These are the Chinese securities firms hiring in Hong Kong
The “Shanghai-Hong Kong stock connect” is expected to push China’s equity market to record highs. It also opens up possibilities for mainlanders to invest in the HK stock market. For mainland Chinese...
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This is why you fail the CFA exams
Tomorrow is CFA exam day. An impressive 159,889 candidates from 174 countries have registered to take the exam. Around 20% won’t turn up. At least 40% of those who do turn up will fail. Level III is...
View ArticleTen banking jobs that recruiters in Singapore and Hong Kong are now desperate...
Do you want to work in a banking job in Asia that’s causing headaches for headhunters? Do you want to be so sought after that recruiters will do almost anything to get you a job interview? We’ve asked...
View Article10 things that will happen when John Cryan replaces Anshu Jain at Deutsche Bank
After two years at Deutsche Bank and five years in charge of the corporate and investment bank, Anshu Jain is going. He’s being replaced by John Cryan, a corporate financier by trade and the former CFO...
View ArticleWhy I went from Goldman Sachs to a hedge fund to a technology company
Erkin Adylov had the kind of financial services career most people can only aspire to. After leaving university (the London School of Economics), he went to work for Goldman Sachs’ London office as an...
View ArticleThe 20 most desirable jobs in global finance
You want to work in investment banking, hedge funds, or private equity globally. But you don’t want just any job. You want the sort of high paying, high prestige, highly interesting job that will put...
View ArticleTwo very strange things happened during the CFA exams on Saturday
Did you take the CFA exams on Saturday? Did anything slightly odd happen to you? If not, you were lucky. Because strange things did happen, for sure. In LA a man was reportedly seen rollerblading...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Credit Suisse needs more bankers; Chinese brokerages need...
In Asian private banking, it seems that announcing (and reaffirming) your headcount expansion plans on a regular basis is a key way to attract talent. “This is a competitive industry and if you’re not...
View ArticlePost-IPO hiring spree in Hong Kong at China’s Huatai
China’s local securities firms are marching into Hong Kong. They are either are getting listed on Hong Kong’s stock market (this is what GF Securities did in April), or they are expanding their teams...
View ArticleHow to get a banking job at UBS, J.P. Morgan, CS and Citi in Asia without...
The typical route to becoming a relationship manager in Asia’s booming private banking sector involves slogging away in an assistant role for up to six years. But there are other, less tedious, ways...
View ArticleHow to pay off your MBA fees in three years
MBAs still have one incentive for moving into investment banking over other sectors – paying off their fees quicker. For all the talk of an exodus of business school graduates away from financial...
View Article70 top banking interview questions and how to answer them
So you want a new banking job? If your CV doesn’t contain any fatal errors and you get invited for an interview, what should you expect? Below we have the most comprehensive list of banking interview...
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Here’s what’s really happening to HSBC’s investment bank
This morning, HSBC unveiled its ‘Investor Update 2015.’ If you work for the British bank’s ‘Global Banking and Markets’ business (AKA HSBC’s investment bank), it might sound like bad news. After all,...
View ArticleAnshu Jain to live off wife’s moderate income from freelance writing?
Anshu Jain’s finances have taken a nasty turn for the worse. He’s leaving Deutsche at the end of this month and will be paid nothing more for his efforts as a full-time employee. Nor did he pick up the...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Four key areas where HSBC will be hiring in Asia
HSBC Chief Executive Stuart Gulliver didn’t tackle the issue of whether the bank would move its headquarters to Hong Kong during his strategic presentation yesterday (that decision can wait until...
View ArticleWhy nobody wants to work as a banking accountant in Singapore
If you know anything about accounting jobs at banks, you’ll know that most of them go to so-called ‘product controllers’ – the people who keep track of the profit and loss made on banks’ trading desks....
View ArticleHow to convert your IBD internship at Deutsche Bank into a job offer
If you’re heading into Deutsche Bank’s front office for an internship this summer, you should have the eventual goal of converting it into a full-time offer. Internships are the main recruitment...
View ArticleStandard Chartered went on an FX hiring spree before Bill Winters arrived
Today is Bill Winters’ first day at Standard Chartered. The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority Register reveals that Winters’ work officially begins on June 10th, although the Financial Times suggests...
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One chart from Barclays explaining where you need to work in finance
If you’re nervously inclined, you might be worried about the coming liquidity crunch in the bond markets. Bloomberg points out that the size of the US corporate bond market has ballooned by $3.7...
View Article“The CFA is just a hazing ritual for young finance professionals”
Lewis Krell is a former investment analyst turned tech employee and journalist. When his former employer asked him to take CFA Level I, he obliged – to begin with. And then he dropped out and gave up....
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