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Where in the world Goldman Sachs and JPM are 2nd tier
Information provider Dealogic has released its overview of banks’ performance across M&A, equity capital markets (ECM), debt capital markets (DCM) and syndicated loans in the first quarter of 2014....
View ArticleMorning Coffee: UBS hires JPMorgan’s compensation expert. Finance jobs for...
JPMorgan is (possibly) in shock. Matthew Small, a long-serving and senior compensation and benefits professional at the bank is quitting. Small is leaving JPMorgan in New York and is off to join UBS in...
View ArticleNine key skills that will ensure finance recruiters call you
The theory is that the financial services job market is heating up. Recruiters are hiring people for expansionary reasons for the first time in three years, and optimism has returned to the sector –...
View ArticleLehman’s multi-million dollar investment banker is dedicating his life to art...
Benoit Savoret is an investment banking rainmaker of the old school mould. As COO at Lehman Brothers in 2008, he famously negotiated a $16.2m guaranteed bonus three days before the bank’s collapse by...
View ArticleThere have been all these weird exits from Credit Suisse in the past few weeks
People are leaving Credit Suisse in London. We don’t why. We don’t know whether they have new jobs to go to. We don’t know whether they were disappointed with Credit Suisse’s eternally complex bonuses...
View ArticleRegulators fleeing as they join bankers in grievances over pay
For months now, banks have been complaining both publicly and privately about how mandates on pay have caused undue turnover. Now, in a bit of irony, regulators that oversee big banks and have...
View ArticleAnnuities professionals fearing for their futures told it’s all ok
It is now six days since British annuities professionals were dealt a fearsome blow in the British budget. One moment they worked in an industry bolstered by a regulatory requirement stating that...
View ArticleBulge bracket bankers slay boutiques in bonus war
While boutique banks typically offer a better work-life balance than larger bulge bracket competitors, come payday, they tend to fall short. At least they did in 2013. Despite facing stricter...
View ArticleShock as banks in Asia target front-office candidates for back-office roles
There’s a back-office banking job in Singapore right now that is so sought after that banks are increasingly asking recruiters to find them front-office people to fill it. That job is…internal audit....
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The sorry tale of the senior UBS equities banker and the orange Ferrari
Let Jason Barron, head of financing services at UBS, be a warning to anyone in banking (or elsewhere) who thinks that they can present themselves in a foolish way online and that the incident won’t...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: JPMorgan says it wants robots, not humans. How banking...
Robots have many advantages over humans when it comes to trading. They are faster, less fallible, and are increasingly human beings’ preferred method of executing trades. This is why JPMorgan won’t be...
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German banks look like the worst payers
U.S. investment banks, with their traditional generosity and easy side-step of the EU bonus cap rules, have long been the place to earn the biggest big bonuses in London, while their European...
View ArticleBNP Paribas rescues senior fixed income trader from Morgan Stanley
Simon Birch, a senior FX trader at Morgan Stanley, is understood to have joined BNP Paribas in a senior EMEA fixed income trading role. A colleague of Birch’s confirmed his departure of Morgan Stanley....
View ArticleIs Teach First really an alternative route into a graduate job at Goldman Sachs?
What do you do if you wanted to work at Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, or another well known bank when you left university, but you didn’t get in? Of course, you could always choose to do a Masters in...
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Whisky zut alors! Jérôme Kerviel’s boss now runs a distillery
Jérôme Kerviel has a new life away from the financial sector, much of which involves taking long contemplative walks during a two-month charity hike before his three-year prison term for his part in...
View ArticleThe three styles of interview questions asked by investment banks
As we mentioned last week, we recently came across an old investment banking recruitment guide from UBS. While it’s from 2010, there are a number of useful tips that can help win over any bank in the...
View ArticleCareer Crunch: How to fit in at Goldman Sachs, the workaholic lives of former...
Catch up on the top stories on eFinancialCareers over the past seven days. The ideal background for working at Goldman Sachs What do the current Goldman Sachs employees tell you about what it takes to...
View ArticleNine ways to snare a job in Singapore’s three expanding local banks
Singaporean banks are both expanding their headcounts and increasing their ability to attract the best candidates – a rare example of equilibrium in the Asian banking job market. Recruiters in...
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Finance skills shortage looms as firms create jobs and candidates stay put
Financial services organisations in the UK are hiring again at a reasonably rapid rate. If the new-found appetite for recruitment continues, there could be 26,000 more employed in financial services by...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Where to find the 26,000 new finance jobs. Don’t delude...
Big news! There are 26,000 more financial services jobs in the UK this year than there were last year. So say today’s figures from the UK’s quarterly CBI/PwC survey. Now all that you need to do is to...
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