25 real life questions asked in corporate finance interviews
MBAs have a variety of opportunities after graduating. The most common career paths are consulting, investment banking and tech. But many others go the corporate route, working in an accounting or...
View ArticleBarclays’ investment bank is far bigger in New York than London. These...
If you want to work for Barclays’ investment bank, you should probably work in New York City. That’s where most of the bank’s front office staff are based. And that’s where its people are highest paid....
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Where to work if you want an Asian private banking job
If you’re thinking about changing jobs in the private banking sector in Asia, you’re probably wanting to move to a firm where both assets under management (AUM) and headcount are growing. If so, you...
View ArticleThe latest hot banking job in China and Hong Kong is hit by skill shortages
As job cuts continue to savage equity sales and trading jobs in Asia – Standard Chartered, Nomura and CIMB have all laid off staff this year – the hiring of equity research analysts who cover A-shares...
View ArticleMichael Hintze’s hedge fund has been making some senior hires
CQS, one of the largest UK hedge funds set up by Sir Michael Hintze in 1999, has started 2015 by adding two senior hires to its ranks including the former head of equity exotics trading at Barclays...
View ArticleThis Citi leveraged finance analyst has exceptional experience as a waiter
It’s a mantra among graduate recruiters to say that any kind of work experience can be relevant to banking, if only you spin it right. Did you spend your summers at university working in a gift shop?...
View ArticleTop banking analyst cautions against careers in equity research
So you want to be an equity researcher? Think again. Along with being an MD in M&A and a salesperson in FX, equity research is over-rated as a career, So says Brad Hintz, who should know. “Equity...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Want to work at an Asian hedge fund? Head to Shanghai
In another sign of growth in Asia’s emerging hedge fund sector, Morgan Stanley is reportedly relaunching its annual Asia hedge fund event after a two-year break. The US bank will stage its Asian hedge...
View ArticleBankers in Asia “stuck” mid-career as firms fail to build leaders
Talent shortages are a hot topic in Asian banking and the discussion mainly revolves around specific jobs in specific sectors. Relationship managers in private banking provide the prime example – even...
View ArticleJ.P. Morgan’s attempted LinkedIn ban is more comprehensive than we thought
Last week we reported upon a rumour alleging that J.P. Morgan had asked some of its staff to tone down their profiles on LinkedIn. At the time we thought this might be spurious given that J.P. Morgan’s...
View ArticleIs it possible to get M&A experience outside of banking, and then get a...
Is it ever possible to leave investment banking in order to get the deal experience needed to take a step up into an M&A role? Most go into the sector with one eye on the exit opportunities...
View ArticleFive people hired by Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Deutsche and BAML in...
Who got hired by big banks in London during February? Where was the moving, shaking and rush to distance oneself from bad bonuses? Changes to the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Register suggest...
View ArticleHow to turn a fast food job into a career at Goldman Sachs
Getting your foot in the door at Goldman Sachs typically requires a blue-chip pedigree just for starters. You certainly can’t be unemployed and degree-less. Or maybe you can. Goldman this week provided...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Listen up! We’re hiring in Singapore IBD and others aren’t,...
Both Evercore and RHB are suddenly talking up investment-banking headcount expansions in Singapore just days after news broke of job cuts as Goldman Sachs, CIMB and RBS. Coincidence? We think not....
View ArticleThe “ticking timebomb” of burnout in banking compliance jobs
Junior investment bankers aren’t the only ones suffering from burnout in Asian financial services. Growing workloads triggered by constant regulatory change are causing more compliance professionals in...
View ArticleThe worst career advice given to junior investment bankers
When you start out in banking, there’s no shortage of people looking to doll out career advice. Junior bankers are given mentors, networking opportunities to connect with influential people within the...
View ArticleMore equities departures at Citi, this time also in research
Citi’s European cash equities business is in the process of being ‘improved’. People have been leaving from equities sales and trading. Now it seems that people are leaving from equity research too....
View ArticleAre you temperamentally suited to M&A, trading, operations, research or risk?
Are you in the correct investment banking job for you? Does your role suit your temperament? – Your preferred method of working? – The sorts of tasks you’re particularly interested in? Equally, if...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: “China’s HSBC” is hiring 60 in Hong Kong
HSBC may be generating plenty of unflatering headlines across the globe right now, but in Hong Kong it seems other firms want to be just like the British bank. The growth strategy of Ping An Bank, part...
View Article“Ugly side” of Asian banking revealed as firms hire, fire then keep clients
Private banks in Asia are quick to bemoan the shortage of quality relationship managers (RMs) in the region and they are now becoming increasingly quick to fire new recruits who don’t perform in their...
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