What to do when your internship is over and you hated it
You’re nearing the end of your internship, you’ve worked hard and expect to receive a full-time offer. There’s just one problem. For whatever reason, the bank didn’t win you over. You think you’d...
View ArticleMajor people-moves in Asia this August and what they mean for banking jobs in...
We’re barely a week into August – a supposedly quiet month for significant new appointments at international banks – but already several firms have beefed up their senior ranks in Asia. Here’s a...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: The top 50 MBAs that impress finance professionals, how to...
Most MBA rankings tend to focus on, among other things, the earning potential and employment prospects of those who have graduated from individual business schools. Business Insider has taken a...
View ArticleFormer Goldman Sachs MD now running children’s nursery
Amol Devani, the former head of Goldman Sachs’ FX option desk who has been leading the FX team at hedge fund Capula Investment Management since 2012, is currently taking time out of the financial...
View ArticleWhy RBS bankers are still sought after
Want to revive your company’s fortunes? Want to bring some sell-side insight into your investment boutique? Recruit an RBS banker. Former RBS CEO Stephen Hester yesterday revealed a comparative revival...
View ArticleHow to cope when you’ve just been promoted into a more senior banking job
In banking, “high potential” is often defined by technical skills rather than by leadership capability. Here in Hong Kong (where I’m based) and across Asia, immense recent growth in the financial...
View ArticleForget the beach: How to kick-start your finance career during the summer
The summer has traditionally been a lull period for recruitment in financial services, as key decision makers are out of the office at various points in July and August and few new hires are signed...
View ArticleThe relationship manager job now in high demand in Singapore and Hong Kong
The bigger the clients, the better the relationship manager job – right? Well, not necessarily in Asia right now. Corporate banks are increasingly focusing on selling products to small and medium-sized...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Investment bank breaks keen young student in weeks, $900m...
Journalist Kevin Roose’s new book Young Money follows eight bankers through their first years on the job and documents how naturally optimistic and positive people slide into negativity and bitterness...
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The hottest finance jobs outside of the front office
This time last year, there was talk of a revival in front office recruitment within investment banking. Now, as firms continue to be weighed down by slumping trading revenues, hiring is instead focused...
View ArticleHow to convince your boss you deserve that promotion
It’s summer: your workload has slackened off slightly, giving you more time to ponder your career progression objectives. You soon conclude that your finance career is at a stand-still and you want to...
View ArticleNine of best high paying entry level jobs in finance
Financial services has long-lured the best and brightest graduates with the promise of big starting salaries and the prospect of earning much larger packages as your career progresses. Less emphasis...
View ArticlePimco, Evercore, Citi’s growth plans taking shape
In the latest hiring roundup, Pimco and Evercore’s growth plans taking action, KKR embraces a new challenge and compliance hiring peaks, again. StanChart adding watchdogs Standard Chartered is in a bit...
View ArticleYes, you can move out of a back office finance job in Asia
Back-office professionals looking to leave their jobs for careers that are more interesting, better paid and less vulnerable to offshoring face a challenging task in Singapore and Hong Kong. Making the...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Earning $1m as an investment banker is now too much of a long...
Is working in investment banking worth it anymore? The eight years from 2000-2008, when it was relatively easy to earn seven figure bonuses and retire before you hit 35, are the anomalies. Bankers...
View ArticleWhy investment banks and hedge funds are still getting graduate recruitment...
Alexey Loganchuk glanced around the trading floor at JPMorgan after over five years at the bank and realised everyone was a little too similar. Investment banks’ ‘cookie cutter’ approach to recruiting...
View ArticleThe 11 most desirable skills in financial services now
One way of assessing how in demand your skill-sets are is to look at the number of job vacancies available against the competition for those roles. Another, less obvious, way to gauge your desirability...
View ArticleJPMorgan trading in the Maserati for a trusty Buick?
Park Avenue is an epic stretch of road. The businesses and residents that call it home tend to have one thing in common: prestige – a nice mix of money and power. Or at least that perception. Prestige...
View ArticleIntern diary: My boss told me to call every bank I was vaguely interested in...
I’m spending this summer interning at the wealth management division of a large US investment bank. This is the final installment of a weekly intern diary The last week of my internship at one of the...
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Why M&A bankers are undeserving and credit traders should earn $1m+
You’re a senior trader in a ‘leading investment bank’. Despite claims that it’s not really possible to earn millions in banking any more, you fully aspire to earn that. You still expect to be paid a...
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