Equities hiring in Hong Kong: more blip than boom
An upcoming mutual stock market access deal between Hong Kong and Shanghai is now creating equities trading jobs in Hong Kong. But the new hiring is likely to be a (very welcome) blip rather than a...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: What makes JPMorgan’s junior M&A bankers weird....
Next time you come across a junior M&A-type banker at JPMorgan, look him (or her) in the eye and ask seriously what they do. Chances are that you’ll be surprised. Chances are that they won’t be...
View ArticleCitigroup’s co-head of equity derivatives has joined Moore Capital
The upset within Citigroup’s equities business has resulted in a shake-up that has seen some of the old guard depart. One of those was Rory Hill, co-head of equity derivatives for EMEA, who left the...
View ArticleYou may be in a rocking chair when you receive your next deferred bonus payment
Amidst all the chaos following the financial crisis, an odd game has broken out among regulators on either side of pond. Who can dream up the most painful compensation plan for bankers? The leader in...
View ArticleWhy did Barclays just lose all these IBD juniors in London?
Barclays Investment Bank is laying people off. In theory it’s laying them off from fixed income sales and trading, from which it’s mounting a strategic withdrawal. It’s strange, therefore, that many of...
View ArticleHow to write a resume for an Asian banking role if you’re a serial job hopper
You’ve been searching in Singapore or Hong Kong for a new banking job and you’ve finally found what you think is a perfect fit. You face one big problem, however: your CV is what recruiters like to...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: The best European bank to work for? Barclays bankers may not...
Results to the European stress tests are due out on Sunday. Irrespective of their contents, Bloomberg thinks it’s identified the top European investment bank of the moment. It is, apparently, Credit...
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Credit Suisse has hiked pay. And it’s hiring, but still firing
Credit Suisse’s third quarter results are out. Inexplicably, the Swiss bank is deferring its full financial release until October 31st, but in the meantime there’s still plenty to go on. Credit...
View ArticleKCG Europe has been hiring, but cut 30% of traders last year
KCG Europe, the firm that emerged from the tie-up between Knight Capital and high frequency trader Getco last year, has seen through on promises to invest in people to an extent throughout 2014. It...
View ArticleTraders resurgent. Bankers waning. Banks left wondering about strategy
The pendulum seems to have swung. After 12 months in which investment bankers have ruled the roost and gone about extolling ‘integrated origination verticals’, the investment banking pipeline is...
View ArticleWhere Jamie Dimon is headed after his run at JPMorgan
No one would ever claim that JPMorgan Chief Executive Jamie Dimon isn’t tough. Enduring the financial crisis, something only he and a handful of other investment banking CEOs were able to do, is...
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Meet the ex-Goldman banker on a quest to change the way children use social...
Ex-Goldman Sachs banker Rajeev Gupta is a man with a dual purpose. First, he is cultivating his facial hair. Second, he is trying to revolutionise the way people use social networking sites. “Rameet...
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Why JPMorgan bankers want to move from Park Ave., why they don’t
JPMorgan is reportedly considering moving its New York headquarters from its posh Park Avenue location to the West Side. The bank is eyeing a $6.5 billion two-tower campus at Hudson Yards, a new build...
View ArticleDeadlines for MBA associate programmes at banks in Hong Kong and Singapore
If you’re an MBA student looking to land a job at a global bank in Hong Kong or Singapore, the best way to kickstart your financial career is via a summer associate internship. As in London, banks in...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: JPMorgan banker makes freakish job move. Goldman man explains...
A banker at JPMorgan has made a curious career transition. Much like the senior credit trader at Citi who recently became head of equities, the career changer at JPM has moved into a different but...
View ArticleUBS hires new head of Euro rates trading from hedge fund
UBS might be in the midst of a restructuring to downsize its investment bank (largely through making thousands redundant in its fixed income, currencies and commodities division), but it’s still...
View ArticleJPMorgan’s ex-head of equities finds perfect pseudo-retirement post
What do you when you’re fatigued with getting up at 5am and battling the oscillations of the European cash equities markets? How about kicking back, dropping out (of banking), and getting a pleasant...
View ArticleOnce mighty trading capital falling on hard times
A few years ago, Stamford, Connecticut was one of the best cities in which to work if you were a trader. Home to UBS and Royal Bank of Scotland’s U.S. trading hubs, Stamford housed thousands of...
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Why finance professionals can’t afford their children
Deep in Cobham, a leafy Surrey town within commuting distance of London, Samantha, the American wife of a City finance professional is weighing how best to bring up her son. “He started out in the...
View ArticleHow to differentiate good and not-so-good recruiters
Candidates complaining about recruiters, calling them unhelpful, unethical and even immoral is as old as the hills, and nothing provokes comments on eFinancialCareers like a debate over their merits...
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