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Where will you get paid the most in risk?
Risk management has recently transformed itself from a support function to one which is at the forefront of banks’ strategic proprieties. Professionals working in risk now enjoy more decision making...
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Deutsche Bank interview questions, the definitive list
You’re interviewing with Deutsche Bank. What should you expect? As with most banks, you should prepare for multiple rounds of interviews, detailed questions on your CV, detailed questions about the...
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Here’s who’ll hire you when you lose your fixed income job. Why Deutsche’s...
Fixed income traders at large European investment banks have reason to feel a little twitchy: the first half of 2015 wasn’t very kind, especially in credit. But while large investment banks scrutinize...
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Which sort of investment bank would you to work for? Choose from these 4 types
There are investment banks and there are investment banks. Just because you work in the industry, that doesn’t mean you’ve entered a realm of bland conformity and strategic universality. All banks are...
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So, Nomura just made all these senior markets hires…
Something is seemingly going on at Nomura. Having made 60 redundancies in August, mostly in credit sales and trading and especially in high yield, it looks the Japanese bank is bulking up other parts...
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9/11, reflections of a survivor
It’s been long years since the planes came in and changed the landscape of lower Manhattan forever; long years since two commercial passenger airliners were turned into weapons of mass destruction by a...
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11 stunningly successful ways to negotiate better pay in banking
You work in a part of the Asian finance sector where talent is supposedly in short supply (compliance or private banking perhaps) and you’ve heard that big salary rises are on offer for those willing...
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How one 30 year-old banker’s life fell apart
The sorry, sad story of Tom Hayes, the former Citi and UBS trader who went from earning $7.4m in four years to being sentenced to 14 years in prison, has been well-documented. Just when it seemed there...
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Why bankers are (still) paid so much
If you work in banking, you will earn a lot of money. For all the talk of ‘rebasing banking pay’ by hiring juniors with no recollection of the good old paydays, banking is still abnormally...
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Is Deutsche Bank about to make 27% of its technology staff redundant?
If Reuters is right, Deutsche Bank is on the cusp of some huge job cuts. The news service reports that the German bank is preparing to make 23,000 staff redundant and that technology staff and Postbank...
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Morning Coffee: Barclays hiring 22 year-olds irrespective of qualifications....
Are you a talented trader? Do you have mediocre academic qualifications from a non-elite university? – Maybe you’ve been pursuing a degree in new media, or old media, or applied marketing? Fear not: if...
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Barclays hiring 22 year-olds irrespective of qualifications
Are you a talented trader? Do you have mediocre academic qualifications from a non-elite university? – Maybe you’ve been pursuing a degree in new media, or old media, or applied marketing? Fear not: if...
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The seven questions that will convert your banking interview into a job offer
Are you going for a banking interview? Do you intend to achieve a job offer as a result? If so, you’ll need to ask some questions of your own when the interview comes to an end. Interviewers frown upon...
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Citi cleaning up on London markets hires
If you’re looking for a job in sales and trading, Citi is hiring. As reported earlier this month, Citi is looking to build its equities business under Murray Roos, the man it hired from Deutsche Bank...
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Do traders need to know how to code?
You want to work as a trader. Does this mean you need to learn how to code? If you want to build an enduring career, the answer is almost certainly yes. “If you’re simply a market maker or a...
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Can you solve this fiendishly difficult hedge fund interview question?
Hedge fund interview questions are tricky. They involve maths, logic and reasoning. Here is an example that was given by a former Wall Street hedge fund trader. See if you can solve it. It’s called...
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From $138k to $286k in two years, followed by panic attacks
Ostensibly, Dalal Belghiti was doing pretty ok. In 2010, as a 31 year-old associate in Jefferies’ international sales credit team, she earned a salary of £138k. Two years later, her salary had been...
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Is fintech over-hyped?
Fintech is reaching fever pitch. Over the past two years, the sector has evolved from an outlet for frustrated investment bankers and traders to embark on something entrepreneurial, to a multi-billion...
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How to get a job at Robey Warshaw
London’s hottest finance boutique is, officially, Robey Warshaw. Despite employing now fewer than nine registered people according to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), despite being founded only...
View ArticleThe remarkable rise of the ‘introductory’ job interview. And how to prepare...
A senior manager at a rival bank would like to ‘interview’ you, but it’s not part of a formal hiring process, no HR people are coming along, and they want to meet over a coffee, not at their office. In...
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