The bank that’s creating 2,000 jobs in 2014
Bank of China and Singapore’s Fullerton Financial Holdings (wholly owned by the sovereign wealth fund Temasek) jointly established the first BOC Fullerton Community Bank in China in March 2011 in...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: This bank’s building in equities; this bank’s building in...
Some good news about hiring. Following yesterday’s revelation that financial services vacancies were up nearly 40% year-on-year in the City in November, it seems that at least two banks are building...
View ArticleMurder on the dance floor: send us your 2013 financial services Christmas...
Do you work in financial services in London? Are you attending an office Christmas party? Are you able to put your camera or camera phone to good use? If so, send us your covert (or otherwise) shots of...
View ArticleSenior investment banker quits new job after two months for CEO role
At the beginning of October, upon the announcement that he’d been appointed as head of equity capital markets at the National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD), Yasser Geissah was talking up the potential of...
View ArticleA good, simple trick for making yourself far more interesting to finance...
You may have an impeccable CV for a job in banking (or hedge funds, or fund management). But is that enough? If you want to get shortlisted, it will also help if you’re an interesting person with...
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The secret questions only the top 2% of young mathematicians can answer
Think you’re good at maths? Results to the OECD’s ‘Programme for International Student Assessment’ (PISA) are out today and have been causing upset in Western democracies like the US and the UK, whose...
View Article‘Ironic and Scary’: A brutally honest look at the life of an entry-level...
You’re young and bright-eyed – probably 25 or 26 – and you just lined up your first “real” job interview since graduating from college. You’re sitting down with a bulge-bracket bank to talk about a...
View ArticleDaily Dispatches – Singapore edges out Hong Kong on taxes
Singapore’s tax regime is making it more attractive than Hong Kong for companies and individuals, according to tax experts in the Lion City. The Singapore corporate tax rate in 2013 of 17% is slightly...
View ArticleWhere to expect a jobs boom in Asian investment banking in 2014
If you’re looking for a job in investment banking in China, your search will soon become a whole lot easier thanks to the lifting of a 14-month freeze on initial public offerings. More ECM and...
View ArticleThe 10 most notorious banking Christmas parties past
We posted this article in time for Christmas party season 2012. As it seems equally relevant to Christmas party season 2013, we’d like to draw your attention to it again… As office Christmas party...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: How a $1.75m, 28 year old Goldman trader was ruined by...
While you’ve been going about your daily life, celebrating family occasions, preparing for Christmas, losing hair, the cogs of justice have been churning for badly behaved ex-Goldman Sachs trader Matt...
View ArticleGiant pay packages said to be on offer at the regulator
Has the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) succumbed to market pressure and hiked up compensation? Last time staffing at the UK’s new regulator was mentioned in the press, it was in the context of...
View ArticleHedge fund Marshall Wace ramps up partner pay to £83.6m
Nice work if you can get it – Marshall Wace, the $10.76bn hedge fund, shared £83.6m between its 15 members this year after a surge in profits on 2012. The hedge fund, one of Europe’s largest, has just...
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Key charts from Deutsche Bank’s report forecasting 20,000 investment banking...
Deutsche Bank analysts have just released a massive report full of predictions for investment banks in 2014. Before we go any further, you need to know this: Deutsche is predicting another 20,000...
View ArticleSix reasons why the holiday hiring freeze is a myth
Job seekers and corporate recruiters often say the holidays are slow for hiring, but don’t believe it. As a former search firm recruiter what became evident during this time was getting hired...
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These have been the best banks to work for in equities, FICC and IBD this year
If you work in equities sales and trading, fixed income currencies and commodities (FICC), or maybe just M&A, equity capital markets (ECM) and debt capital markets (DCM) – with the latter triad...
View ArticleAsia’s private banks search globally for staff as competition intensifies
Only a few months ago, recruiters were adamant that to get a job in private banking in Asia, candidates had to speak Mandarin or Cantonese, and they needed to bring deep knowledge of the local market...
View ArticleDaily Dispatches – Australia’s stockmarket listings surge
Things are hotting up in Sydney, and it’s not just the weather. The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) is enjoying a surge in listing applications, according to Bloomberg, with IPOs announced in November...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Senior Morgan Stanley trader who was promised £670k finds...
Let this be a warning to anyone who accepts a counteroffer and doesn’t get it in writing. The papers this morning are filled with the sorry tale of Benjamin Price, a man who spent 12 years at Morgan...
View ArticleQuant hedge funds struggle to hold on to mathematical whizz kids
PhDs working in quantitative hedge funds are considering their career options. After a tough few years for such strategies, some hedge funds have rolled out redundancies, while the job market within...
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