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This is why you fail the CFA exams
The CFA exams are nothing if not popular. Every year, nearly 200,000 people from hundreds of different countries register to take one. Every year, over 100,000 people will fail. Around 20% of everyone...
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Morning Coffee: The incredible truth about Deutsche Bank’s John Cryan. Best...
Last month, we posted an April Fool’s article suggesting that John Cryan, CEO of Deutsche Bank, was having an image makeover. We take that back. Two journalists for German paper Handelsblatt were...
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Six exciting new UK finance firms that could hire you
Working for a start-up doesn’t just mean switching out of banking into fintech. While large investment banks cut back, some senior financiers are launching their own hedge funds, investment managers...
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Why was Nomura paying a £310k salary to a mid-ranking rates salesman?
Nomura’s fixed income sales and trading business is not doing very well. In the first quarter of 2016, revenues there fell 76% compared to the previous year. Nonetheless, if figures from a contemporary...
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Seven tips for acing the Series 7 and other financial exams
Success in the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s General Securities Representative Exam, more commonly known as Series 7, is fundamental to anyone wishing to work in the investment industry in...
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Credit Suisse’s rates business has been decimated as promised
When Tidjane Thiam announced his plan for Credit Suisse last October, he promised to get out of UK macro trading. Seven months later, he’s been true to his word. Ex-Credit Suisse insiders say all but...
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“I quit banking to make films. You probably don’t want to do the same”
If you’re thinking of leaving finance, throwing it all, in and doing something more interesting instead, then Bill Dale’s your man. Dale spent 10 years working in the City of London between 1990 and...
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This is where Citi is hiring in Singapore, says local CEO Han Kwee Juan
Citigroup is expanding in Singapore, but where? To get some answers we went straight to the top and spoke with Han Kwee Juan, chief executive officer of Citibank Singapore. Wealth management As the...
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Morning Coffee: 47 year-old who left banking in 2009 beats younger rivals to...
When Henrik Aslaksen left Deutsche Bank for “unspecified reasons” (joining Credit Suisse) last June, there seemed no shortage of internal candidates to replace him as global head of M&A. At the...
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Top trader turned entrepreneur secures MD role at boutique investment bank
Boutique investment bank Oppenheimer & Co has just hired Christopher Knight as a managing director in its London office, focusing on emerging market fixed income sales. Knight joined from BTG...
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Goldman partner who allegedly paid £500k to attract his wife, retires aged 41
Goldman Sachs’ fixed income partners are retiring en mass this year. The latest to leave in London is said to be Yann Samuelides, the 41 year-old Goldman partner who headed the bank’s fixed income,...
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The perfect CV for a career in trading
If anyone needs a highly polished CV these days, it’s traders in investment banking. Large institutions are cutting back in both equities and fixed income currencies and commodities and the typical...
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Brexit or not, a junior banker in London explains why he’s going back to Milan
We caught up with ‘Antonio’, a young Italian banker who’s spent the past few years in London and who recently left the City for Milan. Antonio isn’t his real name – he only agreed to speak to us off...
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6 reasons Deutsche analysts suggest your fixed income job is doomed in 2016
If you work in fixed income and are waiting for markets to rebound so that you can be assured of keeping your job in 2016 and maybe even, possibly, getting a bonus, you probably don’t want to read the...
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This is how your pay will shrink in investment banking, asset management,...
If you work in financial services, your overall compensation is most likely about to change, but it’s not going to be moving in the direction you’d like, regardless of whether you work on the buy-side...
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More Asian equities jobs in jeopardy as BNP Paribas cuts
More job cuts are expected in Hong Kong equities as BNP Paribas becomes the latest bank to wield the axe. The French firm is cutting more than a dozen equities roles in Hong Kong. Barclays, Deutsche...
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The 10 Hong Kong banking jobs with the biggest pay rises
While large pay rises are rare in the current employment market in the Hong Kong financial sector, there are notable expectations. We asked recruiters in Hong Kong to reveal the main job functions in...
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Morning Coffee: Are European investment banks really losers? Hiring the Tom...
European investment banks have not just lost the battle with their U.S. counterparts, they’re losing the war. U.S. banks are beating them on their own turf, European firms are pulling back from entire...
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CFA vs. MBA: Which qualification for which banking job?
Do you really need a £70k MBA to boost your career prospects in finance? No. Then do you need to spend 300 hours studying for each three levels of the CFA Charter? No. But if you do, it may help. Based...
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Essential skills that will keep you employed on Wall Street until 2026 and...
While 10 years might not seem so long in the course of a lifetime, a decade may as well be an eternity when it comes to the financial services job market. Professionals across the sell-side and the...
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