Red Flags and opportunities: What to look out for while choosing an MBA...
You’re halfway through your MBA and are on the lookout for a financial internship. How do you decide where to look? And, if you’re lucky enough to get multiple offers, which one should you take? It’s...
View ArticleSenior bankers share wisdom on handling heinous travel
If you work in the City of London, you may be dreading your trip home today. If you work in Canary Wharf, you might as well sleep at the office. There’s a tube (subway) strike on and the commuting...
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Credit Suisse investment bankers paid 20% less than at UBS as bank swaps out...
Credit Suisse has announced its fourth quarter and full year results. They don’t look good. The investment bank made a loss of CHF40m in the fourth quarter of 2013 (compared to a profit of CHF298m in...
View ArticleBanks still turning to expat expertise in the Gulf as localisation quotas...
If you’re an expat working in a Gulf state, localisation initiatives should be a concern. Most financial services organisations, along with every other private sector firm, is looking to hit a quota,...
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SAC’s Lacrosse-star chief executive is the last to leave the London office
The imminent closure of SAC Capital Adviser’s London office has been known about since October, and since then a range of competing hedge funds, including Millennium Capital, BlueCrest and, more...
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What you can expect to earn in accounting, IT, operations, risk and...
Replacement hiring is so 2013 – this year financial services firms will be positioning themselves for growth. Adding to the newfound sense of optimism for financial services recruitment in 2014, is the...
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A brief history of Credit Suisse’s investment bank, in bubble charts
Have you got lost following the story of Credit Suisse’s investment bank? It’s ok: the bank itself has signposted its strategic development with a lot of bubble charts showing what it likes and what it...
View ArticleTrader commits parking violation to avoid doing his job
Just how vigilant have regulators become in recent years? Two Wall Street traders were fired and are now facing federal charges for committing a parking violation. At least that’s what a...
View ArticleHow to keep your finance job despite everything
Working in financial services can be hard work. There are the sadistic clients, the relentless travel, the early mornings, the late nights, the falling away of non-financial services friendships and...
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One reason Wall Street is afraid of Bill de Blasio
“Bill de Blasio makes Obama look like Ronnie Reagan,” joked one Wall Street big wig, who half-heartedly threatened to move his firm out of New York. It’s not an uncommon sentiment on Wall Street. I’ve...
View ArticleHow to make it in M&A: Follow your passion and always have an eye on the next...
If you’re a student trying to break into a role in M&A in Europe, you’d have every reason to believe that prospects were a little bleak. Investment bankers are an optimistic bunch by nature, but...
View ArticleDeutsche Bank to “selectively” recruit senior bankers in Asia amid heavy...
If you’re searching for a front-office banking job in Asia – be it in investment banking, corporate banking or wealth management – you are likely to face a good deal of competition in the next couple...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Barclays paranoid best staff will leave. Sheer diligence...
It seems that Barclays will not be paying atrocious bonuses after all. Despite a pressing need to cut costs at the British bank, it was reported yesterday that Barclays will increase its overall bonus...
View ArticleFrantic calls as bankers realize the best future lies in the U.S.
Four years ago, Asia was the promised land for the ambitious banker who wanted a sparkling future. Not any more. “People are calling me every day from Hong Kong and Singapore and saying they want to...
View ArticleSwiss bank pays small fortune
Credit Suisse may be trimming pay, but the same cannot be said for Vontobel, the small Swiss bank with investment banking, asset management and wealth management arms. Our German editor has been...
View ArticleNo need to stress: new risk management jobs are coming
Global banks appear ill-prepared to handle the sheer amount of effort required to complete impending stress tests and will likely need to add risk professionals and other staffers to complete the work,...
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Morgan Stanley produces helpful chart predicting best European banks to work...
If you’re looking for a job in fixed income sales and trading, equities or IBD and are wondering which European bank to work for in the next 12 months, we would like to draw your attention to the...
View ArticleStephen Hester and the lure of the multi-million insurance jobs
Stephen Hester has gone to the grey side. After five years leading Royal Bank of Scotland and its shriveling investment bank and four months tending his gardens, Hester has gone on to become chief...
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The ultimate investment banking resume cheat sheet
We’ve all been there before. You’re re-writing or adding to your resume and look down and realize that you’ve used the same action verb in five consecutive sentences. You then right-click the word...
View ArticleCareer Crunch: Big post-bonus job moves expected, why you can never really...
If you’ve missed out on the latest careers news and advice on eFC over the past week, take a moment to catch up on the top stories of the last seven days. Front office hiring surging as banks interview...
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