The questions you’ll be asked during a graduate trading interview with...
We can’t tell you the exact questions that you will be asked when you sit down in an interview for a trading position: that will depend not only on the company and the interviewer, but on the the state...
View ArticleFour financial services firms expanding in Asia right now
Headcounts are now being planned for next year and some financial services firms are talking up their hiring in expanding Asian markets, in theory embedding confidence in their brand in the minds of...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: 4 new U.S. firms hiring investment bankers in London. Finance...
Want to make your mark in M&A – or maybe restructuring, at a smallish house, possibly from the U.S., with a frontier-type attitude, preferably in the City? You’re in luck. Financial News says...
View ArticleMorgan Stanley hires BarCap US MD for new investment banking unit
Morgan Stanley has poached a senior managing director from Barclays’ US operations to lead a new investment banking division in London focused on the business services sector. Dana Weinstein joined...
View ArticleCaxton Associate’s profits go from £15m to £111m, but pay stays flat
2013 was a good year for Caxton Associate’s European operation. After posting profits of £14.7m for 2012, the firm eclipsed this the following year with profits of £111.4m – all available for division...
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The people getting big pay rises in banking are those doing the hiring and...
Who would want to work in HR for an investment bank? Aside from the unpleasant experience of having to conduct regular redundancy programmes, deal with increasingly restrictive recruitment budgets or...
View ArticleDistressed debt funds luring staff from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, HSBC,...
Distressed debt funds in London are wooing staff from investment banks. And investment banking professionals in London are only to happy to swoon in their direction. Back in February, we reported that...
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Beautiful ex JPMorgan intern earns $20k-$30k appearing at alumni events
Why work for JPMorgan when you can earn far more money being beautiful at alumni events run by elite European business schools? Xenia Tchoumitcheva, the Swiss-Russian model who once interned at...
View ArticleHow to shape up your university resume with extra-curricular activities
Even though having some relevant coursework under your belt certainly helps you land a job in finance, most employers assume that graduate hires know next to nothing. Your knowledge of finance is only...
View ArticleHow to get a banking job as a graduate from a university in Singapore or Hong...
You want to get a graduate banking job in Singapore or Hong Kong (application deadlines are looming) but you didn’t attend a prestigious university overseas. You’ve performed well on a local degree...
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Morning Coffee: CFA Institute releases information on June exam horrors. Big...
Are CFA exams really as hard as everyone expects them to be? Yes. In fact, they are harder. The CFA Institute has just released results to a survey of people who took its exams in June 2014 and their...
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$115k pay packets and more jobs, but MBAs still don’t want to work in...
Despite all the talk of MBAs pulling away from financial sector in favour of glamorous careers in tech start-ups or strategy roles at Google, banking still offers more jobs to those graduating this...
View ArticleFrench bankers are coming for your jobs
French bankers are on the move. Armed with a superior education, excellent mathematical skills, post graduate qualifications in financial engineering and the kind of passionate urge to work in finance...
View ArticleHow Barclays is really trying to give its junior bankers an easier ride
As we’ve discussed several times recently, Barclays is hard at work trying to make life better for its analysts and associates in M&A. The last thing we heard, the British bank was asking its EMEA...
View ArticleHedge fund paying bonuses for not being a jerk
Back in the good old days, SAC Capital paid its traders large bonuses when they made the firm massive amounts of money. In many cases, that money was earned through less-than-ethical and sometimes...
View ArticleFrom rates sales to mountain man: “Investment bankers are going crazy for...
When, after 12 years working in rates sales for Barclays investment bank, Simon James lost his job in April last year, his first thought – rather obviously – was to look for a new one. After a couple...
View ArticleStudent finance careers events and competitions for the week ahead
Are you a student who wants to work in finance? Now’s the time for you to hone your pitch. – Banks everywhere are accepting applications (we have a Singapore/Hong Kong deadlines timetable here and a...
View ArticleEight ways to impress when you first meet banking recruiters in Asia
We recently told you how not to behave when meeting recruitment agencies in Singapore and Hong Kong (click here for the complete catalogue of candidacy-killing errors). But not all candidates make...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: How Colin Fan is keeping traders at Deutsche Bank. London...
Colin Fan, co-head of investment banking at Deutsche Bank, has hit upon an inspired method of preventing Deutsche Bank’s top fixed income traders from quitting. Anyone who follows Michele Foresti to...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: How idiots mess up Morgan Stanley applications. The forgotten...
If you’re a student and you want to work for Morgan Stanley, you’d better put in an impeccable application. As Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman explained this summer, Morgan Stanley receives 90,000...
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