How the 2015 bonus round is panning out at Goldman Sachs, MS, JPM, BAML and Citi
Bonus day in investment banks used to be a simple affair. Bonuses were announced on a divisional basis, and for better or for worse the whole thing was over in around 24 hours. Now it’s become more...
View ArticleA step-by-step guide to acing informational interviews for investment banking
Most analyst and associate classes at investment banks get filled through internship programs and campus visits. The problem for many hopeful bankers is that the Goldman Sachs’s and J.P. Morgan’s of...
View ArticleThe skill that’s fast becoming your ticket to career success in Asian banking
Compliance and risk and are both, of course, hot jobs within Asian banking. But career success within these functions no longer just depends on your regulatory knowledge or risk-management expertise....
View ArticleRBC Capital Markets still offering a life line to fixed income traders and...
If you were an investment banker looking to move into an expanding company last year, RBC Capital Markets was the place to go in London. While headcount was flat at most investment banks in the City,...
View ArticleHow junior traders mess up and misconstrue what’s required of them
If you make it through to a trading internship in an investment bank, you’re good. You may be exceptionally good. But don’t let your brilliance blind you to your faults. David Hesketh spent nearly four...
View ArticleThe gender pay gap on Wall Street is more real than we all thought
Every few months, a different publication comes out with a study examining the pay gap on Wall Street. The end result is always the same – a confirmation that one still exists. But the latest report is...
View ArticleDeutsche Bank adding controls, healthcare staffers; UBS rebuilding in Europe
In the latest hiring roundup, Deutsche Bank is adding in controls and healthcare M&A, struggling Standard Chartered is growing a debt team and Espirito Santo is adding headcount across equity...
View ArticleThe 7 most interesting people hired by Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Morgan...
One month into 2015, and US investment banks have been hiring. Based upon their registrations with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), they’ve been hiring quite a lot – especially J.P. Morgan, which...
View ArticleEight crucial questions that finance professionals in Asia must always ask...
Bonuses are being paid, Chinese New Year is on the horizon – in Hong Kong and Singapore the traditional busy season for recruiters to meet job seekers has begun. Banks in Asia, meanwhile, are putting...
View ArticleThe body language that’s making you unemployable
Why have you been to multiple job interviews and had no job offers? Why do your interviewers look at you as if you're Nigel Farage? Share on twitter Why do they stare out the window while you explain...
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Should you move to London or New York for these hot jobs?
In theory, information security and big data roles are part of a bank’s technology function. However, with financial services firms under attack from cyber criminals and keen to mine the data at their...
View ArticleSo, Santander has been quietly hiring in London
We remarked upon Santander’s secret sucking up of fixed income traders in London back in September 2014. Guess what? Much like RBC, it seems the Spanish bank is hiring still. Santander just announced...
View ArticleHSBC has just poached Barclays’ chief information officer
Darryl West, chief information officer at Barclays, has left the bank to become group CIO at HSBC, according to sources close to the situation. In a world where banks are increasingly competing against...
View ArticleFive ways you can screw up a management consulting interview
The hardest part of any management consulting interview is the case study portion, where you will break down a hypothetical business problem and offer a recommendation. It’s essentially doing the...
View ArticleJob applications to Singaporean banks surge 30%. Here’s why
Banking professionals in Singapore are sending their CVs in increasing numbers to the city state’s three home-grown banks, DBS, OCBC and UOB. Recruiters say they are now receiving about 20% to 30% more...
View Article10 phrases you need to know if you want a job in electronic trading
Trading jobs are not as exciting as they were. Human beings are being displaced by algorithms. And algorithms are becoming more effective while human intelligence is diverted by videos of cats chasing...
View ArticleIf you have no experience whatsoever, Stevie Cohen wants you
Typically speaking, hedge funds don’t do all that much hiring right out of school, preferring to let investment banks do most of the training before plucking the cream of the crop. Well, Steven A....
View ArticleIs this the perfect junior banking job for moving a hedge fund?
If you’re looking to get hired by a bank and then move to a hedge fund, leveraged finance looks like the place to be. Banks are engaged in some big leveraged finance hiring and hedge funds are poaching...
View ArticleThe worst paid jobs on Wall Street and in the City of London
Not everyone who works in finance can take home six-figures after a few years in the industry. Not everyone is a ‘banker’ and there are plenty of jobs on offer in both the City of London and Wall...
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Consultants lure MBA interns with better pay than investment banks
Choosing an internship should never be about the money, particularly for MBAs who likely have a fairly clear plan in place for their career. That said, who isn’t curious about what other people are...
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