A brilliant banking career emerges in Singapore (but only if you’re senior...
Senior debt capital markets (DCM) professionals in Singapore are officially hot stuff. Banks there are looking to both hire new DCM staff and retain their key deal-makers as the city state’s debt...
View ArticleSix jobs Middle Eastern banks are still desperate to fill in 2014
The end of the year is fast-approaching; a time when finance recruiters sit back and start planning for the coming 12 months. However, there are still roles on the market that recruiters would dearly...
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Working for Goldman, Morgan Stanley or a boutique is the fastest route to the...
It’s no secret that investment banks experience significant turnover at the completion of their analyst programs. Some burnout, some are let go and others move industries after earning five years of...
View ArticleThe new case for getting a job at Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse has had a bad rap of late. Following an October reshuffle, it’s been accused of having too many chiefs in the investment bank. It’s been accused of strategic vacuity. It’s been pulled up...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: CLSA set for more hiring as heavy-hitter joins team
With the senior investment-banking job market heating up in Hong Kong and China, CLSA has announced an important new hire. The Hong Kong-based brokerage, now owned by China’s Citic Securities, has...
View Article$100k pay rises possible in Asian banking – as long as you don’t want to lead...
With jobs growth exceeding candidate supply in Singapore, some senior transaction bankers can expect bumper pay rises Share on twitter (or at least an internal promotion) next year. But the most...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: What Citi and Bank of America really said about banking jobs...
It’s the Goldman Sachs 2014 US Financial Services Conference. Yesterday, both Michael Corbat of Citi and Brian Moynihan of Bank of America made presentations. The two men said pretty much the same...
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How much do you really cost your employer? And how can they cut costs without...
The average front office employee is currently costing large investment banks $485.4k. This is not down to performance prowess that generates large bonuses, nor can it be pinned on hiking base...
View ArticleBanking interview questions answered – do you want to trade equities, or bonds?
Against the odds, you want to be a trader in an investment bank. Even though trading jobs are being displaced by jobs in compliance, risk and technology, you’re convinced that trading is the place for...
View ArticleThe five hottest skill sets outside of the front office that will get you a...
Without a doubt, compliance and reporting are the hottest areas of hiring in the US, and will likely remain so in the coming year. Banks facing new regulations and those reeling from scandals, like...
View ArticleIs Goldman Sachs the kindest bank to work for before Christmas?
Christmas is coming, but several banks are being neither charitable nor filled with cheer. With festivities in sight, they are instead culling their minions. In the past few weeks, there has been news...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: ECM recovers in Hong Kong but DCM hiring still hotter
After a quiet autumn in their market, do ECM bankers in Hong Kong now have more reasons to be cheerful? Share on twitter New issue activity is picking up this month in the city as rising markets and...
View ArticleFive reasons NOT to look for a new banking job in Asia next year
It’s approaching year-end and bonuses, salary reviews, promotions and holidays are on the horizon. Here in Singapore, there’s also a perception that the banking job market, although not booming, isn’t...
View ArticleMorgan Stanley makes senior hire in this hot sector
Risk management and compliance are the areas where investment banks are being compelled to hire thousands of new staff, and the people who head the divisions have gone from maligned internal police to...
View ArticleHow mid-ranking bankers destroy their careers
Have you heard of executive derailment? If you’re a vice president (VP) or director-level banker and you want to get promoted, it’s about time you familiarized yourself with the term. Executive...
View ArticleFear and loathing hit the UBS bonus pool
If you ask headhunters about the most disaffected cohort of bankers ahead of bonus time, one group crops comes up over and over again – UBS fixed income professionals. They fear their bonuses for 2014...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: More musical chairs at Barclays in APAC
Barclays continues to reshuffle its upper ranks in Asia Pacific Share on twitter, appointing Paul Early and Richard Satchwell as co-heads of investment banking in Australia, reports Finance Asia. The...
View ArticleWhy Hong Kong banks are desperate to hire more lawyers
A rising regulatory burden and the need to support front-office deal-making are forcing global banks in Hong Kong to hire more lawyers and give their current legal teams more specialised work. “There’s...
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Hiring and firing in investment banking: The winners and the losers in 2014
Which investment banks have been hiring, and which have been firing in the City of London this year Share on twitter? The short answer is that none have pushed the boat out when it comes to taking...
View ArticleDo you want to work in law? Or do you want to work in investment banking?
Life isn’t easy when you’re an elite student. Alongside the pressure to maintain a high GPA, there’s the pressure of choosing between the established elite careers. – Banking or consulting? Law or...
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