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Are BNP Paribas’ fixed income traders the best in the world?
In their deepest unspoken fantasies, BNP Paribas’s corporate and investment bankers probably feel that they deserve some pretty reasonable bonuses this year. Sure, their employer has just revealed the...
View ArticleBloomberg terminal deprivation: How to handle it
What’s the worst thing about losing your trading job in an investment bank? No, it’s not the loss of money. It’s not the loss of prestige. It’s not the end of eating games. It’s the loss of access to a...
View ArticleWhat’s the minimum score you can get on CFA Level I, and still pass?
Yesterday was CFA results day. As ever, only a minority of people waiting for their CFA score found that they passed the exams – 42% passed Level I, to be specific – which was at least better than the...
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Das ultimative Ranking: Welche Schweizer Bank am besten zahlt
Nachdem die wichtigsten Banken der Schweiz ihre Geschäftszahlen für das erste Halbjahr vorgelegt haben, ist wieder die Zeit für unser ultimatives Ranking gekommen: Wer zahlt am besten und wo sind die...
View ArticleBanking pay: Are you expecting too much for doing too little?
Are you pricing yourself out of the market? It’s a question that’s worth asking in light of a) banks’ attempts to reduce their compensation ratios, b) banks’ need to hire hundreds of extra compliance...
View ArticleJunior expats not so welcome for banking jobs in Singapore as new hiring...
If you’re a junior finance professional looking to relocate to Singapore for a banking job, your chances of securing a role in the city state are rapidly receding. Junior foreign candidates are set to...
View ArticleLa vie sans fard ni paillettes d’un jeune banquier d’investissement
À quoi ressemble vraiment la vie d’un banquier d’investissement aussi jeune que naïf ? Quelles compétences faut-il pour briller ou à tout le moins survivre ? Et si vous surmontez tous les obstacles, à...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Goldman, Barclays, UBS bankers deemed most attractive....
Where should you work if you a) want appealing colleagues, b) want to be deemed appealing yourself? Try Goldman Sachs. Data from Hinge, a dating application, suggests that within the finance sector,...
View ArticleWestliche Bewerber kommen in Singapur immer seltener zum Zug
Falls Sie ein junger ambitionierter Finanzprofi sind und auf einen Karriereschritt in Singapur hoffen, dann sollten Sie sich beeilen. Denn Ihre Chancen sinken rapide. Junge ausländische Kandidaten sind...
View ArticleWie viele Punkte erforderlich sind, um einen CFA zu bestehen
Die CFA-Ergebnisse der Juniprüfungen liegen vor. Wie immer hat nur eine Minderheit der Teilnehmer die Prüfung bestanden: Mit 42 Prozent liegt die Quote allerdings spürbar über den 38 Prozent aus dem...
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Is Morgan Stanley the best bank for European cash equities jobs? Is JPMorgan...
Which are the best banks in which to situate yourself if you want to work in European customer-facing cash equities sales and trading? Markit thinks it knows. The data provider, which recently went...
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Banking resume clinic: What are my chances of getting a business analyst job...
This is the first in our series of (soon-to-be) regular resume clinics in which we ask our top resume doctors to give their verdicts on whether your CV will get you the job you want in financial...
View ArticleAgeism in banking: How old is too old to keep trying?
You may be surprised to hear this, but some people who work in banking are aged 50+. Chief executives require grey hairs: Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs is 59. James Gorman,...
View ArticleBanking layoffs warning: Deutsche Bank’s ominous note
For a brief moment, it seemed that things were getting better. June was a good month for banks’ sales and trading businesses. When JPMorgan presented its second quarter results last month, CFO Marianne...
View ArticleWill the Fair Consideration Framework help boost banking pay in Singapore?
A new Singaporean law aimed at encouraging firms to hire more locals could also potentially boost the earnings of some foreign banking candidates, if their salaries would otherwise have fallen slightly...
View ArticleLes jobs stars en Suisse cet été
Les températures grimpent et les vacances d’été battent leur plein aussi en Suisse. Et pourtant, pas question de parler de pause estivale pour le marché du travail helvète, en particulier pour les...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Fare-dodging fund manager unlikely to work in finance again,...
The ‘City highflier’ who was cheap, or foolish, enough to deliberately avoid paying over £43,000 in train fares when commuting into London from a country railway station has now been unmasked as...
View ArticleWeiterer Personalabbau in Sicht: Die ominöse Analysten-Einschätzung der...
Für einen Moment sah es danach aus, als wenn es im Investment Banking wieder aufwärts gehen würde. Denn der Juni stellte für das Sales & Trading-Geschäft einen guten Monat dar. Bei der Präsentation...
View ArticleHSBC is increasing banker salaries, plans to grow in FX
HSBC says it is facing pressure to raise salaries and invest in staff training as it bids to keep hold of key employees. Unfortunately, and predictably, this is largely for risk and compliance staff –...
View ArticleWhy it pays to make it to partner at a hedge fund
If you’re working for a hedge fund it pays to be in the partnership. Like the senior ranks in private equity firms, who get a slice of the truly lucrative carried interest, partners – or members – in...
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