The best university in China for getting a job at Goldman Sachs
A few weeks ago, Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein gave a speech to the students at China’s prestigious Tsinghua University. To be precise, he spoke at the university’s School of Economics and Management...
View ArticleSix of the more amazing accounting jobs in Singapore and Hong Kong now
You want a new accounting job within the finance sector in Singapore or Hong Kong – and you want one that won’t be offshored and that will use your numbering-crunching skills in exciting ways. We’ve...
View ArticleWhy I quit my Credit Suisse trading job for a fintech start-up
While investment banks wax lyrical about their new employer brands and “values and beliefs”, many leaving the industry say it’s just not ‘fun’ any more. Nikolay Storonsky joined Lehman Brothers’...
View ArticleSix scientifically validated tricks to make recruiters love your CV
Something is wrong with your CV. You are dispatching it for hundreds of job applications and you are getting nowhere fast. Before reworking it with in Comic Sans with a fancy border (inadvisable), you...
View ArticleDeutsche Bank just delivered this verdict on the best banking jobs as we go...
Are you looking for a new job in investment banking? You’re in luck, as long as you’re not trying for a job in asset backed securitization (ABS) or high yield – both areas which were seeming snazzy not...
View ArticleActually, Morgan Stanley is hiring more in equities than fixed income
When it comes to fixed income currencies and commodities (FICC) sales and trading, Morgan Stanley is more vacillatory than a Greek faced with an impossible referendum decision. In the past seven years,...
View Article14 tips for turning an operations internship into a full-time job
Every year large banks hire hundreds of graduates globally into their operations departments – both in major financial centres and in ‘cost effective’ locations from Bournemouth to Bangalore. A large...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: The inexperienced bankers on $175k. Goldman Sachs’ mistake
Next time someone informs you that investment banking has fallen out of favour with young people, and that young people want to become financial technology (‘Fintech’) professionals instead, then be...
View ArticleInvestment banking analysts have a 20% chance of making it to managing director
Would you toil away for 14 years in investment banking for a 20% chance of making it to managing director – a level at which your compensation will, on average, be double that of the previous director...
View ArticleThe brinksmanship in compliance recruitment
There’s a game of cat and mouse being played in the compliance recruitment market. On the one side, you have expansionary banks and recruiters offering perks and big pay rises to top compliance staff...
View ArticleWhy 20-something bankers in Singapore and Hong Kong don’t get hired
Junior Asian financial professionals are in demand. Banks in Hong Kong are beefing up their analyst ranks with Mandarin speakers, while banks in Singapore are focused on hiring young local talent. But...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Fixed income fear at Deutsche Bank despite strategy delay
Deutsche Bank’s new CEO John Cryan has delayed implementing its new strategy until late October, but this is unlikely to provide a lifeline to its employees. Deutsche doesn’t have the “luxury” of...
View ArticleHow swollen is Deutsche Bank really?
Deutsche Bank’s new CEO says the German bank is “swollen.” Its technology is “inadequate,” its structure is “complex”, it’s “inward looking and bureaucratic,” it no longer has the “luxury” of relying...
View ArticleYou’re 35 years-old and want to leave finance. This woman can help
Victoria Macpherson knows about finance and she knows about finance professionals. She was a fixed income salesperson at SocGen and BNP Paribas for nearly 10 years, and she was a fixed income...
View ArticleEx-traders try to crowdfund new lives
Kweku Adoboli has not taken our advice. Instead of earning tens of thousands a week on the public speaking circuit, he’s settled for less than ten pounds a day on a crowdfunding website. Adoboli...
View ArticleThe ultimate guide to investment banking internships in Hong Kong
The latest batch of interns are about to start their stints at various investment banks in Hong Kong in the coming few months. If you are a student in Asia with aspirations make it in Asian investment...
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If Goldman Sachs paid like the FCA
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is putting its annual report about. Therein lies some interesting information, especially on the way that the UK finance regulator pays its own staff....
View ArticleThe weirdest interview questions (allegedly) asked to junior investment bankers
Investment banking recruiters want to seriously test their junior recruits during the interview process. More often than not, this involves the infamous ‘brain-teasers’, but these are gradually being...
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The best banking jobs when you’re 35+
If you’ve passed your 35th birthday and you’re looking for a new job in finance, you might be finding it tough. Like it or not, banks prefer the young and inexperienced to the old and expensive....
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Unlikely new destination for Asian investment bankers
If you’re an investment banker in Asia, and especially if you’re one with Chinese clients, you might now want to consider sending your CV to…ANZ. While ANZ is a strong player in corporate and...
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