Six key career concerns plaguing mid-level finance professionals in Asia...
As banks pay bonuses and assess potential promotions and salary rises this quarter, financial professionals are getting a clearer indication of the current state of their careers. In Asia, skill...
View ArticleThe top 50 universities for getting a front office investment banking job
Want to work in a front office job in investment banking? You should have gone to the London School of Economics. Share on twitter Failing that, banks would dearly like to hear from Columbia University...
View ArticleUncertainty at Deutsche Bank as new bosses appear ahead of shake-up
In any normal year, bonuses would be the big topic of discussion at Deutsche Bank in the first quarter. This year, however, the issue of who was paid what is being eclipsed by potentially changes to...
View ArticleMeet the men charged with keeping Lloyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon safe
When you’re the high profile head of a global investment bank, you can’t simply walk down the street on your own. You need protection: executive protection. At Goldman Sachs, Robert Burns, a former...
View ArticleThe last investment banking commodities hirer appears to be firing
Has the last oasis of banking commodities recruitment finally started to dry up? BTG Pactual, the Brazilian investment bank, stated its intention to hire around 100 commodities professionals at the...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: HR, compliance and legal helped with J.P. Morgan’s princeling...
If you thought that J.P.Morgan’s hiring of princelings in China – also know as “sons and daughters”, the children of powerful Chinese executives – was carried out behind closed doors in an ad hoc...
View ArticleHow to land a new banking job in Asia even if you’ve just received a terrible...
If the reason you’re looking for a new banking job right now is the small size of your bonus, tread carefully in case your motivations scupper your candidacy. Recruiters in Singapore and Hong Kong are...
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And the most unfair bank to work in Europe for is….
If you want to work somewhere where the pot is equally distributed and the love is shared about liberally, banking is not the place to be. Today’s big report on banking pay by the think-tank New...
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Want to work in investment banking? Here’s who else does too
What kinds of people want to work in investment banking? A new study of 14,300 British adults by YouGov reveals the precise profile of banking aspirants by age, gender, political affiliation and social...
View ArticleEx-Goldman Sachs and ML bankers think creativity is more important than...
If you’re interested in joining an expanding buyside firm full of ex-investment bankers with excellent pedigrees, Tikehau Capital looks like a good place to be. It looks even better if you’re creative...
View ArticleThe ‘boring’ sector competing against banks and PE firms for young finance...
You’re a young finance professional who’s successfully seen off 300 other applicants to switch from investment banking into private equity. You have headhunters knocking at your door. The promise of a...
View ArticleInvestment bankers are hot commodities; BNP creates new equities group
In the latest hiring roundup, private equity firms and corporations are poaching investment bankers, Pimco has seats to fill and BNP is launching a new equities group. PE firms recruiting juniors,...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Maybank tipped to hire as rival cuts
Malaysian banks haven’t exactly been top of mind among job seekers in Singapore or Hong Kong of late. First came the news in January that CIMB and RHB were calling off the “mega merger” that we had...
View ArticleChina tries to lure trading talent home for burgeoning new market
China’s financial engineers are coming home. Inspired by the launch of the first equity options in Shanghai, finance professionals with experience in structuring or trading derivatives are thinking of...
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Banking interview questions: Why should banks fear a ‘Grexit’?
Like a middle-life rock star on a stadia comeback tour, the notion that Greece might exit the eurozone is not going to lie down and die. For the moment, it’s strutting about playing air guitar ahead of...
View ArticleFour exciting new London finance firms that could hire you
Joining a new hedge fund is not without its risks. In Europe, a dearth of new clients and rising costs forced hedge funds to close at a record rate in 2014 Share on twitter, with 370 firms shuttering...
View ArticleSo, this is the likelihood you’ll make MD in compliance
Compliance professionals are super hot. They are so hot that Barclays has a whole new Compliance Academy created in conjunction with Cambridge University in which it is fashioning the compliance...
View ArticleEight bite-sized ways to boost your banking career over Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year is nearly here and most finance professionals in Hong Kong and Singapore are set to spend at least the next four days away from the office. But while the holiday season is, of course,...
View ArticleThe best, and worst, paying jobs in banking technology
If you work in investment banking IT, you are no doubt (still) primarily motivated by earning potential over potentially exciting new innovations. Banking generally pays tech workers more than other...
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How quickly you make MD at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America,...
Making it to managing director is increasingly a pipedream for many investment bankers. Annual MD promotion classes are getting smaller, mid-ranking bankers are stuck in career stasis and, if Goldman...
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