Ban may open up PwC for poaching war with Big Four rivals
PricewaterhouseCoopers’ financial advisory unit took a hit on the chin on Monday, agreeing to a two-year ban on certain consulting assignments along with a $25m fine for reportedly watering down an...
View ArticleGoldman poaches aren’t the end of Cantor Fitzgerald’s FX push
With larger investment banks pulling resources from fixed income teams, brokerage Cantor Fitzgerald is remaining aggressive. The New York firm hired two foreign exchange sales and trading execs this...
View ArticlePourquoi vous n’êtes pas fait pour travailler dans la banque d’investissement...
Votre carrière en banque d’investissement durera t-elle toute votre vie ou bien concernera-elle seulement une courte période entre vos 25-30 ans ? Quels sont les signes avant-coureurs qui montrent que...
View ArticleWie Kandidaten nach einem Vorstellungsgespräch geschickt nachfassen
Nach dem Spiel ist vor dem Spiel – das gilt auch für Vorstellungsgespräche. Denn nach einem erfolgten Interview können Kandidaten durch geschicktes Nachfassen, Extrapunkte sammeln oder es sich mit...
View ArticleLes 70 sociétés de private equity les plus aptes à verser un carried interest
Avant de vous précipiter dans le secteur du capital investissement, cela vaut la peine d’identifier quelles sont les sociétés qui sont susceptibles d’offrir les meilleurs packages de rémunération....
View ArticleMorning Coffee: 2014 analyst bonuses fall to a mere $55k, UK hedge fund...
Investment banks junior recruits receive their bonuses in August, not January in line with their more senior colleagues and numbers are now starting to leak out. Generally, investment banks are hiking...
View ArticleThe new reality of getting promoted in an investment banking job
Assuming you’ve been working in financial services for more than a couple of years, you will have noticed profound changes in the way your organisation operates. Banks are dealing with the economic...
View ArticleBayernLB spart sich beim Personal gesund
Die Geschäftszahlen der BayernLB können sich sehen lassen. Im ersten Halbjahr generierten die Münchner einen Vorsteuergewinn von 527 Mio. Euro. In dem Vorjahresergebnis von 813 Mio. Euro war noch ein...
View ArticleFive new London financial services firms that could be hiring
If you want to get ahead of the competition in your job search, it’s worth knowing which firms are new to the City of London and likely to be expanding. Corporate finance boutique IMAS has tracked the...
View ArticleHedge fund bonuses no longer buy a Ferrari, but will get a Mayfair parking space
If you want to make the big bucks working for a hedge fund, you really need to make it to partner where you’ll gain a share of whatever profits the firm brings in. Outside of the upper ranks, hedge...
View ArticleGoldman opens its wallet to junior bankers, rivals likely to follow suit
The writing has been on the wall for a while now. Banks must treat their junior staffers with more love in order to stay competitive with Silicon Valley and other employers of top talent. First came...
View ArticleEvery resume word you’ll ever need
Ever felt like you need a thesaurus to update your resume? After all, how many times can you really use the word ‘analyze’ under one job? Below is a list of nearly every office-related action word...
View ArticleTudor Investment Corporation’s co-founder on how to be a great hedge...
To describe Peter Borish as the forgotten man of Tudor Investment Corporation would be harsh, but his light certainly shines less brightly than his co-founder Paul Tudor Jones, who remains at the helm...
View ArticleSeven banking skills you’re bound to need by 2024
If you have been around the investment banking industry for as long as I have (I started in the back office of a small IB in 1993), you will have undoubtedly witnessed an amazing transformation (and...
View ArticleLes deux pires gaffes en entretien ayant conduit à des offres fermes d’emplois
Couvrant Wall Street depuis maintenant quelques années, j’ai développé un vice particulier ou si vous préférez un plaisir coupable : les histoires d’entretiens explosives… A la fin de chaque...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Investment bankers not welcome at Jackson Hole, JPMorgan’s...
The Fed’s annual conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming is an opportunity for the best academics, economists, central bankers and financiers to gather to discuss the big issues affecting the world’s...
View ArticleZKB reagiert auf schwierigeres Geschäft mit Bonuskürzungen
Bei der Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB) regiert der Rotstift. Die Verwaltungskosten sanken im ersten Halbjahr um 4,7 Prozent auf 602 Mio. Franken. „Dieser Rückgang kam insbesondere durch die niedrigeren...
View ArticleGASTBEITRAG: Die neue Wirklichkeit bei Beförderungen im Investment Banking
Chris Roebuck ist Gastprofessor für Transformational Leadership an der Cass Business School. Von 2002 bis 2006 war er Head of Talent & Leadership bei der UBS und zuvor Head of Management...
View ArticleBrevan Howard: Gone Swiss?
Brevan Howard’s London office is not the central hub it once was. What started out as a satellite office in Geneva has slowly morphed into the place to be for its front office staff. Just a handful of...
View ArticleUBS hires more senior coverage bankers
UBS has been shifting the senior ranks for its corporate client solutions teams in Europe, following the appointment of William Vereker at the helm of the division last year. The result has been a...
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