Barclays has rolled out another 10% rate cut for all contractors in the UK...
What to do if you’re a contractor working in the financial sector who’s been hit with (another) 10% rate cut? Last year, when the banking world was floundering under an ever-growing number of job cuts,...
View ArticleWhat the layoffs at Zurich tell you about the market for insurance jobs
Banks aren’t the only financial services institutions cutting costs and trimming staff. Zurich Insurance is cutting 800 jobs globally in an effort to save itself $250m. This follows a series of other...
View ArticleSix questions you should prepare to answer in any junior trading interview
We can’t tell you the exact questions that you will be asked when you sit down in an interview for a trading position: that will depend not only on the company and the interviewer, but on the the state...
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Wo in der Welt die dicksten Boni gezahlt werden
In welchem Finanzzentrum rund um den Globus sollten Sie sich niederlassen, wenn Sie den höchsten Bonus einstreichen wollen? Erstaunlicherweise handelt es sich nach der eFinancialCareers-Bonus-Survey...
View ArticleLa proposition choc du Medef qui pourrait dissuader les financiers de partir...
Les financiers qui partent ou envisagent de quitter leur employeur en négociant un « chèque de départ » pourraient vouloir réviser leur projet si la nouvelle proposition du Medef voyait le jour. Pour...
View ArticleHow to land a new job when you have no time to look
It’s a bit of a Catch-22. You’re looking for a new job, in part, due to the massive number of hours you’re putting in at your current position. But those hours keep you in the office, making it near...
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Where to go if you want to find ex-UBS bankers simulating a beach party in...
We already know that the men of UBS are somewhat smooth. If you want to see their smoothness in action alongside ‘film producers, athletes, fashion taste-makers’ and other bankers, in a beach-like...
View ArticleThe candidates in Asia who spam 50 identical emails to 50 recruiters at the...
Mainland China is still a candidate-led job market in which finance professionals are frequently enticed to change companies. But job searching in the PRC is by no means straightforward, especially if...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: End game at Barclays? How to avoid the six year bonus clawbacks
How many different chief executives can one investment bank stand? If you look at the recent history of UBS, the answer would seem to be quite a few. Investment bankers at Barclays have been used to a...
View ArticleOrcel verdient mehr als sein Chef: Das Wichtigste aus dem UBS Vergütungsbericht
Um 44 Prozent auf 4,1 Mrd. Franken konnte die UBS ihren „bereinigten“ Vorsteuergewinn in 2013 steigern. Grund genug, um den Bonuspool randvoll aufzufüllen. Hier die wichtigsten Fakten aus dem...
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Andrea Orcel and the strangely enormous benefit payments
Unlike Eric Bommensath and Tom King at Barclays, Andrea Orcel is very popular as the chief executive of UBS’s investment banking. Today’s UBS remuneration report contains a gushing appraisal of Orcel’s...
View ArticleBack office workers getting the boot from New York, London
Banks that have been methodically moving back office staffers to cheaper locales are planning to step up their efforts. In a decade, just a sliver of Wall Street’s support staff will remain in...
View ArticleFamily officer : un métier souvent méconnu et pourtant en plein développement
Parce qu’il cultive à fond la discrétion, le monde du Family Office reste souvent méconnu des candidats en finance. Saviez-vous que ce secteur comptait plusieurs dizaines de milliers de structures dans...
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Nine strange things you didn’t know from the UBS bonus plan
How will you get paid if you work at UBS? Today’s remuneration report offers some guidance. As we’ve already noted, Andrea Orcel - chief executive of the investment bank – has done very well for...
View ArticleHow to dress like you should be a banking big-shot
Late July in Cambridge and the swarms of tourists are given a rare photo opportunity. It is graduation day and the university’s students walk in procession from their ancient colleges, through the...
View ArticleDeutsche does not have a ‘soft hiring freeze’ in London. It just hasn’t hired...
Does Deutsche Bank have a ‘soft hiring freeze’ at its London office? London-based financial services recruiters say they’ve been informed that it has. Deutsche Bank tells us that it hasn’t. And yet a...
View ArticleShould Barclays’ US ex-Lehman business spin out and go it alone?
A note is doing the rounds from analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. It suggests that now might be a good time for Barclays’ ex-Lehman bankers in the US to unpick the deal done by Bob Diamond and...
View ArticleCareer Crunch: Finance firms gearing up for Q2 expansion, tips on how to miss...
Missed the articles that could make a real difference to your finance career over the past week? Fear not, catch up on the top stories on eFinancialCareers over the past seven days. Where in the world...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Yes, BAML is hiring in London. How to be 26 and drive a...
While senior fixed income bankers quit the likes of Morgan Stanley for hedge funds, one bank seems to be building its fixed income business despite the challenging market conditions. That bank is Bank...
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Das ultimative Ranking: Welche deutsche Bank in 2013 am besten zahlte
Mit der Hypo Vereinsbank (HVB) hat die letzte deutsche Großbank ihre Ergebnisse für 2013 präsentiert. Damit ist wieder die Zeit für unser ultimatives Ranking gekommen: Welche Bank hat in 2013 am besten...
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