Real reasons recruiters ignore your banking resume
You’ve sent your CV off for a gazillion jobs and you’ve had an equal amount of automated responses. Something tells you humankind is overlooking your job applications. Why? Speaking strictly off the...
View ArticleWhich bank says its IBD juniors are free to attend parties in evenings, take...
Where should you work in investment banking if you’re a social creature who likes to meet friends after slaving away at spreadsheets? Try BNP Paribas. If you work for the French bank’s investment...
View ArticleHow to build the perfect graduate resume for Goldman Sachs
As part of its new recruiting push for graduate and intern hires, Goldman Sachs recently hosted a webinar to spell out some do’s and don’ts for banking resumes. Here are some key points that Goldman...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Where to work if you want a yuan trading job
If you want a banking job that takes advantage of Hong Kong’s position as the world’s largest offshore yuan-trading centre, you should now focus your efforts on these seven banks: Bank of China, BNP...
View ArticleStaff localisation drive in Singapore forces banks to revamp hiring policies
Recruitment and human resources teams at banks in Singapore are paying closer attention to the nationality of people they promote and hire as the city state’s government encourages them to boost the...
View ArticleCareer survival tips from senior investment bankers
Any way you slice the numbers, more people fail in their investment banking career than succeed. It’s competitive enough to make it through the door, but the number of people stagnating at VP level or...
View ArticleMeet 8 new analysts at Barclays Investment Bank. What makes them special?
Do you want to work for Barclays’ Investment Bank? What kinds of people does it really hire onto its graduate programme? In the U.K., Barclays has just registered its new crop of graduate hires with...
View ArticleWhy you’d rather have an MBA in New York over London or Singapore
CFA or an MBA: the debate has raged on for years. An MBA costs more, but once you’re admitted, your chances of ending up with a diploma are excellent. Taking one of the three levels of a CFA exam costs...
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How it is to have a trading job at Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley
Both Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have now released their 10Q forms for the third quarter of 2014. As usual, these contain details of their trading revenues on a daily basis over that three month...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: ANZ shows off its poaching power in Asia
ANZ has hired Huang Xiaoguang as chief executive officer for China and head of Greater China, based in Shanghai. Huang was most recently co-head of global corporate and investment banking for China at...
View ArticleWhy banks in Hong Kong no longer need to hire young expats
It has not been a good week for the reputation of expatriate finance professionals in Hong Kong. In the wake of Rurik Jutting’s arrest several media reports have painted a picture of drug-fuelled young...
View ArticleMoelis & Co. Europe chief: we’re growing and you should want to work for a...
If you’re starting out in investment banking currently, it’s important to choose a firm or business area that’s growing. The problem is, as investment banks grapple with – depending on who you speak to...
View ArticleBrevan Howard and BlueCrest – hedge funds and staff ‘churn’
So you think you’re going to get rich working for a hedge fund? You can allegedly earn plenty of money as a portfolio manager or investment professional. But will it last? Not necessarily. Hedge funds...
View ArticleThe tractor beam of a high-paying finance career lures leavers back again
For every 100-hour week-working, spreadsheet-number-crunching, stuck-in-the mid-ranks, investment banker, the dream of quitting the sector to go it alone is one that is increasingly gaining traction....
View ArticleEarn $6m solving 6 of the hardest mathematical problems of all time, or...
If you work in finance you probably have some aptitude for mathematics. Some of you will even have an exceptional mathematical talent. It’s worth remembering, therefore, that $6m is still on the table...
View ArticleHSBC hires giraffe-campaigning trader to lead transactional FX business
HSBC has poached a director from Deutsche Bank to lead its transactional FX business in another example of a significant senior hire at the UK bank. Greg Edwards joined HSBC in October as global head...
View ArticleRecruiters say British bankers are lazy and monolingual
Given the option, U.S. investment banks in London would rather pass on native British hires. Continental Europeans are their recruits of choice. “Britons are a dying breed in investment banking [IBD]...
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The biggest employers of CFA charterholders globally
In a new era of transparency, or perhaps a giving away of a little more information than most financiers would like, the CFA Institute has unveiled a new database that provides the names, telephone...
View ArticleHSBC’s huge hiring plans; Moelis on European push
In the latest hiring roundup, Moelis is growing in Europe, Barclays is adding headcount in Asia and HSBC reveals aggressive risk and compliance plans. Moelis on European push Investment bank Moelis...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: It’s official – M&A bankers are needed urgently in China
In recent weeks we’ve been pointing out that Chinese bankers with cross-border M&A skills are becoming extremely hot property as acquisition-hungry Chinese companies look to expand overseas....
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