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Private bankers in Asia face a big new stress – and it’s not compliance
There’s already enough for private bankers in Asia to worry about – profit margins are tightening, firms are merging and the compliance burden is growing. But a new trend could soon make their lives...
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Morning Coffee: 41 year-old J.P. Morgan FX salesman paid $1.4m in London....
The good thing about court cases involving bankers is that they often involve pay numbers. Even better, those pay figures have usually been substantiated by the courts. The latest case to fall into...
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Moore Capital is losing former SAC Capital portfolio managers as Point72...
When Steve Cohen’s SAC Capital closed its London office in November 2013, Moore Capital Management was quick to capitalise. It hired a nine-strong investment team of portfolio managers and analysts....
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Morgan Stanley fixed income professionals are getting rehired
Remember Morgan Stanley’s fixed income redundancies? Remember how, back in December, Morgan Stanley shocked the world by parting company with 25% of its fixed income professionals globally? Some of...
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These investment banks have the most to lose from a Brexit
If investment banks start shifting jobs out of the UK in the wake of a Brexit, Paris has the potential to benefit more than any other financial centre. As a proportion of headcount, EU citizens from...
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Seven more of Nomura’s ex-equity researchers are reemployed
Nomura’s closure of its equities business was a comparatively recent event – happening only two months ago. Nonetheless, plenty of Nomura’s top equity researchers seem to be finding new jobs...
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6 signs a sell-side professional will fail after moving to the buy-side
For every success story of an investment banker or market maker who moves over to the buy-side and climbs the ladder, there are tales of sell-side professionals who make the leap to a mutual fund shop,...
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“I’m a junior banker and I live with my parents”
I’m an analyst with a top U.S. investment bank in London. I’ve worked here for two years since leaving university and travel between London and New York to liaise with our clients. I’m probably earning...
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The ultimate guide to risk management salaries and bonuses in Singapore
More risk management jobs are opening up in Singapore as banks hire staff to tackle a growing range of risks and an ever-changing regulatory burden.As a result, risk professionals in the city state are...
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Hong Kong job losses spread from trading to investment banking as BAML, GS...
Investment banks in Hong Kong usually wrap up any annual job cuts in the immediate period after bonuses are paid. Expect this year to be a more drawn out affair.“Every single bank I have spoken to in...
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Morning Coffee: 24-year-old junior bankers get to play boss. The man making...
Forget a couple of hours ‘personal time’ or Friday nights off, Barclays isn’t messing around when it comes to handing its junior bankers more power.Barclays already has a scheme in place that allows...
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The 10 best London finance jobs post-Brexit
Maybe it will happen. Maybe Britain will leave the European Union. If you work in the City of London, you’re probably hoping that the morning of 24 June will bring a repudiation of the Brexit concept...
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Nine reasons you can’t get a job on Wall Street
Are you trying to get a job on Wall Street? In the current climate of cost-cutting, especially among large investment banks, it can be a frustrating experience.Here are the top reasons that you keep...
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Morgan Stanley associate demonstrates optimal method of moving to private equity
Analysts and associates in investment banks like to move into private equity (PE) jobs. However, as we are never slow to point out, doing so is hard. – Private equity funds are small compared to...
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“How the CFA helped me move from investment banking to private equity”
The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification is a badge of honour on the buy-side and a must-have for equity researchers. It’s less common in investment banking and even less prevalent in the...
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How to be an entrepreneur, by Blankfein, Buffett, Bloomberg and Dorsey
Goldman Sachs has no problems attracting applications – 250,000 people tried to get on to its graduate scheme alone this year, and queues of people tried to get into other banks too. But for all the...
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All sorts of senior people have left Cantor Fitzgerald in London
It’s not so long ago that Cantor Fitzgerald was hiring for its office in London. This appears to have changed. Since the December 2015, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority Register indicates that 10%...
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The highest paying investment banking internships in Singapore
Summer interns should, in theory, be focused on one thing as they play at being bankers: nailing down a full-time job offer for the following year. But doing a front-office internship in an investment...
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Morning Coffee: Ex-top UBS FICC structurer now penniless and unemployed....
If you’re worried about what might happen if you lose your job in banking, you probably don’t want to dwell too long on the case of Amit Goyal, the former (global) head of FICC strategies structuring...
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Morgan Stanley investment banking MDs find interesting new investment careers
There’s more evidence that senior investment bankers who left Morgan Stanley late last year are finding new employment in interesting vocations.For a start, Mark Glengarry, a managing director in its...
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