Morning Coffee: Low-key banker retires in high style. Difference between...
If you were you asked to name one of banking’s biggest beneficiaries of the past decade, you probably wouldn’t look to Standard Chartered for your candidate. If so, you’d be missing a trick: Mike Rees,...
View ArticleJ.P. Morgan’s head of inflation trading has left to invest in tech and energy...
If you’re a senior trader in an investment bank these days and have no ambition to work on the buy-side, your options are limited. Moving on from the sector means trying your hand at something new,...
View ArticleThe unsafe places at UBS, BNP Paribas and HSBC
The first quarter is not going well for investment banks. In case there were any doubt of this, you only need to look at the presentation slides accompanying BNP Paribas’ Q1 presentation today: ‘Very...
View ArticleNine ways to cement your relationship with a recruiter
Whether or not you prefer working with a recruiter during your job search, you have to admit that the good ones can open career opportunities that would otherwise be closed to you. So how do you cement...
View ArticleDeutsche Bank discovers how to get paid more at Credit Suisse
If you’ve been put off working for Credit Suisse by last week’s Wall Street Journal revelations of chaos in the fixed income division, or by CEO Tidjane Thiam’s admonition that everyone must stay calm...
View Article“You should have no reason to leave Goldman Sachs”
So, Joshua Bright decided to leave Goldman Sachs because he didn’t want to upset his team by moving internally? Joshua’s career choices are his own, but as someone else who works for GS in London. I’d...
View ArticleYoung private bankers now making their mark in Hong Kong
Achieving career success in private banking in Hong Kong doesn’t always take decades – it’s possible to make your mark in your 30s or even late 20s. We’ve looked at public profiles of relationship...
View ArticleDBS hires 622 as pay continues to climb at Singapore banks
DBS and OCBC have been hiring in large numbers over the past year, and not just to replace departing employees – their total headcounts are on the up. In the 12 months to 31 March, staffing numbers at...
View ArticleThe bureaucrats between you and your new banking job
As a headhunter who’s built a career finding top talent for top banks on both sides of the Atlantic, I know a bit about the cyclicity of investment banking. – The good times don’t last and the bad...
View Article‘Sprinkle bonuses’– the new thing for elite investment banking juniors
Junior bankers are not happy with their bonuses. Despite a 20% increase in salaries over the past year, disappointing bonuses for analysts and associates have caused some disgruntlement. A small...
View ArticleThe best places to network on Wall Street
These are the best places to network with New York City’s bankers, asset managers, hedge funders, private equity mavens and other finance professionals who could help to further your career. Industry...
View ArticleNow Credit Suisse is laying off equities professionals too
The year has turned sour for equities professionals in investment banks. BAML, Citi and Nomura have already laid into their equities businesses. Now we understand that Credit Suisse is doing the same....
View ArticleEx-director at BAML now devoting self entirely to life of Freemasonry
Some people leave banking for fintech. Some leave for venture capital. Some leave for hedge funds. And some, some leave to become…..Freemasons. Such is the case with Karl Debenham. Between November...
View ArticleThis ex-Barclays unit is now hiring over 40 people in Hong Kong and Singapore
As Barclays cuts back in Asia, its former global trust and fiduciary business is ramping up recruitment in the region. ZEDRA, the trust firm founded in January when independent investors bought a...
View ArticleSeven Singapore finance jobs where banks still have to hire from overseas
Global banks in Singapore continue to step up their hiring of local talent – and last month the Singapore government made it tougher for foreign candidates to get employment passes. But Singapore...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: SocGen’s superlative fixed income traders will lose out...
SocGen’s fixed income traders are something special. While fixed income traders at Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Credit Suisse and Nomura all saw revenues plummet...
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...
View ArticleInside Steve Cohen’s Point72 London operation – meet Will Tovey, its new boss
Point72 Asset Management has big plans for its London operation, but right now it’s something of a ghost town. Its plush office in St James’ Square is typical of a Mayfair hedge fund. It has modern art...
View ArticleAnother bank cuts deep into research as Goldman, Credit Suisse hire
Pity the analysts at Haitong Securities, for they have had a horrible time. They arrived at the Chinese bank last May when it bought Espirito Santo’s sinking investment bank. And now, many of them have...
View Article“I was a recruiter for Goldman Sachs. Here’s who they want to hire”
“If you’re thinking of applying to Goldman Sachs, you’re probably anticipating a battle to get hired. You’ve probably read those stories about how the firm only accepts 4% of people. You’ve probably...
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