Finance recruiters reveal the most miraculous career changes in Asia Pacific
Cut backs in commodities, dissatisfaction in investment banking and (of course) offshoring in operations – finance careers in Asia Pacific are in a state of flux. As a result, recruiters in Hong Kong,...
View ArticleUn jumeau travaille en banque d’investissement et l’autre pas : lequel est le...
Nous avons parlé à Manya Klempner, titulaire d’un MBA de la Columbia Business School. Elle a passé huit ans en banque d’investissement, chargée du marketing des produits dérivés chez JPMorgan puis Bank...
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„Weckruf“: Geht der Stellensegen im Corporate Banking zu Ende?
Der deutsche Arbeitsmarkt für Corporate Banking kennt seit einigen Monaten einen neuen Boom-Markt, wie er ihn abgesehen von Compliance, Risikomanagent und Beratung seit der Finanzkrise nicht mehr...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Barclays tries new method of behavioural modification....
It’s tried a ‘no jerks’ policy. It’s tried behavioural change through management jargon. It’s tried cutting bonuses in the wake of misdemeanours. Now, still smarting from the transgressions involving...
View ArticleInvestment bank’s expanding internal hedge fund hires Goldman Sachs trader
BTG Pactual, the Brazilian investment bank, may be expanding its London office by bringing in up to 100 new commodities staff this year, but its UK operation still primarily operates as an asset...
View Article31-year-old ex-Barclays trader finds ‘fun’ job in trendy new area of finance
This is not the best time to be working in fixed income for Barclays in London. Nearly 30% of Barclays’ investment banking staff are being made redundant, and Barclays’ London-based fixed income...
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Six incredibly difficult maths puzzles that only the world’s elite can answer
How good are you at math (or ‘maths’ if you live in the UK)? If you’re at all mathematically accomplished, you’ll easily answer the international PISA Test questions aimed at 15 year olds globally....
View ArticleWhy are coverage bankers disappearing from UBS?
Curious things are afoot at UBS. It’s been an OK year for M&A and the Swiss bank hasn’t said anything about pulling back from the business, but people seem to be leaving. Financial News reports...
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Are these the best businesses in the best banks if you’re doing a banking...
If you’re a summer analyst (intern) in an investment bank, you may be wondering what your chances of converting your internship into an offer of a full time graduate job are. As we’ve said before,...
View ArticleDeutsche’s ‘super start-up’ hedge fund bolsters pay and headcount
Arrowgrass Capital Partners, the $4.5bn hedge fund spun out from Deutsche Bank’s convertible bond franchise at the height of the financial crisis in 2008, has nearly doubled pay for its partners over...
View ArticleHVB will 500 Mio. für DAB Bank: Doch lohnt sich die Arbeit bei der Direktbank...
Einen stolzen Preis verlangt die HVB für ihre Onlinebanking-Tochter DAB Bank. Laut Informationen des Handelsblatts will die Unicredittochter 500 Mio. Euro für die DAB Bank einstreichen. An der Börse...
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Morgan Stanley’s guide to the best jobs in banking in 2014 and beyond
Which jobs in banking will serve you well in 2014 and offer continuous employment for the next few years (at least)? Which jobs in banking are a direct route to redundancy and the strain of...
View ArticleWere Obama’s comments on Wall Street pay out of touch?
It’s been a while since President Obama took a public shot at Wall Street. Maybe he was just saving up for a good one. The president, while lauding the positive effects of Dodd-Frank, went out of his...
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Statistiquement, voici les qualifications les plus utiles pour votre...
Comment faut-il s’y prendre aujourd’hui pour améliorer son employabilité dans l’industrie des services financiers notamment à l’étranger ? Vaut-il mieux se lancer dans un Master en finance (formations...
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Investment banks cut graduate recruitment, receiving fewer applications
Investment banks are receiving fewer applications for graduate jobs and have cut the number of roles they’re recruiting for, despite promises of reducing working hours for junior employees. Since the...
View ArticleSo, is a move to Millennium Capital Partners simply too risky?
If you want a job in a hedge fund, Millennium Capital Partners has been the fund to go for. The London-based iteration of Millennium Management, the New York-based fund with $23bn under management, has...
View ArticleScandal fueling job growth at BNP; a back office unit creating front office jobs
In the latest hiring roundup, Barclays eyes an expanding market, boutiques are poaching sell-side equity analysts and Deutsche Bank opens the front office door in Birmingham. Blackstone’s hiring valve...
View Article7 men (and women) who’ve just started big new jobs in finance (and...
If you work in banking, hiring tends to beget hiring. One new senior recruit will often beget another as that individual hires in his/her former colleagues and ‘upgrades’ the existing team. This being...
View ArticleThe hot Aussie buy-side firms now offering ‘safe’ careers to jaded bankers
Once a decidedly insular sector, superannuation (mandatory retirement savings) in Australia is increasingly attracting local and global candidates from across financial services to fuel its inexorable...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: JPM-backed hedge fund hiring in London. Goldman Sachs chief...
Now that banks can’t do any proprietary trading of their own (except block trades related to IPOs), they’re funding hedge funds to do it for them instead. Yesterday we reported that Arrowgrass Capital...
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