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This 29 year-old banker went from 3rd year analyst to head of EMEA ECM...
Imagine: one minute you’re at university, the next you’re a trainee in an investment bank and then suddenly you’re the head of an entire investment banking business area before you’re even 30. This has...
View ArticleAsset managers ramp up bonuses to avoid staff defections
After a year when the asset management industry quashed regulatory interference over pay, increased headcount, and rode the wave of an equity-market surge, firms are set to increase bonuses by 10-15%...
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Mit nur 29 Jahren Spitzenbanker: Die erstaunliche Blitzkarriere des Daniel...
Vom Studenten zum Abteilungsleiter in einer Investmentbank. Blitzkarrieren sind auch heute noch möglich – zumindest in London, wo immerhin drei Viertel aller Spitzenverdiener unter den europäischen...
View ArticleWho works harder – bankers or lawyers? Lawyers give their verdict
You want to earn good money in a deal-driven environment working with big international companies filled with people who excelled academically. Assuming you don’t want to work for an international PR...
View ArticleDaily Dispatches – SE Asia provides slim but rich pickings for M&A recruiters
South East Asia is rapidly becoming the place to look to find the best dealmakers in Asia, according to a report by Reuters. The region has seen $46.5 billion worth of capital raisings, mergers and...
View ArticleThe bank that’s creating 2,000 jobs in 2014
Bank of China and Singapore’s Fullerton Financial Holdings (wholly owned by the sovereign wealth fund Temasek) jointly established the first BOC Fullerton Community Bank in China in March 2011 in...
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Vom Wrestling-Kommentator zum Investmentbanker: Die sonderbare Karriere des...
Wer die Übertragungen von US-Wrestling-Veranstaltungen im Deutschen Sportfernsehen für geschmacklos hält, sollte jetzt ein wenig mehr Ehrfurcht zeigen. Denn offenbar gibt es verschlungene Karrierewege,...
View ArticleSenior investment banker quits new job after two months for CEO role
At the beginning of October, upon the announcement that he’d been appointed as head of equity capital markets at the National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD), Yasser Geissah was talking up the potential of...
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Quand les banquiers se mettent à la moustache, ça donne ça…
La semaine passée, j’étais à la City pour un « catch up » avec mes collègues de l’équipe éditoriale d’eFinancialCareers. Dans les rues (et au bureau), j’ai été frappée par la foule de moustachus en...
View ArticleA good, simple trick for making yourself far more interesting to finance...
You may have an impeccable CV for a job in banking (or hedge funds, or fund management). But is that enough? If you want to get shortlisted, it will also help if you’re an interesting person with...
View ArticleHow Barclays, Goldman, RBS and others can sing their way to contrition
Citigroup embarked on a cunning PR exercise by taking part in BBC reality TV show The Choir, broadcast in the UK on BBC 2 last night, where they attempted to show that bankers are, after all, humans...
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The secret questions only the top 2% of young mathematicians can answer
Think you’re good at maths? Results to the OECD’s ‘Programme for International Student Assessment’ (PISA) are out today and have been causing upset in Western democracies like the US and the UK, whose...
View Article‘Ironic and Scary’: A brutally honest look at the life of an entry-level...
You’re young and bright-eyed – probably 25 or 26 – and you just lined up your first “real” job interview since graduating from college. You’re sitting down with a bulge-bracket bank to talk about a...
View ArticleDaily Dispatches – Singapore edges out Hong Kong on taxes
Singapore’s tax regime is making it more attractive than Hong Kong for companies and individuals, according to tax experts in the Lion City. The Singapore corporate tax rate in 2013 of 17% is slightly...
View ArticleWhere to expect a jobs boom in Asian investment banking in 2014
If you’re looking for a job in investment banking in China, your search will soon become a whole lot easier thanks to the lifting of a 14-month freeze on initial public offerings. More ECM and...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Downfall of Goldman trader who earned $1.75m aged 28. Where...
While you’ve been going about your daily life, celebrating family occasions, preparing for Christmas, losing hair, the cogs of justice have been churning for badly behaved ex-Goldman Sachs trader Matt...
View ArticleIntelligent, unscrupulous traders work for UBS. Foolish, naive traders work...
It’s the classic prisoner’s dilemma: you’re under investigation for manipulating Euribor rates. Do you shut up and let the regulator unearth what it may of your wrongdoings? Or do you admit culpability...
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Plus de 70% des établissements financiers veulent augmenter leurs effectifs...
Tout au long de l’année 2013, les banquiers M&A ont attendu le prétendu retour des deals, en vain. 2014 pourrait être enfin l’heure du vrai retournement de tendance. Thomson Reuters et le cabinet...
View ArticleHedge fund Marshall Wace ramps up partner pay to £83.6m
Nice work if you can get it – Marshall Wace, the $10.76bn hedge fund, shared £83.6m between its 15 members this year after a surge in profits on 2012. The hedge fund, one of Europe’s largest, has just...
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Key charts from Deutsche Bank’s report forecasting 20,000 investment banking...
Deutsche Bank analysts have just released a massive report full of predictions for investment banks in 2014. Before we go any further, you need to know this: Deutsche is predicting another 20,000...
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