Ten shrewd questions that will tell you whether you’re in the wrong career
Are you doing the right thing with your life? Do you dream of escaping banking and living in a sustainable city with a loft apartment and a single gear bike? Or are you fine where you are? A new box...
View ArticleCareer Crunch: Implications of the Barclays bloodbath, how to succeed in...
Barclays made the most sweeping changes to its investment bank that will see thousands of jobs culled over the next two years. This has dominated the headlines, but there were other (more positive)...
View ArticleFelix Baumgartner offers this advice to finance professionals on taking risks
If you haven’t heard of Felix Baumgartner you may suffer from vertigo or maybe you’ve never wasted time on the obscure video-streaming site known as YouTube. Best known for jumping to earth from the...
View ArticleDeutsche Bank, Nomura hiring in fixed income; RBC growing away from home
In the latest hiring roundup, RBC is growing in Europe, two big banks are making surprising hires in fixed income and Moelis is eyeing new recruits. Late is better than never If you’re still looking...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Are massive job cuts really coming at JPM? Worst thing ever...
Some kind of haemorrhagic meltdown is due to strike JPMorgan. So says Nancy Bush, a consultant and strategic adviser at NAB Research, backed up Dick Bove, a bank analyst at Rafferty Capital Markets....
View ArticleWhere you can achieve double-digit pay rises in the Middle East financial sector
Financial services recruiters in the Middle East are not only competing for candidates with local rivals, but – because of the tendency to look internationally for candidates – they’re also trying...
View ArticleThe 10 most desirable and lucrative jobs on offer at GS, JPM, BAML, MS and...
Banks are hiring. Forget the blood on the floor at Barclays. Forget the media frenzy battering JPMorgan. Who cares that fixed income revenues seem to be in terminal decline? Recruitment firm Morgan...
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Profits at Goldman Sachs International fell 75% last year. It still paid...
Bankers at Goldman Sachs International in London are rumoured to be rough and ready and highly competitive. So said Greg Smith in his “tell all” book on working at Goldman, published in 2012....
View ArticleLife after Dimon at JPMorgan?
Coming off a highly litigious year and a historically frustrating fiscal quarter, JPMorgan is reeling. The bank is now said to be facing more layoffs than had originally been planned along with the...
View ArticleCity superwoman on the influence of a stay-at-home husband
Helena Morrissey admits that her life “shouldn’t really work”. The CEO of Newton Investment Management, mother of nine children and champion of women in the boardroom through the 30% Club, has long...
View ArticleWho will replace Brady Dougan at Credit Suisse? Top tips from the Swiss press
The noose around Brady Dougan’s neck is tightening. The U.S. Justice Department is demanding a formal confession that Credit Suisse actively helped its American wealth management customers to avoid...
View ArticleBanks losing the popularity contest in Canadian recruitment
Canadian banks appear to be facing an uphill battle when it comes to local recruitment, despite being more insulated from the all the negative headlines being made by European and U.S. rivals. The...
View ArticleWant a job at RP Martin, the brokerage firm at the centre of the new Libor...
It’s not turning out to be the best year for RP Martin, the inter-dealer broking firm. First of all, one of its employees was shot in the leg by a masked gunman (allegedly an ex-colleague from a...
View ArticleThe overlooked Asian banks currently staffing up (and paying well) in...
If you’re looking for a banking job in Hong Kong or Singapore, Chinese banks aren’t your only alternative to Western and home-grown institutions, especially if you’re after a big pay rise. Recruiters...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: BAML bankers weep over deferred bonuses. Banks rebrand as...
If you see a fellow finance professional from Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML), treat him or her gently. Take especial care if that BAML banker happens to be quite senior and has a lot of his...
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Hall of shame: the worst places for women to break into the senior ranks in...
If you’re a woman thinking of entering the financial sector, you may have thought that all the mentorships, diversity schemes and women’s groups in investment banking now provide the infrastructure to...
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How bonuses of $250k, $500k and $1m are structured at Citigroup
If you’re looking for a U.S. investment bank that pays handsomely, in heavy quantities of cash, Citigroup may be the place to be. Headhunters report that the U.S. bank is one of the most generous cash...
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Five past vulgarities at Deutsche Bank that might get you fired in future
Deutsche Bank’s salespeople and traders are turning a new page, wiping the slate clean, sanitizing their emails, washing out their mouths and starting a whole new future in which boastfulness and...
View ArticleBanks banding together to fight excessive broker pay
If you’re a financial adviser with a proven book of business, you’ve been in the catbird seat for the last few years. Banks and brokerage houses have been fighting over talent aggressively, offering...
View ArticleDon’t mention meditation: Inside the health craze sweeping the financial sector
It’s an awkward moment; after explaining that mindfulness techniques in the workplace have moved a long way from their Buddhist meditation roots, the instructor of our small introductory class rings a...
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