Seven rules of engaging in bold job search techniques
In a bid to stand out from the deluge of identikit applicants for finance roles these days, it may be worth putting your head above the parapet and trying something bold. Pitched right and trying...
View ArticleEx-SocGen M&A banker warns that Romanians and Bulgarians are coming to take...
The Romanians are coming in their droves. They will be renting flats in the Docklands, buying tailored suits and going skiing in Verbier. They are here to take the jobs of the British bankers who want...
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Canary Wharf workers traumatized as man falls from JPMorgan’s roof
Very sadly, a 39 year-old JPMorgan banker fell from the roof of the bank’s office in Canary Wharf this morning. The unidentified man is said to have fallen slightly before 8am and to have landed on a...
View ArticleUBS chief tells banking critics that enough is enough
Every year since the crisis, one of Wall Street’s top executives tells the world to quit it with all the banker-bashing. And every year, like clockwork, they get publicly roasted for their comments....
View Article100 names you need to know if you want a job at Barclays, Deutsche Bank,...
If you want a new job in banking, you have a few options – you can apply through recruiters, apply directly, upload your CV to our own CV database, or network like crazy. If you’re truly persistent...
View ArticleFrustration over lack of a work/life policy boiling over at Deutsche Bank
Most every big bank – including Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Bank of America and Credit Suisse – has implemented new rules aimed at easing the workload of its junior staffers. As of today, Deutsche Bank...
View ArticleMan who jumped at JPMorgan this morning revealed as senior rates technologist...
The JPMorgan employee who fell from the roof of bank’s Canary Wharf headquarters this morning has been revealed as 39 year technologist Gabriel Magee. Magee’s LinkedIn profile suggests he’d worked for...
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Three clues as to the 400 investment bankers who will be laid off at Barclays...
As expected, Barclays’ investment bank is making some more redundancies. The Financial Times reports that the British bank plans to lay off 400 investment bankers in addition to the 1,700 redundancies...
View ArticleThe good news and the bad news about the rise of internet banks in China
Evolve or perish, is the stark warning that has been issued to China’s mainstream banks, many of whom are losing customers in droves to a new generation of internet upstarts that are hoovering deposits...
View ArticleDaily Dispatches – Singapore banks crack down on employees’ use of chat rooms
DBS Group and United Overseas Bank have both restricted employee access to chat rooms and have tightened guidelines on electronic communications, reports Bloomberg. The move follows censure from...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: JPMorgan said to be investigating workload of man who fell...
JPMorgan staff were informed yesterday that the tragic colleague who fell from the roof of the bank’s building in Canary Wharf in the morning was 39 year-old Gabriel Magee, a US-born vice president in...
View ArticleJPMorgan embarking on hiring spree after tech shake-up
Technologists in the banking sector need to start thinking about broadening their skills-base. The days of working in siloed teams, in one single function with a narrow field of expertise are slowly...
View ArticleTen freakish items in Deutsche Bank’s newly released fourth quarter results
You may recall that Deutsche Bank issued a preliminary statement on its results a few weeks ago. It wasn’t pretty. Deutsche made a loss of €965m in the final quarter, when analysts had expected a...
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Oxbridge, economics and a private education: What you really need to get in...
Investment banking has a reputation for being elitist, but it’s the private equity and asset management sectors that tend to employ private-educated Oxbridge graduates in the UK, and progress them up...
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 passed the exams – 43% passed Level I to be specific, which was at least higher than the 38% who passed in June. The CFA Institute,...
View ArticleWhat a banker can learn from a fire chief, by a fire chief
Long hours, being available 24/7, dealing with hours of the mundane interrupted by moments of pure heroism… it’s almost the job description for a firefighter and arguably very apt for banking. When I...
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The ridiculously formal way MBAs learn the casual art of conversation
Conversation is supposed to be more art than science, but it seems the future kings of industry aren’t taking any chances. The below worksheet is handed out to MBA students by one of the top business...
View ArticleSemi-impoverished Deutsche bankers say Barclays’ layoffs aren’t so bad
Deutsche Bank and Barclays have some similarities. Both are big fixed income currencies and commodity (FICC) houses. Both have witnessed a senior FICC banker rise up and take over the entire...
View ArticleWhere to next for Singapore’s hard commodity traders?
Regional banks, Asian commodity firms and derivatives operations are mopping up newly unemployed physical commodities traders who have been left without jobs after the big international banks starting...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Saturdays off at Citi, which plans to hire 2,500 people
Overworked junior members of Citi’s IBD business who are preparing to work all today, all tomorrow, and all Saturday have been given some very good news: this is the last week they’ll need to do that....
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