How to get a banking job in Asia if you don’t already work in banking
If you don’t work in banking but would like to get a banking job in Singapore or Hong Kong your options are obviously rather limited. Banks like to groom their own graduate talent or poach from rivals...
View ArticleSix finance firms with growth strategies in the Middle East
Wading through banks’ strategy announcements can be a tricky business, filled as they are with jargon and euphemisms designed to keep their share price buoyant. When it comes to the Middle East,...
View ArticleThe art of getting a new banking job before Christmas
Can you find yourself a new job in banking before Christmas? Yes, but only if you do exactly as we say. At this time of year, hiring typically closes down for high-end, highly-paid financial services...
View Article“The optimal age in banking is 28″
Banks still need to pay far more attention to ingrained ageism says one reader, who posted this comment below our piece on the issue earlier this week. “The year I turned 50, I was working for a big...
View ArticleThe six interview pet peeves of Goldman Sachs recruiters
There are nearly a limitless number of things you can do to screw up an interview. We’ve heard them all, from calling someone a high-heeled bond trader (rather than high-yield) to showing up to a hedge...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: New brokerages set to hire in Hong Kong?
Here’s an additional sign that the launch of Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect next week will create new finance jobs in Hong Kong: property experts in the city say that “finance firms” (read, small...
View ArticleWhy banking recruitment in Singapore is slowing down
If you want a banking job in Singapore, get set for a long wait. Banks in the city state are generally slowing down their recruitment processes, taking longer than they did last year to make job...
View ArticleWhy you should want to work for a fintech startup. But they probably won’t...
Investment banks are losing technology talent to the hot world of fintech start-ups. Forget foosball tables or Hawaiian shirt days, fledgling technology firms offer the chance to work on innovative...
View ArticleSo, what DO you wear to a JP Morgan spring week event at Oxford University?
Oxford University’s finance society, Capitox, has got itself into a bit a pickle with a mass email following a query about the dress code for a forthcoming spring week event involving JPMorgan. When a...
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10 big insights into finance pay, from the industry’s leading pay consultant
Alan Johnson, chief executive of Johnson Associates, the Wall Street pay consultancy firm, has just made his annual presentation on the state of investment banking pay, along with pay in the asset...
View ArticleBrevan Howard hires duo from JPMorgan and Nomura
Brevan Howard hasn’t exactly been in expansionary mode this year. In the wake of some shaky performance, senior staff members have departed, others have been shipped out of Mayfair to Switzerland....
View ArticleThe highlights of Goldman Sachs’ new partner class
The day is a little bit brighter for the 78 Goldman Sachs employees who were just named partners of the firm. Just 11 are women, but that’s actually up from the 10 that were named in 2012. That’s the...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Standard Chartered hiring through the storm
As Standard Chartered tries to calm investor fears over its performance and plans 100 global branch closures, there are as yet no signs that it’s trimming headcount in its core Asian markets of...
View ArticleHow to start a banking career at Citi in Asia
Citi is one of the largest recruiters of students and graduates in the Asian banking sector. Each year hundreds of them join the ranks of its 55,000 employees in Asia, a region which contributed 36% of...
View ArticleHedge fund’s direct lending chief departs after two years
The former chief executive officer of debt investor Palio Capital Partners, which was disbanded after its three founding partners left for Chenavari Investment Managers, has now left the credit-focused...
View ArticleUpset as FX traders anticipating bonuses now face pay destitution
A few weeks ago, FX traders in London were daring to hope. Yes, the prospect of fines related to FX fixing loomed, but thanks to September’s increased volatility they’d actually made some money. With...
View ArticleAn inside look into the life of a winning and losing Wall Street trader
Being a trader isn’t your traditional 9-5 job. There are wild swings of emotion throughout the year and even during a single day as bets pay off or end up costing you money. What’s it like living that...
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This is why you fail the CFA exams
December’s CFA exams are approaching fast. As usual, a majority of candidates will fail – in June of 42% of candidates passed CFA Level I, and only 46% passed Level II. Level III is the only CFA exam...
View ArticleKunal Shah, Goldman Sachs MD at 27, partner at 31
Of Goldman’s list of partners, announced yesterday, 31-year-old Kunal Shah is the man everyone’s talking about. Shah got the news about his promotion aged 31. It will become effective the day before...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: New boost for ECM jobs in Asia
In the build-up to the launch of Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect next week, we’ve already mentioned several potential positive effects that the programme might have on finance jobs in Hong Kong. More...
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