Morning Coffee: ECM bankers not enjoying deal bonanza, Goldman analyst...
Life is good for equity capital markets bankers in the UK – at least in theory. The flurry of deal activity in the first couple of months of 2014 has led many to predict a bonanza of a year, and yet...
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Where in the world the richest risk managers work
If you work in a risk management role in investment banking, congratulations – you are officially hot property. While most jobs have fluctuated in recent years, risk management professionals have...
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12,700 new UK financial services jobs in 2014, says optimistic report
As unfeasible as it sounds, especially to fixed income traders in large investment banks, employment in the UK financial services industry continued to increase last year. Headcount across the City...
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Schlechte Karten für Mitarbeiter? FED verdirbt Deutscher Bank, UBS und Credit...
Die ganze Lobbyarbeit der europäischen Banken war vergebens. Die US-Notenbank Fed zieht die Zügel bei der Eigenkapitalausstattung der ausländischen Banken mit einer Bilanzsumme von mehr als 50 Mrd....
View ArticleAs FX traders face the chop, FX techies are the new hot property
In the FX sector, man is losing out to machine. However, while expensive traders are being displaced by algorithms as the market becomes more electronified, banks are fighting over skilled...
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Deutsche Bank employees have the most to lose from new Fed rules
Deutsche Bank and Barclays have been lobbying against tougher new capital requirements for foreign banks in the U.S. for the last four years, but the Federal Reserve has decided to press ahead anyway....
View ArticleAsset managers eyeing headcount growth in 2014
When it comes to hiring, asset management may be the hottest sector in all of financial services in 2014. The only problem is that firms aren’t necessarily looking to add headcount in...
View ArticleVIDEO: How bankers are taking advantage of the foodie revolution
People enter finance for various reasons; prestige, earning power, parental pressure, but passion is rarely associated with a career in the sector. However, it’s essential to get ahead in the food...
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Les collaborateurs de CA CIB à la croisée des chemins
Les analystes et les médias ont salué les résultats de Credit Agricole ce matin pour le dernier trimestre et l’année 2013. Et il y avait de quoi, le groupe a renoué avec les bénéfices, soit 1,3 Mds €....
View ArticleSeven tips for staying sane in a job that drives you crazy
Banker burnout is an all-too-real phenomenon. Sure, employees in other industries face intense pressures, but likely not the same physical, mental and emotional burden as bankers, particularly at such...
View ArticleNatixis: chapeau bas aux équipes de…
Les efforts n’auront pas été vains. Natixis a profité d’une bonne maîtrise de ses coûts pour afficher un bénéfice net en hausse de 8% en 2013, à 1,12 milliard d’euros (hors impact de la réévaluation de...
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Old-school fixed income professionals thumb noses at all who predicted their...
If you listen to the great and the good (and occasionally, to this website), you may have thought fixed income sales and trading was a bad place to be. For the past few years, everyone who is anyone...
View ArticleWhat slump? Hedge fund investors happy, ready for more
Oh to work in the hedge fund industry. Despite getting thrashed by the S&P last year, hedge funds are expected to see a surge of fresh assets this year from happy investors with relatively modest...
View ArticleListen: don’t use an MBA as a springboard for a sales and trading role
Firstly – a confession, I’m an MBA who attended a top business school with the intention of going into sales and trading. Secondly, I’m not here to bang on about my ‘ruinous investment’ in the same way...
View ArticleHow to spot psychopaths, narcissists and Machiavellians, based upon behavior...
Do you suspect colleagues of being psychopaths? How about Machiavellian schemers? Or self-regarding narcissists? Suspect no more. A group of academics at the University of Texas El Paso has come up...
View ArticleThis tiny investment bank is competing with the likes of Goldman Sachs,...
For a small investment bank that likes to fly under the radar, Allen & Co is certainly getting involved with some big ticket deals. It’s just moved back into the top ten global rankings for M&A...
View ArticleWie Sie mit einem Job zurechtkommen, der Sie in den Wahnsinn treibt
Burnout stellt unter Bankern ein nur allzu bekanntes Phänomen dar. Sicherlich stehen viele Beschäftigten auch in anderen Branchen unter Druck – allerdings dürften die körperlichen, mentalen und...
View ArticleFour easy technological tricks to make your resume stand out
While the content of your resume is always the most critical, there are a few small tricks you can use to better differentiate yourself and avoid confusion. These tips, courtesy of the Addison Group’s...
View ArticleWhy would BNP Paribas be laying off U.S. investment bankers right now?
BNP Paribas is laying off investment bankers at its seventh avenue office in New York. So says Dealbreaker, which claims the French bank booked out the entire 9th floor to inform unfortunate employees...
View ArticleWant a bigger bonus? You’d better be a team player, especially in Asia
“Teamworking”: you write it on your resume to please recruiters and then cite dubious examples of it during job interviews, but you never really think about it when you’re actually in the office –...
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