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Citadel hired a machine learning specialist from Deutsche Bank
Citadel is building its team in London. Christian Hesse, who until this month was working in a hybrid sales trader and quant role at Deutsche Bank, just joined the hedge fund as a quantitative...
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Top SocGen equity derivatives salesman said to join J.P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan has reportedly recruited Alexandre Houpert from SocGen. Headhunters say Houpert has joined the U.S. bank as head of pan-European retail structured product sales. The role didn’t previously...
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Want to work in management consulting? Here’s how much you’ll make at...
Maybe you’re a student or recent graduate who aspires to a career in management consulting. Or perhaps you’re working in another sector and considering a change. Or you could be a seasoned management...
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12 interview questions you’ll be asked by BlackRock and how to answer them
BlackRock, like most large financial institutions, is over-subscribed with applicants for its available jobs. Assuming you make the cut and end up at an interview, what questions can you expect? Here...
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Britons in the City of London disproportionately likely to do low-end jobs
If you want to work in an investment bank, chances are that you want to work in the so-called ‘front office.’ – That you want to do sales and trading, or M&A, or capital markets. – Something that...
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EY recruiting 7,500 graduates and interns across Asia, and targeting STEM...
EY is recruiting about 7,500 graduates and interns combined in Asia for jobs starting next year, says the firm’s Asian HR head.This number will be split roughly 50/50 between grads and interns. Greater...
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Morning Coffee: J.P. Morgan, Goldman horrid to traders. Barclays learns to...
Fixed income sales and trading jobs have long been some of the most remunerated in investment banks. This is still so: last month pay benchmarking firm Emolument put pay for fixed income traders up to...
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The best universities for getting a job at Morgan Stanley in the U.S, Europe...
Like most investment banks, Morgan Stanley only hires a select few applicants – 2%, if you want to make it on to an internship alone. And, in-keeping with its peers Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan, those...
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As Dimon warns of Brexit cuts, J.P. Morgan hires in Israel
If Britain leaves the European Union, jobs at J.P. Morgan will be at risk. So will say Jamie Dimon when he speaks to J.P. Morgan’s 4,000 employees in Bournemouth sometime today. In fact, UK jobs at...
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Julia programming language: this is the new skill hedge funds are asking for
Traders and other financial services professionals who know how to code have a leg up on less tech-savvy candidates, as there are an increasing number of jobs available to them as banks and asset...
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The layoffs in Goldman Sachs’ IBD division are pretty gentle
This time last week, Bloomberg reported that Goldman Sachs is letting go of, “dozens of managing directors, executive directors and vice presidents across the mergers and debt and equity capital...
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What’s the front office, the middle office and the back office in an...
If you’re thinking of applying for a graduate job in an investment bank, you’ve probably come across the terms, ‘front office’, ‘middle office’ and ‘back office’ as descriptors for the kinds of jobs...
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Bank of East Asia securities staff will struggle to find new jobs following cuts
Equities staff laid off by Bank of East Asia (BEA) in Hong Kong will struggle to find new roles as they enter the job market following a string of similar layoffs at larger firms.BEA is closing its...
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Where to find Asian operations and IT jobs at BAML, Deutsche, MS and others
Where should you look if you’re applying for an operations or IT job at a global bank in Asia? Despite the rise of back-office hubs in countries like the Philippines (and the need for banks to keep...
View ArticleThe MFIN degree that gives you the X-factor skill you now need to succeed in...
In 2014 Divine Kaur was moving rapidly up the ranks of the corporate finance department at GE, but looking back she admits she wasn’t quite equipped with all the skills she needed to become a...
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Morning Coffee: Transpires it’s way harder to get into Goldman than you...
If you don’t think it’s hard to get into Goldman Sachs, you’re either a blind optimist or some sort of uber-student with an unfeasible academic pedigree. Even if you do think it’s hard to get into...
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Citi just hired Paul Marchington, UBS’s EMEA head of synthetic equity sales
Murray Roos, co-head of global equities at Citi, is still hiring. The U.S. bank has just poached Paul Marchington, former head of EMEA synthetic equity sales at UBS. Citi says Marchington will be...
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Hedge funds and private equity firms in a battle for asset-raisers
Hedge funds and private equity firms might be struggling currently, but there’s one part of the business where demand for skills remains high. Sales, marketing, distribution and capital-raising...
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CFA exam takers fearful of whimsical tyrants on $15 an hour
Imagine sitting in a room with thousands of other people where you’re only allowed to look up and down, where you’re not sure if you can stretch, where someone in the room might subsequently report you...
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36% of students joining Goldman Sachs leave in 2 years
As we noted earlier, getting into Goldman Sachs out of university is very, very hard. It seems that fewer than 2% of those who apply are accepted. However, our research suggests that a substantial...
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