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The toughest investment banking interview questions and how to answer them
Within the next few weeks, investment banks will start inviting their favourite applicants in for interviews. Full time analysts are typically interviewed first, with summer analysts usually...
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The accounting jobs in financial services with the biggest pay raises in the...
The focus on headcount cuts and shrinking pay in the financial sector has largely centred on investment banks and hedge funds, but what about accounting roles? Accountants and internal auditors are,...
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Exhausted? Here’s how I survived 17 years in banking
Investment banking, sales and trading, research: they are all hard jobs. You will likely be stabbed in the back by your colleagues, your clients will slam the phone down on you and pull an order, and...
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As an equities banker becomes CEO, people have left Barclays’ equities business
Revenues in Barclays’ equities business fell 31% year-on-year in the second quarter. Three months on, people are quietly leaving the business. Recent exits from Barclays’ London business include...
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UBS or Credit Suisse, which is best? 9 charts
If you have to work for a Swiss bank, which should it be? In the event that you’re weighing up one top Swiss organization against another, you may want to reference the charts below from Bernstein...
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Investment banks’ 2016 analyst class: what it really took to get in
Top investment banks receive upwards of 200,0000 applications globally for their graduate programmes and hire only a tiny proportion of these every year – often those who have spent the previous summer...
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The shoes of the successful investment banker
On no account must you wear brown shoes in the City of London. Brown may be anecdotally acceptable in Continental European financial centres, but it is never, ever ok on London Wall. Most people knew...
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Goldman Sachs managing director departs for trading role at Wells Fargo
A senior fixed income trader at Goldman Sachs in New York has left the bank and has re-emerged at Wells Fargo. Ying Xu, a managing director at Goldman Sachs who has worked at the bank since 1998, is...
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Banks’ 2016 London analyst classes make a mockery of Brexit migration limits
According to a new poll of the British populace, 52% of British voters think curbing migration is more important than maintaining access to the EU single market as the country negotiates Brexit. That’s...
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Nine ways to make it to MD at a Singapore bank
Finance professionals in Singapore are increasingly trying to join the city state’s local banks, DBS, OCBC and UOB. The three firms have been expanding their headcount over the past year and have...
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Where to work now in FICC, equities and IBD if you want to survive in...
2016 is turning out to be the sort of year where investment banking employees globally should hide under a rock until the whole thing blows over. In case you were in any doubt just how tough it’s been...
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Morning Coffee: So, this is why Barclays hired Tim Throsby. The weird 20...
Barclays’ investment bank has got a new chief executive. As we noted yesterday, Tim Throsby has joined from J.P. Morgan to take the malingering business in hand. Needless to say, Barclays’ group CEO...
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Banks’ demand for the wrong kind of quants is exploding
You’d be hard pressed to find a growth area in the front office of an investment bank right now. Figures from market intelligence firm Coalition suggest there were only two front office areas where...
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Former Nomura MD has just launched his own private equity firm
Another Nomura managing director who left earlier this year has decided to go it alone rather than join another large investment bank. Michael Guarnieri, who was a managing director and global head of...
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CFA, MBA, ACA, ACCA or CIMA – which will get you a job that pays?
Which popular finance qualification is most likely to get you a job in financial services now? And more pointedly – which one will get you a job that pays well? The answer appears to be: none of them,...
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“Why I left J.P. Morgan Asset Management for a tech startup”
I’ve been told many times that your 20s are the scariest time of your life. Nearly five years in, I can understand why this opinion is so ubiquitous. For the first time, expectations are not set by...
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Why you want to work for a quant hedge fund in the U.S. now
The computers are taking over hedge funds. While most hedge funds have struggled with redemptions this year and others face existential questions about their business models, quant hedge funds have...
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Morning Coffee: UBS’s dire warning on London banking jobs. Firing bankers...
Right then, Sergio Ermotti has been making some serious statements about the impact of Brexit on UBS’s London headcount – 30% of people could go, or around 1,500 people. “We currently employ more than...
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You’re doing it wrong: banks hire like this now
If you’re spending this autumn looking for a new banking job, and you haven’t done this for a while, you’re in for a shock. Quietly, but dramatically, banks have been changing the mechanisms by which...
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This is where the talent shortages are on Wall Street
Financial services firms have been cutting headcount, they’ve been freezing recruitment and focusing on internal moves. But this doesn’t mean that there aren’t bright spots and within these hot sectors...
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