It’s still a good time to work on Wall Street, if you can keep the job
Despite pockets of hiring, Wall Street continues to hemorrhage jobs. But on the plus side, those who remain employed at New York banks still get paid handsomely. Over the 12 months ending in August,...
View ArticleThe questions you’ll be asked during a graduate trading interview with...
We can’t tell you the exact questions that you will be asked when you sit down in an interview for a trading position: that will depend not only on the company and the interviewer, but on the the state...
View ArticleFour financial services firms expanding in Asia right now
Headcounts are now being planned for next year and some financial services firms are talking up their hiring in expanding Asian markets, in theory embedding confidence in their brand in the minds of...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: 4 new U.S. firms hiring investment bankers in London. Finance...
Want to make your mark in M&A – or maybe restructuring, at a smallish house, possibly from the U.S., with a frontier-type attitude, preferably in the City? You’re in luck. Financial News says...
View ArticleWhere’s the love? Bankers’ infatuation with their employer on the decline
Despite all the recent news clippings, plenty of people still want to work on Wall Street. Goldman Sachs accepted just 4% of the 43,000 people who applied to its 2014 analyst program, for example....
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Beautiful ex JPMorgan intern earns $20k-$30k appearing at alumni events
Why work for JPMorgan when you can earn far more money being beautiful at alumni events run by elite European business schools? Xenia Tchoumitcheva, the Swiss-Russian model who once interned at...
View ArticleHow to shape up your university resume with extra-curricular activities
Even though having some relevant coursework under your belt certainly helps you land a job in finance, most employers assume that graduate hires know next to nothing. Your knowledge of finance is only...
View ArticleHow to get a banking job as a graduate from a university in Singapore or Hong...
You want to get a graduate banking job in Singapore or Hong Kong (application deadlines are looming) but you didn’t attend a prestigious university overseas. You’ve performed well on a local degree...
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Morning Coffee: CFA Institute releases information on June exam horrors. Big...
Are CFA exams really as hard as everyone expects them to be? Yes. In fact, they are harder. The CFA Institute has just released results to a survey of people who took its exams in June 2014 and their...
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$115k pay packets and more jobs, but MBAs still don’t want to work in...
Despite all the talk of MBAs pulling away from financial sector in favour of glamorous careers in tech start-ups or strategy roles at Google, banking still offers more jobs to those graduating this...
View ArticleFrench bankers are coming for your jobs
French bankers are on the move. Armed with a superior education, excellent mathematical skills, post graduate qualifications in financial engineering and the kind of passionate urge to work in finance...
View ArticleHow Barclays is really trying to give its junior bankers an easier ride
As we’ve discussed several times recently, Barclays is hard at work trying to make life better for its analysts and associates in M&A. The last thing we heard, the British bank was asking its EMEA...
View ArticleHedge fund paying bonuses for not being a jerk
Back in the good old days, SAC Capital paid its traders large bonuses when they made the firm massive amounts of money. In many cases, that money was earned through less-than-ethical and sometimes...
View ArticleFrom rates sales to mountain man: “Investment bankers are going crazy for...
When, after 12 years working in rates sales for Barclays investment bank, Simon James lost his job in April last year, his first thought – rather obviously – was to look for a new one. After a couple...
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...
View ArticleThe yet-to-be-named M&A shop that’s about to make some noise
If you’ve ever been passed over for a promotion and found yourself out of work, try looking to Paul Taubman for motivation. The former co-head of Morgan Stanley‘s investment bank, who reportedly left...
View ArticleUBS is sucking up fixed income salespeople and traders. Again
It’s all happening at UBS, again. Almost exactly two years after UBS announced its decision to embark upon a ‘Strategic acceleration from a position of strength’ (AKA to make thousands of its fixed...
View ArticleHow to get an entry level job in wealth management
Private wealth managers help very rich, and occasionally famous, people manage their money, ensuring that it grows and that they’re able to pass it on to the next generation. They fall into two...
View ArticlePwC to make 16,000 US hires this year. Here’s how to land the job
Despite pockets of hiring, Wall Street is still cutting headcount. New York’s securities industry lost 2,600 jobs last year. The Big Four, meanwhile, continues adding to its roster. Ernst & Young...
View ArticleNew Asian “powerhouse” bank tipped to hire in Singapore – but would you want...
Three Malaysian banks – RHB Capital, CIMB Group and a smaller firm, MBSB – are tying the knot and the merged organisation is expected to want to add to its Singapore-based headcount. The companies last...
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