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How to dress for a hedge fund interview
Unless you’re out soliciting money from high-net worth clients, the dress code at most hedge funds is rather ambiguous. Most people don’t wear suits, though some do. Others dress business casual or...
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Seven Indian bankers in Singapore you need to know about
Indian talent has been at the forefront of Singapore’s finance sector for the past 20 years. Banks in Singapore have turned to the subcontinent to plug skill shortages in technology and to help expand...
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When 20% just isn’t enough. The most outrageous pay demands in Asian banking
The labour market was stable rather than booming for most Asian banking jobs in 2018. But that hasn’t stopped some candidates asking for ridiculous pay rises, say recruiters in Singapore and Hong Kong....
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Morning Coffee: Senior banker said to leave after “inappropriate conduct”...
A high ranking male banker, a junior female colleague, a New York hotel bar and an event that nobody will talk about in public, but which has profound career consequences. It’s a story familiar to...
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The unwelcome guests at Tidjane Thiam’s Credit Suisse party
Most people quite like working at Tidjane Thiam’s Credit Suisse. During today’s (ongoing) 2018 Credit Suisse investor day presentations, Thiam presented the results to a recent survey which said 88% of...
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Banking headcount to ‘drop like a railroad stock’ as AI expands
Artificial intelligence and machine learning have already made their imprint on investment banks and other financial firms. The main applications currently revolve around trading, but people like...
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Why most front office banking jobs will stay in London until 2021, hard...
As Brexit goes from bad to mind-numbingly-abominable and possibly worse (before getting better?), London finance professionals could be forgiven for thinking they’ll be shunted to Frankfurt and Paris...
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Boutique PJT Partners adding headcount to its new activist defense unit
Activist defense has quietly become a bigger source of revenue for investment banks over the last few years as corporations are looking for help dealing with public campaigns from the likes of Bill...
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Credit Suisse shows you’ll need to be a great technologist to get into a bank...
You probably won’t remember this – unless you happen to be the sort of geek who recalls banking presentations, but last year’s Credit Suisse investor day included an interesting chart. The chart,...
View ArticleThe real reason why bankers join Credit Suisse in Singapore and Hong Kong
If you’re a private banker in Singapore or Hong Kong looking to move after pocketing your bonus next year, you have many potential options. As millionaire and billionaire wealth surges across Asia,...
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Morning Coffee: Citi’s brand new MDs show who’s special now. Banking IT...
After Goldman Sachs and Bank of America, Citigroup has become the latest to announce who’s made managing director (MD) for 2018. Business Insider has procured Citi’s list of 125 people, of whom 37 are...
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This is how much you will earn at D.E. Shaw in London
If you’re a quant who wants to work for a hedge fund, you probably want to work for D.E. Shaw. Heralded as “the first great quant hedge fund,” D.E. Shaw launched in above a Marxist bookshop in New York...
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Deutsche Bank’s ex-head of corporate strategy just joined J.P. Morgan
Yet another ex-Deutsche Bank MD has proven that there is life after the German bank. Ali Almakky, the bank’s former global head of corporate strategy has just turned up at J.P. Morgan, six months after...
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Parisian bankers and recruiters complain of “French-bashing” over gilets jaunes
Will the ‘gilets jaunes’ (rioters in yellow high-vis jackets) dissuade banks from moving staff from London to Paris? A London trader writing here last week argued that they will. London finance...
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Barclays nabs Credit Suisse markets tech head before the holidays
Barclays has poached a high-ranking technology lead from Credit Suisse just before the end of the year. Chris Wells, a former managing director of global markets technology at Credit Suisse, started at...
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The seven most annoying sorts of bankers in Singapore and Hong Kong
Recruiters in Hong Kong and Singapore are now busy meeting the financial professionals they hope to place into jobs when more vacancies open up in early 2019. But because banks increasingly only use...
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Expansionist bank ramps up in Hong Kong with two new senior hires
Julius Baer, which has already been expanding its headcount in Singapore this year, has made two new appointments in its Hong Kong office. Stephen Wong has joined the Swiss private bank from UBS as a...
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Morning Coffee: The ‘agony and ecstasy’ of working for Elon Musk....
Despite all the negative headlines surrounding Elon Musk, the next-generation of engineering talent is still lining up to work for the man. More than 13,000 students recently rated Tesla as the fourth...
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Barclays’ new managing director list reflects the bank’s big issue now
Barclays has just announced its list of new managing directors (MDs) for 2018. Congratulations to the 85 lucky people, who are predominantly men, predominantly based in the U.S. or London, and are all...
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ExodusPoint’s new big hire suggests the dangers of leaving a cosy bank job...
ExodusPoint Capital Management is still at it. The $8bn hedge fund, which has been one of this year’s big hirers on both sides of the Atlantic, just added Stanislas de Caumont in London. De Caumont...
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