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Hundreds of London bankers compete for low paid trading jobs in Dublin
Remember when Credit Suisse said it was moving 40 prime brokerage trading jobs from London to Dublin? Dublin-based recruiters say those jobs are now filled, and that they weren’t filled with existing...
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This is what your investment banking salary should be in Singapore
Do you work in M&A or capital markets in Singapore? Are you looking to see how your investment banking salary and bonus stack up to help you decide whether you might be better off at another firm?...
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300% more pay, bigger clients, less red tape: why I left an Asian bank to...
When I graduated from university I narrowly missed out on a job at my dream employer – a large US bank in Singapore. But I was lucky enough to secure a role in corporate banking at one of the...
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Morning Coffee: The ex-hippy who started an investment bank during a crisis....
With Brexit bleakness taking hold, now’s the time to look for some inspiring stories of success in terrible conditions and Ken Moelis – the previously bandana-sporting investment banker who launched...
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How to land a London banking job now
However unsettled the City of London has been by the result of last week’s referendum and whether or not banks move thousands of jobs overseas, finance hiring in London has not stopped. Surprisingly –...
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“Brexit just made life a whole lot more complicated for FinTech start-ups”
As the CEO of a FinTech start-up, I’m used to dealing with threats to the existence of my company. It’s the nature of the business that you have to fight for survival. – Factors are out of your...
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How you should respond to these weird Wall Street job interview questions
While some Wall Street interviewers go by the book when it comes to asking candidates questions, others try to keep financial services job-seekers on their toes by throwing them curve balls. Some Wall...
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London banking recruiters excited about hiring internationally again
Brexit may mean thousands of banking jobs leave London. It may mean that people who are looking for jobs this summer need to cut their pay expectations. It may even mean that European bankers living in...
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Machine learning expert leaves Millennium Capital for quant university
A senior quant at Millennium Capital Management in London has left the firm to teach machine learning at WorldQuant University. Hammad Khan, a managing director and quant portfolio manager at...
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Advice for students panicking about banking careers post-Brexit
You’ve spent years working towards your first job in an investment bank. You’ve beaten tens of thousands of other students to an internship. And now, this. What next? If you listen to the doomsters,...
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Pity the ex-Lehman bankers at Barclays, battered twice over
Brexit has been cruel to everyone who owns stock in a British bank, but to no one nowhere has it been more cruel than to the ex-Lehman Brothers bankers working for Barclays in the U.S. Since the result...
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This job promotion in Asian banking comes with a 50%+ failure rate
Any promotion in the finance sector has its challenges – but if you’re an Asian priority banker who’s just become a private banker your chances of succeeding in your new job are less than 50%. In an...
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“I no longer feel welcome here”: Asian finance students worried about working...
Asian finance students in the UK say the fallout from the Brexit vote will make it much more difficult for them to get banking jobs in London when they graduate. They also say the anti-immigrant...
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Morning Coffee: Bank’s Brexit layoffs begin, and they’re not all in London....
It has begun. A bank has made some layoffs and implied that those layoffs might have something to do with Britain voting to leave the European Union. That bank is UBS. Andrea Orcel, chief executive of...
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Actually, most London bankers would prefer to work in….Amsterdam
UK-based investment bankers don’t want to work in Frankfurt. If finance professionals are forced to move out of London in the wake of Brexit, there’s one clear favourite choice – Amsterdam. Investment...
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Morgan Stanley’s 2 charts explaining why Brexit isn’t Lehman
For all the worrisome statements by senior bankers suggesting the UK’s vote is worse than Lehman, it’s not. There hasn’t been a systemic meltdown. Barclays’ has ‘stood down’ its crisis leadership...
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Jefferies just hired a load more people in equities
If you ask London finance recruiters about the general state of the post-Brexit job market, they’ll all say pretty much the same thing: existing vacancies aren’t being pulled, it’s pretty much business...
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Here’s how much Britain is paying its saviour from Goldman Sachs now
Mark Carney may not be popular with the likes of Nigel Farage, but in a country somewhat lacking in leadership, he has at least been out and about offering messages of reassurance to the markets. For...
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How to get a graduate job at J.P. Morgan in the U.S.
Graduate recruitment at J.P. Morgan in the U.S. is changing. It’s targeting students on Snapchat, interviewing them virtually and using as much social media as possible to reach a broad range of...
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The optimist’s guide to Brexit: 7 reasons why it may not be so bad for...
The dust is settling. Nearly a week has passed since the sky fell in and some people in the City of London are poking their heads out their bunkers, only to find that – the sun is still out, sort of....
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