The six hottest boutique investment banks in 2015
Boutique investment banks continue to eat larger firms’ lunch. In the first half of 2015, they accounted for 29% of all M&A deals – and this is down to size of the deals they’re working on, not the...
View ArticleQuestions you will always be asked in a hedge fund interview and how to...
Interviewing at a hedge fund can be an unpleasant experience. Known for testing candidates’ resilience under pressure, hedge funds hire comparatively few people. Therefore, they’re either looking for...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: We don’t need “robo” bankers, says Citi boss at start of new...
A plethora of banks have announced expansions in Asian wealth management so far this year – Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse started the ball rolling in March, while DBS revealed earlier this month...
View ArticleThe five banks to apply to first if you want a middle-office job in Asia
If you’re looking for a risk or compliance job in Asia and think the ongoing hiring boom means you can take your pick of potential new employers, think again. We’ve trawled through global banks’...
View ArticleGoldman Sachs is drawing in staff from JPM, MS, UBS and Barclays
Is Goldman Sachs consolidating its position and hiring in ‘top talent’ from rivals? We’re just asking because it’s hired a lot of people over the past month, almost all of whom have come from other...
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Investment banks need nicer people…to be replaced by computers
Investment banks are at a crossroads. The culture remains geared towards bonuses, despite regulatory and political pressure to curb this, reputational issues abound and shareholders continue to...
View ArticleSo you want one of those graduate jobs at Brevan Howard?
Brevan Howard is hiring graduates. So says Bloomberg, which claims the hedge fund has set up something that sounds a lot like a graduate training program in the interest of ‘grooming managers in house’...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Boost for local jobs as Stan Chart shifts power to SG and HK
Standard Chartered may still be a long way off making a decision on whether to shift its headquarters from London to Singapore, but new CEO Bill Winters is planning to “shift capital” to regional hubs,...
View ArticleDoes their mastery of maths make Singaporeans better bankers?
Young people in Singapore are, by and large, very good at maths. The city state ranked first globally for secondary school maths and science results in a May OECD survey, just a month after the...
View ArticleThe quiet hiring spree for Fintech professionals in China
The recent bull-run of China’s stock market has prompted many banks in China to bolster their trading functions, but this has had the knock on effect of increasing demand for technology professionals...
View ArticleGood news for J.P. Morgan people who are moving to Bournemouth
We understand that things aren’t as bad for the J.P. Morgan people who are moving out of London to Bournemouth as they might have been. Recruiters claim they’ve been told that they won’t get a pay cut....
View ArticleSenior partner quits Odey Asset Management after seven years
A partner and former head of research at Odey Asset Management has left the hedge fund after seven years. Jamie Wood, who worked for numerous bank-owned asset management firms before switching into a...
View ArticleRecalibrate your morals to think like a senior banker
Banking leaders are not known for their goodness. In the public imagination, Ken Costa, the ex-UBS and Lazard M&A banker and Christian philanthropist, tends to be eclipsed by the likes of a...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: New entrant looks to hire up to 40 bankers across Asia
It only opened its private banking unit 18 months ago, but Maybank is now ready to ramp up its headcount in Singapore and Greater China. Maybank Private Wealth is “aggressively hiring relationship...
View ArticleRecruiters shocked as junior bankers stick selfies on CVs
Finance professionals in Hong Kong and Singapore have long been fond of slapping a picture of themselves at the top of their CVs – recruiters say roughly half of resumes in the two cities include a...
View ArticleWhy Mizuho is expanding in FICC
Most banks are paring bank their fixed income currencies and commodities businesses. Deutsche Bank is expected to make cuts under John Cryan. Credit Suisse is expected to make cuts under Tidjane Thiam....
View ArticleMeet the top Greek investment bankers of the world
This time last year, bankers with Greek clients were busy. “It was booming,” says one senior Greek M&A banker and private equity professional in London, speaking on condition of anonymity. “Now all...
View ArticleThe eight top career switches in investment banking now
Moving from a back office role into a front office position has become something of a pre-crisis, pre-Kweku dream. And yet, changing tack in your career is still possible. These, according to...
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Study this course and get a job at Google or Goldman Sachs
A few months ago, we noticed a trend. People who had worked in finance were going back to college. And once back at college they were studying an unfamiliar kind of course: machine learning. There...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Singapore bankers shed tears as they talk through their troubles
Banking isn’t renowned as an industry in which colleagues like sharing their woes with each other – unless they relate to falling stock prices or compliance breaches. But in Singapore OCBC is...
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