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The ideal time to find a new finance job in London this year
Wherever you are in the world, 2016 is turning out to be a tough year for finding a new job in finance. However, if you work in the City of London it’s turning out tougher than most. Some global torpor...
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“Illness forced me out of Goldman Sachs, now I teach bankers ‘body...
First investment banks tried to instil resilience in their employees. Then, mindfulness was brought into large financial services organisations in an attempt to combat stress. Now, if this former...
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Bonfire of the brilliant traders at SocGen
Like every other bank on the planet, SocGen is dispensing with senior people in its fixed income business. The French bank said last month that it planned to get rid of 90 jobs from its trading...
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Nine golden rules for getting a promotion on Wall Street (if you’re lucky)
Investment banking is an up or out industry – either you climb the corporate ladder or you get off. More likely, you fall off.The promotion process is something you learn how to navigate while you are...
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One chart summing up the decline of Barclays and Deutsche Bank
You’ve probably heard already: Deutsche Bank’s FX business is no longer the best in the business. It’s no longer even the second best in the business, or the third: it’s the fourth. And Barclays’ whose...
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BSI bankers in Singapore to get EFG jobs but some may not stay in them for long
BSI bankers in Singapore are set to move to EFG as their firm is forced to shut down in the city state following a money-laundering scandal. But that doesn’t mean all of them will be happy at their new...
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13 things you need to know before you move to Hong Kong
You’re being relocated to a finance job Hong Kong – how do you ensure that your move goes smoothly and that you hit the ground running in your new role?We asked expatriate finance professionals to...
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Morning Coffee: Deutsche Bank will be hiring for these doomed jobs. The most...
Want to work for Deutsche Bank? Be warned: there’s not much in the way of hiring going on at the German bank. CEO John Cryan told J.P. Morgan’s analysts that parts of Deutsche are subject to a “hiring...
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Why banking jobs won’t come back until June 2017: a little chart
If you’re gearing up to find yourself a new job in the second half of 2016, then you might want to avert your eyes from the chart below, produced by analysts at Bernstein Research. If their chart is...
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Former Blackrock managing director joins small investment firm based in the...
If you’ve been working in the upper ranks of the world’s biggest asset manager and are bumped out during a management reshuffle, you might fancy a change of scene.So it is with Arno Kitts, the former...
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Why Millennials want to work in finance, and why they don’t
Do millennials want to work in financial services? It’s a question that employers would dearly love to know the answer to as they replace older workers with cheaper juniors and roll out schemes to keep...
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“Five things that change forever when you leave Goldman Sachs for a start-up”
If you leave Goldman Sachs, people will call you crazy. If you leave Goldman to found your own fintech company, people will say you’ve lost your mind. They might have a point.Two years ago, I left my...
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Meet the most impressive 21 year-olds starting out in banking
You already know that you need to be excellent to get into banking: that you need exemplary exam results and more internships than previously thought humanly possible. But what if you also need to be...
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A Deutsche Bank technologist has made something very special
Do you want to earn extra money while you work without having to do too much? A little side-project that doesn’t keep you up all night, keep you busy all weekend, or involving dealing with people?...
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Citi’s Singapore CEO explains how to get a graduate job at the bank
Citi is one of the latest recruiters of students and graduates in the Singapore banking sector. In 2015, for example, more than 350 interns passed through its ranks and a similar number are expected...
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Seven Singapore and Hong Kong jobs that banks just can’t find candidates for
Some global firms are cutting banking jobs in Asia, but that doesn’t mean there’s a glut of candidates on the market across all functions.In fact, finance recruiters in Singapore and Hong Kong say some...
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Morning Coffee: But how will Goldman Sachs identify its worst performers now?...
It’s an annual ritual: every year, Goldman Sachs identifies the 1,850 of its employees who are performing worst than the rest and shows them the door. It’s the dinging of the 5% and everyone knows of...
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Another senior fixed income sales exit at Credit Suisse. Desk assistant finds...
It’s a bad time to be a senior fixed income salesperson. Especially if you’re in the macro business at Credit Suisse.As we’ve noted previously, Credit Suisse has fully dismembered its London-rates...
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Corporate buzzwords investment bankers use, but secretly hate
When you get into an investment bank you will receive two types of education. First, you will learn all there is to know about the technical aspects of finance. Then, you immerse yourself into the...
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Ex-Brevan Howard partner and Goldman MD to launch FX brokerage
James Fauset, a former FX portfolio manager and strategist at Brevan Howard who left in January, is set to launch his own FX brokerage.Fauset has just started as head of FX agency business at COEX...
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