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The best industry for swapping into banking mid-career
If you don’t beat the exemplary candidates to get into banking first time, you might be inclined to give up on your financial services fantasy. After all, there are other jobs out there where you won’t...
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30,000 banking jobs going to the robots?
How cherished are Barclays investment bankers really? It’s all a bit confusing. When Antony Jenkins left Barclays a few weeks ago, we were told it was because nasty Antony was harbouring plans to...
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The ten top financial services-specialist headhunting firms in London
You want a job in banking, but you don’t intend to apply for it. You want to be pursued. You want to be called up by a headhunter/executive search firm which appreciates your special talents. Whose...
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Seven things you should know about Morgan Stanley’s impressive Q2 results
Morgan Stanley is the latest large U.S. investment bank to release its Q2 results. Relatively speaking, its results are very good. Here’s what you need to know. 1. Morgan Stanley’s fixed income...
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How to become a top ranked analyst in an investment bank
Schools and universities are already out for the summer, but junior investment bankers are only just about to get their report cards, and they have very good reason to hope they get top grades. “You’re...
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47 year-old Goldman partner divulges secret to a successful global finance...
If you aspire to become a successful banker with the sort of career that spans both decades and continents and entails becoming partner at Goldman Sachs, James Esposito is possibly your role model....
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How junior investment bankers are telling each other to dress
The new investment banking analysts are arriving. We have it on good authority that new analysts started at Nomura this week, following on from the classes of 2015 joining the likes of Goldman Sachs,...
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Do you have the mental toughness to work in banking?
When it comes to psychological resilience, it seems trite to compare the mental challenges of a finance career with those of a first responder, but experts suggest there are parallels. “There are some...
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Are Barclays’ investment bankers about to report a horrible quarter?
What’s been happening at Barclays’ investment bank? We’re asking because the bank has just replaced its EMEA head of M&A and Chirantan Barua, senior analyst at Bernstein Research, has put about a...
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Why are all these juniors leaving HSBC’s IBD business?
If HSBC’s IBD business were a bucket, it might not have much water around the bottom. It’s come to our attention that plenty of HSBC’s investment banking juniors have been leaving, often for large US...
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Ex-banker with $14m payout shows strange frugality
Maybe Jerry Del Missier has run out of money. Maybe he’s bored. Maybe he’s had long enough to recuperate from his previous role. Either way, the former COO Of Barclays is back. And he’s not displaying...
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Another top M&A banker quits Barclays, despite recent promotion
Barclays’ M&A business is in a period of flux. Yesterday, the bank announced the appointment of a new head of EMEA M&A – Pier Luigi Colizzi, its former head of banking in Italy. Colizzi will...
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Meet J.P. Morgan’s 2015 analyst class
J.P. Morgan’s 2015 graduate hires are now in situ in London. Based on our random sample listed below, it looks a lot like the bank has a type: juniors at J.P. Morgan in Europe need to have excellent...
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MD versus analyst: The top 50 universities for investment banking
There’s a big difference between breaking into investment banking and making it in investment banking. For all the hundreds of analysts taken on to graduate schemes each year, nearly half leave the...
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Behavioural differences between Google and Goldman employees
Are you best suited to working for a Google, or are you best suited to working for a Goldman Sachs? Are you an off-beat eschatologist who wants to earn money in preparation for an environmental...
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More reasons for Credit Suisse’s investment bankers to fear Tidjane Thiam
Tidjane Thiam has presented his first set of quarterly results as CEO of Credit Suisse. If you’re an investment banking employee at the Swiss bank, you have good reason to feel more afraid. Sounding...
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A pictorial guide to intern life at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BAML, UBS...
We already have some idea who this year’s interns are at places like Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, and Morgan Stanley, but what are they actually doing during their 10 hot weeks as trainee bankers?...
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How to quit your investment banking job gracefully
No matter how frustrated you are with your current position, it’s important to be seen as a ‘good-leaver’. Financial services might seem like vast to those on the outside, but it’s a connected – even...
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Top banker’s cunning method of keeping his job
Have you been under-performing in your finance role? Are you concerned that someone might come along and take it from you? Maybe one of juniors? Take a lesson from a pro in how to see them off....
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How attractive must you be to work in banking?
Call it the Abercrombie & Fitch index. The notion that in order to get ahead you need to have the sorts of physical characteristics that might not go amiss at an Abercrombie & Fitch casting...
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