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View ArticleMorning Coffee: JPMorgan says it wants robots, not humans. How banking...
Robots have many advantages over humans when it comes to trading. They are faster, less fallible, and are increasingly human beings’ preferred method of executing trades. This is why JPMorgan won’t be...
View ArticleGerman banks look like the worst payers
U.S. investment banks, with their traditional generosity and easy side-step of the EU bonus cap rules, have long been the place to earn the biggest big bonuses in London, while their European...
View ArticleCes innovations numériques qui pourraient bousculer le quotidien des financiers
À l’occasion du Forum Netexplo qui se tient en ce moment à Paris, une centaine d’innovations numériques du monde entier sont mises en avant, car jugées parmi les plus prometteuses. Certaines de ces...
View ArticleBNP Paribas rescues senior fixed income trader from Morgan Stanley
Simon Birch, a senior FX trader at Morgan Stanley, is understood to have joined BNP Paribas in a senior EMEA fixed income trading role. A colleague of Birch’s confirmed his departure of Morgan Stanley....
View ArticleIs Teach First really an alternative route into a graduate job at Goldman Sachs?
What do you do if you wanted to work at Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, or another well known bank when you left university, but you didn’t get in? Of course, you could always choose to do a Masters in...
View ArticleWhisky zut alors! Jérôme Kerviel’s boss now runs a distillery
Jérôme Kerviel has a new life away from the financial sector, much of which involves taking long contemplative walks during a two-month charity hike before his three-year prison term for his part in...
View ArticleThe three styles of interview questions asked by investment banks
As we mentioned last week, we recently came across an old investment banking recruitment guide from UBS. While it’s from 2010, there are a number of useful tips that can help win over any bank in the...
View ArticleCareer Crunch: How to fit in at Goldman Sachs, the workaholic lives of former...
Catch up on the top stories on eFinancialCareers over the past seven days. The ideal background for working at Goldman Sachs What do the current Goldman Sachs employees tell you about what it takes to...
View ArticleHundreds of traders caught up in latest Wall Street scandal
Financial regulators have formally opened an investigation into the latest rigging scandal to engulf Wall Street and the City of London involving hundreds of investment banks’ sales and trading staff...
View ArticleDeutsche Bank-Co-Chef Anshu Jain bei CFA-Prüfung durchgefallen
Die niedrige Erfolgsquote bei den CFA-Examen hat jetzt ein prominentes Opfer gefunden. Aus dem Umfeld der CFA Society Germany hieß es, dass der Co-Vorsitzende der Deutschen Bank Anshu Jain an den...
View ArticleSeven areas where you should want to work in the Middle East financial sector...
The financial services job market in the Middle East is looking decidedly more upbeat than the last five years so far in 2014, but all sectors are not created equal. While some, notably investment...
View ArticleThe worst tricks that candidates have played on recruiters
It’s April Fool’s day. Various fooleries are circulating, to be unmasked at midday according to the tradition in the UK. If you’re based on Wall Street, you have a few more hours in which to come up...
View ArticleDeutsche Bank will Inhouse Consulting ausbauen: Wie der Einstieg gelingt
Schon seit Jahren macht die Consultingbranche mit Finanzdienstleistern ein sehr gutes Geschäft. Die wachsende Regulierung, der Zwang zu Kosteneinsparungen und Prozessoptimierung sowie die...
View ArticleInvaluable advice for bankers in their 30s, from bankers in their 40s
A few weeks ago, we ran an article about the psychologist specializing in the problems of 20-somethings who’s been lecturing analysts and associates at Goldman Sachs. ‘Don’t think your 20s are...
View ArticleQuand les étudiants en finance lorgnent sur d’autres secteurs que la banque
Universum vient de publier sa dernière étude intitulée ‘À quels employeurs nos étudiants français rêvent-ils en 2014 ?’ qui sonde plus de 36.000 étudiants de niveau Master issus d’école de commerce, de...
View ArticleHow to style your hair if you want to get in with Gaël de Boissard at Credit...
Credit Suisse is making redundancies. As we’ve observed, the Swiss bank has parted company with various people over the past few weeks and is attempting to curtail costs in its investment bank after...
View ArticleTout ce que vous devez savoir sur l’emploi dans les banques françaises
Les quatre grandes groupes français – BNP Paribas, Société Générale, Credit Agricole et BPCE – ont tous maintenant publié leur document de référence 2014. Dans ces comptes-rendus exhaustifs de l’année...
View ArticleHere’s how much you can earn after two years in high frequency trading
Thanks to Michael Lewis, high frequency trading is all the rage. Admittedly, it may be all the rage for all the wrong reasons, but still. The high frequency trading (HFT) dark side is clearly a...
View ArticleThe bizarre Asian banking role where banks want to hire but candidates don’t...
Change management was the counter-cyclical job function of choice in the wake of the financial crisis in Asia. When banks in the region were swinging the axe in 2008 (and again three years later) they...
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