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The highest-paying compliance jobs globally
Compliance professionals in financial services are hot property. Such is the unfulfilled demand that in Asia, banks are turning to unemployed or burned out traders to fill compliance roles and...
View ArticleAcademic identifies the most toxic boss in banking
Daniel Beunza, assistant professor of management at the London School of Economics, has a good story for anyone who happens to be collecting anecdotes on the unpleasantness of bosses in the banking...
View ArticleBlackRock, Schroders hiring in the U.S.; hedge funds adding staff in London
In this week’s hiring roundup, Schroders is building up its investment team, BlackRock stays hyper-active and two London hedge funds are adding staff. Schroders to grow in the U.S. Schroders is looking...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Exhaustion in the City as banks refuse to hire. Here’s how...
People working in the City of London are exhausted. Sallow faced, slack jawed and overwhelmed with lassitude, they drag themselves about wishing only that the banks they work for might hire a few more...
View ArticleAccountant puts investment bankers to shame in ultra-marathon
Financial sector workers have a penchant for ultra-marathons. With their gruelling 56-mile a day schedule tapping into bankers’ masochistic tendencies, the chance to shell out thousands on flash kit...
View ArticleTech workers are just as unhappy as bankers — they just don’t whine as much
Each year, more and more top graduates choose Silicon Valley over Wall Street. The pay is becoming more competitive and the hours aren’t nearly as brutal, they say. Logic would then dictate that...
View ArticleSix signs you have to quit your banking job in the next six months
Your bonus is (probably) in the bank. Should you stay? Should you go? Are you still ‘learning in your job’? Are you still climbing the corporate edifice? How can you determine, quickly, easily and with...
View ArticleBanks clampdown on loophole that allows contractors to pay just 10% tax
Some might say that banks have been slow to clampdown, but offshore umbrella companies – still used by hundreds of contractors in the City to allow them to take home up to 90% of their income – are set...
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Crispin Odey is having some issues with his £140k hen house
Remember Crispin Odey’s special hen house? Back in September 2012, the colonaded construction caused outrage when it emerged that Odey was building an edifice better suited to the local squire than...
View ArticleTop consulting firms win pay race in a walk
When it comes to pay in management consulting, it’s the big three and then everyone else. Compensation for McKinsey and Co., Bain & Co. and Boston Consulting Group dwarfed that of competitors in...
View ArticleBig banks it Asia make surprise confession: “We’re not cutting back on agency...
As recruitment starts to pick up in Asia, banks are finding that their in-house hiring teams are too lean to meet the rising demand for new staff. Having spent the best part of six years since the...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: How to get a bond strategy job at Blackrock. Deutsche Bank...
If you’re looking for work as a bond-focused fund manager and you don’t want to risk your chances with cat-happy Bill Gross over at Pimco, why not try Blackrock? Bloomberg reports that the fund...
View ArticleSix front office finance jobs experiencing ‘huge’ hiring in 2014
OK, so ‘huge’ hiring may be a misnomer – despite promising early indications that 2014 was going to be a big year for jobs in finance, it hasn’t really come to much so far. Financial services...
View ArticleWhy you want to work at an activist hedge fund
Watching the game of musical chairs that followed this past bonus season, one thing became clear. Never have bankers collectively had more interest in ditching the sell-side for a job at a hedge fund....
View ArticleHigh frequency trading firm nearly triples pay to over $925k a head
High frequency trading firms have been under a lot of scrutiny since the publication of Michael Lewis’s Flash Boys last week, prompting ongoing debates over unfair advantages and market rigging. They...
View ArticleReasons why recruiters reject you, and how to stop this
Despite talk of an improved job market, it’s still tough to make a new career move, particularly as investment banks continue to roll out redundancies in the wake of weak FICC revenues, while others...
View ArticleThe 90 most-important seconds of a banking interview
If MBAs excel at one thing in particular, it’s preparing for an interview. Top business schools work tirelessly to mold their students into interview machines. MBAs memorize case studies, practice...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: JPMorgan details where it’s hiring 000s. Perfect background...
Want to work for JPMorgan? That’s good – if you want to work in the bank’s technology or control divisions. It’s less good if you want to work in a front office role in sales, trading or M&A –...
View ArticleMeet the two sources that outed @GSElevator
The story of John Lefevre, author of the infamous @GSElevator Twitter account, has been a fascinating one to follow. The latest chapter is no less disappointing. Media outlets had chased Lefevre’s...
View ArticleHow bankers on less than £100k are playing the London housing market
The London housing market is a feverish thing. In the past year, prices in the City have risen 18% to an average of £363k ($609k). In the most up-and-coming boroughs (eg. Brixton and Hackney) house...
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