Barclays’ Jobs: Tom King says you’re probably safe if you work on...
If you want to work for Barclays, then Tom King is the person to know. An M&A banker by trade, King was promoted to become chief executive of Barclays’ investment bank in May 2014. Since then,...
View ArticleYour escape route to avoid year-end banking layoffs in Singapore and Hong Kong
Are you an Asian investment banker currently fretting about looming year-end layoffs as your firm formulates its headcount plans for 2015? Want to make a pre-emptive move? One common route out of the...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: JPMorgan, Credit Suisse, Citi, Barclays all say things are...
There is light at the end of the tunnel – particularly if you work in banks’ struggling fixed income trading businesses. This is the week of Barclays’ Financial Services Conference, and the banks...
View ArticleDamien Hirst-collecting bond trader has left UBS
It’s the late-1980s and the appearance of the sort of bumper bonuses that became commonplace in the noughties are just starting to come into fruition. How do you spend your annual payout? Keep the...
View ArticlePimco’s new growth plans have nothing to do with bonds
Bill Gross’s long-running and once highly-celebrated Pimco Total Return Fund has suffered net redemptions for 15 consecutive months, due mainly to a poor performing bond market and some turmoil within...
View ArticleThe best bargain for a top undergraduate finance degree
If you want to work on Wall Street, go to the University of Pennsylvania – whether for your graduate or post-graduate degree, it appears to offer the shortest avenue to a top banking job. In March,...
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CFA, MBA, ACA, ACCA oder CIMA: Welche Qualifikation sich wirklich auszahlt
Bei der Auswahl der geeigneten Weiterbildung gibt es zwei entscheidende Fragen: Welche Qualifikation bietet die meisten Jobchancen und welche zahlt sich besonders aus? Wir haben die Lebensläufe...
View ArticleThe five questions that will convert your banking interview into a job offer
Are you going for a banking interview? Do you want to get a job at the end of it? If so, you’ll need to ask some questions of your own. Interviewers frown upon unprepared candidates without any...
View ArticleUne toute nouvelle réalité pour les jeunes banquiers d’investissement
Les banques d’investissement sont amenées à travailler toujours plus dur pour attirer les meilleurs diplômés des grandes écoles, mais sont aussi souvent déçues par les compétences que ces derniers leur...
View Article11 tips for getting recruiters to find you a banking job in Singapore or Hong...
If you’re looking for a banking job in Singapore or Hong Kong you may well be asking recruitment agencies in those cities to help you in your search. You may also be aware that recruiters don’t hold...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: A £500k job that will ‘destroy’ you. BofA cutting...
How much would you tolerate in return for half a million pounds ($810k) a year? If you work for BGC Partners, the inter-dealer broking firm, you might have to put up with a bit. Bloomberg reports that...
View ArticleCiti hedge fund veterans go it alone
The former head of sales and capital introduction for Citigroup’s European prime finance division, Paul Harvey, has just received regulatory approval to launch his own hedge fund product, along with...
View ArticleINTERVIEW PwC-Managerin: Wie lassen sich Kinder und Karriere in M&A...
Nach einem BWL-Studium hat Astrid Mayerhöfer 1995 ihre Karriere im Bereich Corporate Finance bei PwC begonnen, wo sie sich kurz darauf auf M&A spezialisierte. In 2000 wechselt sie als...
View ArticleHow to get an entry level job in equity capital markets
Stock markets may be the public face of the financial sector, but before a company’s shares can be traded, they must be created and it’s the equity capital markets (ECM) investment bankers who help...
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Plus de 3.500 CDI à décrocher chez les Big Four
Signe tangible de reprise : les Big Four prévoient de recruter plus de 3.500 personnes en CDI l’an prochain en France. Un chiffre en hausse de 19% par rapport aux prévisions pour 2014, communiquées il...
View ArticleSenior FIG banker leaves Standard Chartered after four months, joins Lloyds
At the top of the tree in investment banking, people moves are glacial affairs – six-month notice periods, gardening leave and, increasingly, “puritanism and risk aversion” delaying the hiring process....
View ArticleCompliance jobs in banks: High pressure, high reward
While many professions today are not much different from what they were ten years ago, the role of the compliance professional in banking can certainly be said to have undergone more change in recent...
View ArticleBarclays is letting go of 45 people a day. But who are they exactly?
To talk to fixed income recruiters in London, you’d think Barclays investment bank was in the middle of a bloodbath. “It’s awful there,” says one. “Whole swathes of people are being cut. 20 at a time,...
View ArticleWie Sie bei der Fragerunde am Ende eines Vorstellungsgesprächs punkten
Am Ende eines jeden Vorstellungsgesprächs erhält der Bewerber die Gelegenheit selbst Fragen zu stellen. Diese Chancen sollte sich ein Kandidat nicht entgehen lassen; erlaubt dies doch Extrapunkte zu...
View ArticleThe newly hot accounting job in Singapore and Hong Kong
If you work at the Big Four and are looking for a new accounting job in Singapore or Hong Kong, now may be a good time to consider a move to the banking sector. Banks in Asia are scrambling to fill...
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