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Five things you need to know about the bomb scare at Barclays’ Canary Wharf HQ
1. It involved a lunch box and a Boris bike Someone reportedly left their lunchbox on a Boris bike outside Barclays’ Canary Wharf office today. This was spotted around 9am. 2. A bomb disposal robot...
View ArticleFour reasons why you should want to join Pimco’s equities team
Pimco, the once dominant bond giant run by eclectic founder Bill Gross, is planning a deeper dive into equities. The firm is looking to hire as many as 16 new equities staffers, split between senior...
View ArticleDoes it really matter that you’re not joining an investment bank in the front...
If you’re thinking of leaving university and going to work in an investment bank, you may already be familiar with the terms ‘front office, ‘middle office,’ and ‘back office.’ If you’re not, then maybe...
View ArticleEight of the hottest careers in Australian financial services right now
If you’re looking for a finance job in Australia or looking to move Down Under to find one, beware that some functions are decidedly hotter than others. Front-office investment bankers are still not,...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: JPMorgan to compensate low pay with hipsterish decor....
JPMorgan can be a big payer. In London, the average analyst at the bank is said to earn £58k, while the average managing director earns £827k. In 2012 (the last year for which figures are available),...
View ArticleTipps von M&A-Profis: Wie Sie bei einem Praktikum eine Festanstellung...
Konnten Sie sich auch ein Sommer-Praktikum bei einer Investmentbank sichern? Herzliche Glückwünsche. Allerdings haben Sie damit noch längst kein Übernahmeangebot in der Tasche. Denn es ist keinesfalls...
View ArticleToday’s results prove that RBS still has some excellent traders. Why do they...
RBS’s results are out. They’re pretty good. Revenues in the largely fixed income currencies and commodities (FICC) dominated investment bank fell a mere 8% in difficult markets. Operating profit in the...
View ArticleEx-UBS trader Hughes has repositioned himself as a hot shot technologist
For someone that’s just been banned from working in the City by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), John Hughes has the air of a man who doesn’t much care. In fact, his whole investment banking...
View ArticleShareholders urged to vote ‘no’ on Morgan Stanley pay plans
May is finally here, and with it comes the annual tradition of shareholders and advisory groups complaining about executive pay. First came Barclays, then Coca-Cola, and now Morgan Stanley. The bank...
View ArticleSimon Samuels, top-ranked banking analyst at Barclays, is retiring
Another senior banker with a long and illustrious career in the City is said to be calling it a day. Headhunters say Simon Samuels, Barclays’ top-ranked banking analyst, is preparing to retire in the...
View ArticleLeading indicator for M&A hires: Langbourn Partners, new M&A search boutique,...
The emergence of new headhunting firms is usually a good indication that recruitment is picking up in a sector. A few years ago, fixed income search firms were engaged in frantic meiosis in London....
View ArticleCome to London and get paid in cash!! EU bank compensation rules backfire...
When the European Union conceived its bonus cap, the intention was undoubtedly that pay for ‘bankers’ would fall. The City of London was undoubtedly supposed to be at the vanguard of this reduction....
View ArticleCareer Crunch: Key London financial services headhunters, how Goldman quizzes...
It’s been an active week for Barclays with the departure of key U.S executives and bomb scare outside its London HQ. Catch up on this and other top stories on eFinancialCareers over the past week. Six...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Goldman Sachs’ hidden camera pranks on its senior staff....
People at Goldman Sachs have a sense of humour. Bloomberg reports that Goldman executives have been hiring actors to perform ‘hidden camera pranks’ on senior partners who are seemingly accepting of...
View ArticleDie sieben spannendsten Fakten aus dem UBS-Ergebnis
Obgleich die Erträge bei der UBS im ersten Quartal um 7 Prozent auf 7,3 Mrd. Franken einbrachen, lag der Vorsteuergewinn der Schweizer Großbank mit 1,4 Mrd. Franken sogar leicht über dem...
View ArticleSurprise! Massive pay cut at Barclays’ investment bank. Investment bank...
It is a morning of surprises, or not. Both Barclays and UBS have reported their first quarter results. Neither are especially good, but UBS’s contain some surprisingly good news and Barclays’ contain...
View ArticleInvestment banks and private equity firms battle for ‘elite’ junior bankers
Everyone wants a good junior investment banker these days. Unfortunately for any analysts and associates assuming that they’re hot stuff, both banks and private equity firms are only fighting to...
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Le job financier à 2.000 euros la journée
L’intérim a le vent en poupe. En France, 68 % des entreprises intègrent des salariés temporaires spécialisés dans la finance et la comptabilité, indique le cabinet de recrutement Robert Half à...
View ArticleThe new rules for succeeding in an investment bank
It’s taken a while, but the changing of the guard at Barclays is another sign that the cultural changes called for at investment banks are finally being consummated. At Barclays, needless to say, brash...
View ArticleWhy breaking up is hard to do in banking
There’s one main common denominator that drives executive pay at banks, and it’s not performance. The key driver in executive compensation in banking is simply the size of the institution. In a rather...
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