Barclays will now be hiring, paying and appreciating precisely these people...
Barclays big strategy presentation is over. You can see the whole thing here. The worst news is already out: Barclays plans to cut 7,000 jobs, or 27.5% of the total headcount in its investment bank by...
View ArticleIn compliance hiring, the money follows the scandals
If you want a high-paying job in compliance, keep your eye on the headlines. Scandals not only generate openings – they also create desperate employers ready to open their wallets. The most recent look...
View ArticleSenior female Morgan Stanley trader joins hedge fund less than a year after...
Despite diversity initiatives, female traders in investment banking are still all too scarce. Senior female traders are even rarer, which is why Angelie Moledina’s departure from Morgan Stanley to...
View ArticleCommon wealth management interview questions and how to answer them
Typically speaking, brokerage firms that are recruiting entry-level financial advisers aren’t looking for people who can provide the next great stock tip. They want salespeople who can tap their...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Has Antony Jenkins made a stupid mistake? JPMorgan’s...
It’s the morning after the day before. Analysts have had time to pore over the latest Barclays’ presentation and Barclays’ bankers have had time to consider their fate. For the moment, investors seem...
View ArticleWhat does it take to get hired by Neil Woodford’s new firm?
Neil Woodford is officially back. The star fund manager, who managed £15bn of assets while leading Invesco Perpetual’s investments team returning 2,200% over 35 years, has reassured potential investors...
View ArticleRBC Capital Markets could throw Barclays’ unwanted traders a lifeline
Barclays is making 7,000 of its investment banking staff redundant over the next three years, with 2,300 redundancies to take place annually between now and the end of 2016. Senior front office fixed...
View ArticleA comprehensive breakdown of the last available graduate banking jobs...
Late doesn’t even begin to describe it if you’re looking for either an internship or full-time position at an investment bank to start in 2014. We’ve scoured the last available vacancies including, it...
View ArticleCareer Crunch: Implications of the Barclays bloodbath, how to succeed in...
Barclays made the most sweeping changes to its investment bank that will see thousands of jobs culled over the next two years. This has dominated the headlines, but there were other (more positive)...
View ArticleIs this the best banking job in Asia for making a career change?
Operational risk in Asia: it’s a finance job function with a seemingly secure future, offering vacancies galore at major global banks and pay rises of up to 35% if you change companies. On top of all...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Interest in banking careers has collapsed. Best MBAs for an...
There was a time when banking careers were all about high prestige, high potency and high pay. Now, they are more associated with tedium and huge hours. Unsurprisingly, this combination does not appeal...
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How bonuses of $250k, $500k and $1m are structured at JPMorgan
You work for JPMorgan and receive a bonus of $250k, $500k, or $1m. How much will you get now? How much will you need to wait for? How are JPMorgan bonuses structured? As with Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan...
View ArticleNew York AG now focusing on high frequency trades
High-frequency trading is getting scrutinized by the New York Attorney General’s office – as investigations involving federal authorities continue into the controversial practice. Among the firms named...
View ArticleSenior IB traders reduced to trading from home. Should you?
When Mercuria Energy Group buys JPMorgan’s physical commodities unit, only around half of the 400 staff will keep their jobs. With commodities trading in investment banking increasingly being scaled...
View ArticleDeutsche Bank, Nomura hiring in fixed income; RBC growing away from home
In the latest hiring roundup, RBC is growing in Europe, two big banks are making surprising hires in fixed income and Moelis is eyeing new recruits. Late is better than never If you’re still looking...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Are massive job cuts really coming at JPM? Worst thing ever...
Some kind of haemorrhagic meltdown is due to strike JPMorgan. So says Nancy Bush, a consultant and strategic adviser at NAB Research, backed up Dick Bove, a bank analyst at Rafferty Capital Markets....
View ArticleWhere you can achieve double-digit pay rises in the Middle East financial sector
Financial services recruiters in the Middle East are not only competing for candidates with local rivals, but – because of the tendency to look internationally for candidates – they’re also trying...
View ArticleThe 10 most desirable and lucrative jobs on offer at GS, JPM, BAML, MS and...
Banks are hiring. Forget the blood on the floor at Barclays. Forget the media frenzy battering JPMorgan. Who cares that fixed income revenues seem to be in terminal decline? Recruitment firm Morgan...
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Profits at Goldman Sachs International fell 75% last year. It still paid...
Bankers at Goldman Sachs International in London are rumoured to be rough and ready and highly competitive. So said Greg Smith in his “tell all” book on working at Goldman, published in 2012....
View ArticleLife after Dimon at JPMorgan?
Coming off a highly litigious year and a historically frustrating fiscal quarter, JPMorgan is reeling. The bank is now said to be facing more layoffs than had originally been planned along with the...
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