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Interview questions at PWC, Deloitte, KPMG and EY. The definitive list
You’re interviewing with one (or all) of the Big Four accountancy firms. Based upon the experiences of those who’ve been before you and the advice of the firms themselves, you need to be prepared to...
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Morning Coffee: Market turmoil triggers Asian hiring spree at Credit Suisse
The recent turmoil in Chinese and Asian stock markets hasn’t been entirely bad news for financial professionals in Asia. As we reported earlier this week, an influx of mainland money into Hong Kong is...
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J.P. Morgan appoints new China IB head, two senior bankers leave Coutts
There have been some key moves in the Asia-Pacific region over the past week, these are the ones you need to know about. J.P.Morgan announced new head of global IB for China Houston Huang, a prominent...
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Why trading jobs are boring. Why senior staff are worth it
When Brian Moynihan presented at the Barclays Global Financial Conference yesterday, he didn’t just say that fixed income trading revenues are down and equities trading revenues are “up strongly” in...
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The most unwanted people in global finance
The confirmation that Deutsche Bank is indeed ‘scaling back’ its Russian investment banking unit and making 200 of its 1,300 Moscow-based staff redundant marks the end of an era for Russian bankers....
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What to expect at an investment banking assessment centre
You’ve got through your online application for a graduate job at an investment bank and you’ve steamed your way through the initial interview rounds. Now comes the really challenging part of your path...
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Graduate and internship application deadlines for banks in Singapore and Hong...
If you’re after a graduate job or summer internship at a global bank in Singapore or Hong Kong in 2016, you generally have only a few more weeks (or in some cases, days) in which to apply. As the...
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Morning Coffee: The weird new hiring wants of Goldman Sachs. J.P. Morgan’s...
If you’re a university student with aspirations to work for Goldman Sachs, you might be thinking about completing some internships with the firm, heading up your university finance club, running a few...
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Meet 10 impressive new analysts in IBD at Credit Suisse
It goes without saying that if you want to break into the front office of an investment bank now, you need to be academically excellent and have the sort of enthusiasm to pursue your finance career...
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Jamie Dimon suggested J.P. Morgan wants to grow here in Europe
Where’s J.P. Morgan falling behind? If you look at the most recent Coalition league table, you might be tempted to say cash equities sales and trading, where the bank ranks third globally. However,...
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You want to be a top trader? Forget banks. Forget hedge funds. Try this
Where are the most exciting opportunities for trading professionals now? If senior traders’ recent migration out of banks is anything to go by, they’re not necessarily in other banks and they’re not...
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These are the jobs you’ll really do when you’ve passed CFA I, II and III
Will passing the extremely laborious CFA Institute exams really make much difference to your finance career? While headhunters are equivocal on the subject, the eFinancialCareers resume database...
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The nine easiest finance jobs to secure in Singapore and Hong Kong now
If you’re looking for a finance job in Singapore or Hong Kong your search is unlikely to be entirely straight forward. We’re heading into the fourth quarter – a time when banks batten down the hatches...
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Morning Coffee: The secret stress of MDs in M&A. Safest bankers in the world...
We’ve suggested before that being an MD in M&A isn’t everything it’s supposed to be. – That it’s not all business class flights and exotic lounges. That, actually, working as an MD in M&A might...
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Don’t burn out before your 30th birthday, bankers share advice
Banking has always been a marathon rather than a sprint, but now it’s becoming more of a Marathon des Sables than a pound across the pavements. For all the efforts to curtail them, working hours in...
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Students with low salary expectations will steal bankers’ jobs, redux
If you’ve been reading this column a lot, you’ll be familiar with the notion that banks are waiting to jettison all their awkward senior staff with their awkward memories of being paid $$$ and to...
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Morning Coffee: HSBC and ANZ pursue different Asian agendas
They’re both Western headquartered banks with a big Asian presence, but employees at HSBC in Asia will be feeling decidedly more content than their counterparts at ANZ right now. HSBC may be cutting...
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Six people who beat you to a graduate banking job in Singapore
If you’re applying for a 2016 graduate job at an investment bank in Singapore you had better be quick – deadlines are looming. But before you apply you also need to know what kind of experience and...
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What it’s really like inside Level 39, Europe’s biggest Fintech accelerator
It might be coincidence that Level 39, the self-proclaimed ‘largest technology accelerator for finance, retail, cyber-security and future cities technology’ in Europe, looks down on the London offices...
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Nomura just hired this trader from Citi and Brevan Howard
Nomura is still hiring. Fresh from hiring a lot of senior traders earlier this month and firing a lot of senior traders in August, it’s continuing to add staff in London. The latest addition is Leith...
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