Real-life interview questions asked to current Goldman Sachs employees
Goldman Sachs has dedicated significant time and manpower to improving its recruiting efforts since the economic crisis. Part of that was the launch of its new career site, which includes upwards of 70...
View ArticleRecrutement : les secteurs les plus porteurs à moyen et long terme
Les semaines passant, le mot « reprise » devient de moins en moins tabou dans la bouche des observateurs du marché de l’emploi en finance. Pour l’heure, pas de boom, mais de vrais sujets de...
View Article10 other ex-Lehman bankers likely to follow Skip McGee and leave Barclays...
Skip McGee has gone. His untimely departure, ostensibly ahead of Barclays’ need to establish an ‘intermediate holding company for its US operation’ almost certainly has something to do with pay. As we...
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Bonuses increase in the Middle East, but bankers leaving regardless
The Middle East financial sector faces a bout of job-hopping not seen since the boom years of 2006-07 as bankers look for new opportunities following disappointment over bonus payments – despite an...
View ArticleKonsolidierung im Private Banking: Welche Folgen die Safra...
Die Konsolidierung im Schweizer Private Banking kommt einen weiteren Schritt voran. Die Bank Safra Sarasin kauft das Wealth Management-Geschäft der US-Bank Morgan Stanley in der Schweiz, wie das...
View ArticleSlow death for smart staff in investment banks as ‘working ants’ take over
It’s not easy to take cost out of an investment bank. Chirantan Barua should know. Before becoming senior analyst for UK banks at Bernstein Research in London, Barua was an associate partner focused on...
View ArticleGender gap on Wall Street still needs mending
The latest diagnosis of the role of women on Wall Street still leaves much to be desired. Despite an aggressive PR focus on pushing for more women at the big table, very few have made it recently, and...
View ArticleUnderstated intellectuals take the helm at Barclays
Now that Barclays is officially creating a bad bank and Skip McGee is officially leaving Lehman, Barclays is changing. Fixed income is going down. Big swinging bankers are going down. Equities...
View ArticleSix tips for making the most of a job you want to quit, but can’t
You want to quit your job, but can’t. A combination of a foundering job market, reliance on big pay packets and the risk of taking a new position when redundancies are still rife in the banking sector...
View ArticleDer Siegeszug der Arbeitsameise: Wieso die hellen Mitarbeiter im...
Die Kosten im Investmentbanking zu drücken, stellt keine leichte Aufgabe dar. Niemand weiß dies besser als Chiran Barua. Denn bevor er als Bankenanalyst bei Bernstein Research in London anfing, war...
View ArticleRésultats BNP : les bonnes nouvelles viennent des métiers Actions et Conseil
Les résultats de BNP Paribas ont été largement éclipsés ce matin par les menaces de sanctions pénales aux Etats-Unis. La banque a prévenu que l’amende attendue pourrait largement dépasser les...
View ArticleDeferred stock bonuses back to being a lump of coal?
While bankers are never pleased with being paid in the deferred stock, sometimes it’s a blessing in disguise. Those in the U.S. who received deferred shares following the crisis likely aren’t...
View ArticleHigh-paying hedge fund swoops on Credit Suisse derivatives chief
Mathias Berenger, managing director and head of European vanilla options trading at Credit Suisse has left to join high-paying hedge fund Capula Investment Management. Berenger, a derivatives trading...
View ArticleBanquier au 21è siècle : les perspectives du dernier livre polémique de...
C’est un livre qui fait sensation. « Le Capital au XXIè siècle » de Thomas Piketty, l’économiste français spécialiste de l’étude des inégalités, suscite les louanges de toutes parts aux Etats-Unis :...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Impoverished ex-trader forced to rely on wife’s modest...
How long does it take before you run out of money when you leave a highly paid trading job? Stylianos Contogoulas, a former US dollar fixed income derivative swaps trader at Barclays suggests it’s...
View ArticleSechs Tipps, wie Sie das meiste aus einem verhassten Job machen
Viele Leute sind mit ihrem Job unzufrieden, dennoch gelingt ihnen der Absprung nicht. Unzufriedenheit stellt schon an sich ein Problem dar, denn demotivierte Mitarbeiter sind unproduktivere...
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Nomura does not really employ many women. Also, its FICC business operates in...
It’s Nomura’s full year results day. Some deeply weird things have come to pass. Firstly Nomura has voluntarily divulged that it doesn’t actually do women in its London and New York offices. Secondly,...
View ArticleHow investment banks are now poaching from floundering hedge funds
Former investment bankers who moved into the hedge fund sector are increasingly being swayed back to their former vocation in the wake of fund closures. In theory hedge funds are the place to be. With...
View ArticleIs RBS still a good bank in which to start your career?
Ostensibly, RBS’s shriveling markets and international banking business doesn’t look like a great bet for anyone planning a glittering career in banking. In the past three years, RBS has cut more than...
View ArticleU.S. brings out the claws in fight with BNP, Credit Suisse
In the eyes of many, banks are quite literally too big to jail. No one would dare criminally charge a bulge-bracket firm due to the catastrophic ramifications for bank, and potentially the economy in...
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