How to avoid offshoring this year: back office jobs set to stay in Singapore...
Back-office staff at banks in Singapore and Hong Kong haven’t faced the best job market over the past three years. Amid the recent Asian boom in middle-office roles (driven by regulatory expansion) and...
View ArticleWhen’s the perfect time to take an MBA to advance your finance career?
Is there a sweet spot in your finance career when taking a few years out for an MBA is most beneficial? No, insist business schools, which say they accept old and young students alike. Yes, suggest the...
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The biggest financial services pay rises in 2015
Bad news: the biggest pay rise on offer in financial services in 2015 is likely to be, on average, just 3.2%. Even worse, the sector where these larger salary hikes are available is life insurance....
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Are you bold enough to work for Nomura?
Want to work for a Japanese bank with global aspirations? Nomura International is hiring. The Japanese bank has declared its intention of adding around 20 senior M&A bankers in the US and Asia....
View ArticleMorning Coffee: DBS boss Gupta tipped as potential new Stan Chart CEO
Reuters has identified a list of potential candidates to replace current Standard Chartered CEO Peter Sands. They are: DBS CEO Piyush Gupta, outgoing Westpac CEO Gail Kelly, National Bank of Abu...
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CV Review: I completed a postgraduate degree in law. Am I good enough to get...
In this week’s CV Review, we’ve asked our resume doctors to look at analyse the credentials of someone who’s studied law and wants to work in a regulatory role in financial services. Needless to say,...
View ArticleHow to craft a perfect CV to clinch a career change in Asian banking
Banks in Singapore and Hong Kong, facing skill shortages in several fast-growing functions, are becoming more open to taking on people who are seeking a career change and are not an exact match. In the...
View ArticleBanks across Asia scramble to hire for this hot skill-set
Compliance professionals in Asia are tipped to be hot property again in 2015 – as they have since the global financial crisis hit in 2008 – but amid the booming job market in the middle office there’s...
View ArticleHow to break into the investment banking cliques
If you want to get ahead in an investment bank you’ll have to be big on teamwork. At least, that’s the theory. The reality is that banking is full of cliques and you need to be part of the right clique...
View Article10 phrases which subtly suggest you’re powerless at work
You have the job title, you have the Ferragamo loafers. You like to stand with your hands on your hips and your legs apart. You often invade other people’s personal space and you talk in the sort of...
View ArticleHow the 2015 bonus round is panning out at Goldman Sachs, MS, JPM, BAML and Citi
Bonus day in investment banks used to be a simple affair. Bonuses were announced on a divisional basis, and for better or for worse the whole thing was over in around 24 hours. Now it’s become more...
View ArticleA step-by-step guide to acing informational interviews for investment banking
Most analyst and associate classes at investment banks get filled through internship programs and campus visits. The problem for many hopeful bankers is that the Goldman Sachs’s and J.P. Morgan’s of...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Why you might now want to work for an Asian hedge fund startup
Investors are flocking to some of the newer hedge funds in Asia as regional hiring in the sector looks set to pick up in 2015. Last year startup firms such as BosValen Asset Management, Pleiad...
View ArticleThe skill that’s fast becoming your ticket to career success in Asian banking
Compliance and risk and are both, of course, hot jobs within Asian banking. But career success within these functions no longer just depends on your regulatory knowledge or risk-management expertise....
View ArticleWill the tumbling Singapore dollar turns off expat bankers and returnees?
The Singapore dollar is tumbling. This is bad news for financial services professionals in the city-state, some of whom will have had just their bonuses paid into their accounts and now seem relatively...
View ArticleRBC Capital Markets still offering a life line to fixed income traders and...
If you were an investment banker looking to move into an expanding company last year, RBC Capital Markets was the place to go in London. While headcount was flat at most investment banks in the City,...
View ArticleHow junior traders mess up and misconstrue what’s required of them
If you make it through to a trading internship in an investment bank, you’re good. You may be exceptionally good. But don’t let your brilliance blind you to your faults. David Hesketh spent nearly four...
View ArticleDeutsche Bank adding controls, healthcare staffers; UBS rebuilding in Europe
In the latest hiring roundup, Deutsche Bank is adding in controls and healthcare M&A, struggling Standard Chartered is growing a debt team and Espirito Santo is adding headcount across equity...
View ArticleThe 7 most interesting people hired by Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Morgan...
One month into 2015, and US investment banks have been hiring. Based upon their registrations with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), they’ve been hiring quite a lot – especially J.P. Morgan, which...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: China’s anti-corruption drive hits heart of banking sector
The resignation of Mao Xiaofeng as head of China’s Minsheng Bank – amid a corruption probe – shows that nobody within the senior ranks of Chinese banks should now treat their job security lightly....
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