Ex-Deutsche Bank credit chief launches own hedge fund
Vassilis Paschopoulos, the former head of European investment grade trading at Deutsche Bank who left last year as part of a shake-up of its credit business, has launched his own hedge fund along with...
View ArticleDesperate London investment banks scour continental Europe for juniors
Frankfurt and Paris have long been happy hunting grounds for investment banks in the City of London to find talent, but there are certain rules to follow. Usually, most recruits are fresh graduates...
View ArticleSix learnings from Deutsche Bank’s ‘Unofficial Guide to Banking’
October is the month. If you want to apply for an investment bank’s graduate programme, starting July 2015, you need to do so in the next four weeks, or so. If you want to apply for a graduate job at...
View ArticleBring your winter coat to school if you want to work On Wall Street
If you want a job at an investment bank, try picking a school in a cold weather state with a nice view of the Atlantic Ocean. Your odds would appear to be much better. A new survey from Wall Street...
View ArticleMeet some of Morgan Stanley’s new London analysts
What does it take to get an analyst job in an investment bank in London? Needless to say, it helps to have exceptional A Levels and academic achievements. It helps to have interned in banking almost...
View ArticleHow to get a job in compliance with little or no experience
It’s rather odd to have an industry that’s purging talent nearly across the board at mid and senior-levels while desperately hiring in one particular business area. But that’s essentially what’s...
View ArticleQ4 hiring trends you need to know about in Singapore and Hong Kong
It’s the start of the fourth quarter and recruitment has temporarily ground to a halt in Asia’s financial hubs. The continuing pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong that caused banks to postpone...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Crisis as neither Barclays’ nor UBS’s M&A bankers...
If you wanted to single out two banks which have really ‘gone for it’ in M&A this year whilst simultaneously cudgelling (or continuing to cudgel) their fixed income currencies and commodities...
View ArticleSenior Citigroup banker swaps London for New York to join Jefferies
Pat Guerin, Citigroup’s global head of sales and divestitures and a veteran London investment banker, has left to join Jefferies’ New York office. Guerin, who spent over ten years at UBS, latterly as...
View ArticleThe role based pay at Barclays is quite enormous
The European Union is not OK with role-based pay. There’s been a lot of sabre rattling about the issue in the past few weeks, with the European Banking Authority (EBA) threatening to outlaw role-based...
View ArticleDo jobs at Google and Facebook offer bigger salaries than investment banks?
Forget the fact that investment banks are Googlising their offices and shaking up their tech teams to include Agile working practices and innovation hubs to compete with start-ups and large IT firms,...
View ArticleThe hottest M&A shop in the U.S. is a Canadian bank
When the financial crisis hit, every bank in the world took some share of the punishment. Still, some came out smelling better than others. Unlike many U.S. banks, which were leveraged up to their...
View ArticleWhen bankers don’t retire at 40. Or even 50
Bill Gross is the new model for anti-ageist finance professionals. Aged 70 and worth $2bn, Gross is still working. He’s got a new job has made no mention of the ‘r’ word. Investment banking...
View ArticleHow to get a graduate-level risk management job in Singapore or Hong Kong
The employment market for risk management jobs in Singapore and Hong Kong is buoyant and has been for the past five years. But for graduates, clinching a junior risk job is far from straight forward –...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Barclays traders banned from debauched nights out. MBAs feel...
When you get beyond the money, being a trader at an investment bank is a bit of a slog. You have to get up early and you might lose your job to an electronic trading system. But these negatives have...
View ArticleErnst & Young to hire over 15,000 in 2015
Ernst & Young plans to significantly increase US hiring in the coming year, with a particular focus on advisory and assurance. The Big Four firm told us that it expects to bring on roughly 6,500...
View ArticleAdvice for bankers changing careers in their 40s
Like it or not, 40 is still a watershed age in banking. 40 is the age at which ageism kicks in. 40 is also the age at which bankers and traders who’ve had successful careers start casting about for...
View ArticleFrom banking to baking: “People are jumping out of investment banking at an...
Earlier this year, after ten years working for JPMorgan in New York, Mark Franczyk bit the bullet and quit investment banking to follow his passion and learn pastry arts. From banking to baking, from...
View ArticleStudent finance careers events and competitions for the week ahead
Are you a student who wants to work in finance? Now’s the time for you to hone your pitch. – Banks everywhere are accepting applications (we have a Singapore/Hong Kong deadlines timetable here and a...
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City jobs slow down, or London’s booming?
It’s a morning for statements on the health of the City of London job market. On the one hand, there’s recruiters Astbury Marsden, bullishly claiming that job numbers in investment banks are up by 46%...
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