How to land an internship at J.P. Morgan and turn it into a full-time offer
If you want to land an internship at a bulge bracket bank, you’ll need a fairly exceptional background. But know that credentials and school pedigree aren’t enough. You’ll also need to harness all the...
View ArticleEight giant hiring trends you need to know about in the Year of the Goat
Chinese New Year is over. And that means we’re now in the season where more finance professionals in Singapore and Hong Kong will actually be resigning rather than just thinking about it. But as we...
View ArticleFollowing your boss to his nice new hedge fund? Think twice
Your manager and mentor is quitting to start his own hedge fund and has picked you – you! – to move with them. Do you quit the bosom and (relative) security of a large investment bank for a...
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Average pay in RBS’s investment bank? £197k. Here’s who’s safe
For all the bombast about punishing investment bankers, cutting the bonus pool and doing away with a standalone investment bank, people in RBS’s corporate and investment banking business didn’t get...
View ArticleDid J.P. Morgan just ask some staff to amend profiles on LinkedIn?
Rumour has it that J.P. Morgan’s most desirable and hard-to-retain staff may soon become harder to find on LinkedIn. Recruiters claim that some technology professionals at J.P. Morgan in the UK have...
View ArticleWhy financial advisers are pushing back on Obama’s latest proposal
President Obama made headlines this week by publicly endorsing rules that will more tightly govern the behavior of financial advisors. The rules aren’t new – the proposed regulation is actually a...
View Article6 things you didn’t know about Jeff Urwin, the new co-head of investment...
Deutsche Bank has just appointed a new co-head of investment banking. That man is Jeff Urwin, the former global co-head of investment banking at J.P. Morgan. Urwin will be based in New York, while...
View ArticleTwo emerging skills that banks in Singapore are searching for right now
Mandarin isn’t the only second language that’s increasingly sought after at banks in Singapore – Indonesian and Japanese speakers are now on their radar. There’s been a surge in demand for Indonesian...
View ArticleWhat happens to Renshaw Bay now that Bill Winters is joining Standard Chartered?
Bill Winters has been returned to mainstream banking, having been unveiled as the new CEO of Standard Chartered. But since leaving J.P. Morgan, where he was co-chief executive, Winters has been...
View ArticleWould you take a step back in your career to join J.P. Morgan?
Would you go from global head of a business at a European bank to a position where you’re not even head of a desk at J.P. Morgan? This is what Carl Teece, former global head of precious metals trading...
View ArticleSomething’s up in Citi’s European equities team
Citi’s European equity team appears to be undergoing some changes. In the past few months, several senior people have left. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Register indicates that Citi has parted...
View ArticleRBS set to take the axe to its U.S operations
As we’ve noted previously, the phrase “great quarter guys” is perhaps the most common idiom uttered during earnings calls. Equity analysts preface nearly every question with it, even if the quarter...
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Here’s how analysts can stop themselves being exploited by associates
As an analyst in an investment bank, you may find yourself urged into overwork by your associate. A new experiment by French researchers at the ‘Group of Analysis and Economic Theory’ in Lyon, offers...
View ArticleThe latest hot banking job in China and Hong Kong is hit by skill shortages
As job cuts continue to savage equity sales and trading jobs in Asia – Standard Chartered, Nomura and CIMB have all laid off staff this year – the hiring of equity research analysts who cover A-shares...
View ArticleMichael Hintze’s hedge fund has been making some senior hires
CQS, one of the largest UK hedge funds set up by Sir Michael Hintze in 1999, has started 2015 by adding two senior hires to its ranks including the former head of equity exotics trading at Barclays...
View ArticleThis Citi leveraged finance analyst has exceptional experience as a waiter
It’s a mantra among graduate recruiters to say that any kind of work experience can be relevant to banking, if only you spin it right. Did you spend your summers at university working in a gift shop?...
View ArticleTop banking analyst cautions against careers in equity research
So you want to be an equity researcher? Think again. Along with being an MD in M&A and a salesperson in FX, equity research is over-rated as a career, So says Brad Hintz, who should know. “Equity...
View ArticleThe one skill you need to land a private equity job
It’s a pretty good time to be working in private equity. Pay is fantastic, the work is interesting and, unlike investment banking, the long arm of government regulators has yet to squeeze the...
View ArticleBankers in Asia “stuck” mid-career as firms fail to build leaders
Talent shortages are a hot topic in Asian banking and the discussion mainly revolves around specific jobs in specific sectors. Relationship managers in private banking provide the prime example – even...
View ArticleJ.P. Morgan’s attempted LinkedIn ban is more comprehensive than we thought
Last week we reported upon a rumour alleging that J.P. Morgan had asked some of its staff to tone down their profiles on LinkedIn. At the time we thought this might be spurious given that J.P. Morgan’s...
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