Why would BNP Paribas be laying off U.S. investment bankers right now?
BNP Paribas is laying off investment bankers at its seventh avenue office in New York. So says Dealbreaker, which claims the French bank booked out the entire 9th floor to inform unfortunate employees...
View ArticleWant a bigger bonus? You’d better be a team player, especially in Asia
“Teamworking”: you write it on your resume to please recruiters and then cite dubious examples of it during job interviews, but you never really think about it when you’re actually in the office –...
View ArticleStop aux idées reçues : ce que j’ai vraiment appris de mon expérience en...
Pourquoi faire carrière dans la banque d’investissement ? Il y a quelques années, les motivations “qualitatives” importaient peu, l’appât de l’argent suffisait. Maintenant que les rémunérations ne sont...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: The GOOD news for RBS’s London investment bankers. Cruelest...
RBS has already distilled its investment bank down more than any of its rivals. Between 2008 and 2013, around 40,000 jobs were cut across the operation. However, it seems that was not enough: under a...
View ArticleCareer Insights: In trading, raw talent is nothing without tenacity, says...
Howard Man is head of cash equities trading, Asia ex-Japan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch Howard has an SB and MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US. He started his career at...
View ArticleDer „Biertest“ oder wie der Umstieg vom Investmentbanking ins Private Equity...
Auf jeden freien Job in Private Equity (PE) kommen angeblich 200 bis 300 engagierte, junge Investmentbanker. Denn im Investmentbanking fühlen sich viele junge Banker lediglich als winziges Rad in einem...
View ArticleU.S. hedge funds harassing hot young bankers, making multiple job offers
Who are the most sought-after people in all of financial services now? Try London-based analysts and associates with debt restructuring and leveraged finance experience. Headhunters are all over them....
View ArticleAn Honest Defense of Investment Banking
There are two competing narratives for junior bankers on Wall Street. From an outsider’s perspective, there’s the overpaid, immoral and hedonistic stigma that grew in prominence following the financial...
View ArticleSix essential rules to follow when demonstrating a sense of humour in finance
Never let it be said that you have to be dull to be an investment banker. Despite endless hours spent in front of spreadsheets and, until recently, a lack of opportunities to kick back at the weekend,...
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Homes you could rent in NYC, London and Singapore if your bonus were enormous
Global financial services centers don’t necessarily offer a great quality of life. Mercer’s Quality of Living Report for 2014 didn’t rank any in the top five cities globally, and put London and New...
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Why do so many super-groomed men work for UBS?
Far be it for us to say that particular banks have a particular look going on, but as it’s Friday and it’s worth noting that several of the senior men of UBS seem to have a certain similarity about...
View ArticleEinfacher geht’s nicht: Wie Sie Ihrem Lebenslauf den letzten Schliff verpassen
An dem Inhalt Ihres Lebenslaufs lässt sich auf die Schnelle kaum etwas ändern – ganz anders sieht das bei der Form aus. Hier können Sie mit nur wenigen Griffen dafür sorgen, dass Sie aus der Masse der...
View ArticleCareer Crunch: Avoid corporate flannel speak, five top interview techniques
Here’s a bite-sized refresher of the top ten articles on eFinancialCareers’ global network over the past seven days. The 15 most hated office clichés in all of financial services Touching base for a...
View ArticleEscape offshoring: Five finance-tech jobs set to stay in Singapore and Hong Kong
If you’re looking for a banking-tech job in Singapore or Hong Kong, first make sure its long-term future is secure and is not under threat from offshoring. Singapore, in particular, was until about two...
View ArticleKleine Bank mit großen Gehältern: Bei Bellevue liegt die Bruttovergütung bei...
Auch winzige Banken können durchaus attraktive Arbeitgeber sein. Dies scheint jedenfalls auf die Schweizer Bellevue Group mit gerade einmal 80 Mitarbeitern zuzutreffen. Das Institut erzielte in 2013...
View ArticleJunior bankers: Stressed, overworked, but loving it
Junior investment bankers may be overworked, but they’re also battle-hardened by internships, incredibly competitive and have one eye on the next career move. Despite recent depictions of young...
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HSBC’s, super-profitable, strangely-generous investment bank pays chief risk...
It seems that HSBC is in possession of one of the most profitable large investment banks in the world. It also seems that HSBC pays its risk personnel very generously. With its fourth quarter results,...
View ArticleJob Market Pulse: Credit firms thirsty for junior bankers, asset managers...
In this week’s roundup of hiring news, SocGen keeps its foot on the foreign pedal, London firms heat up growth plans and a once-shrinking private equity firm starts growing. SocGen adding equities...
View ArticleHow to get in with Anshu Jain
If you want to inveigle your way into Jamie Dimon’s inner circle, you might want to play tennis. Dimon’s most recent Christmas card showed him wielding a tennis racket and he’s said to have met his...
View ArticleVingt stratégies éprouvées pour sortir de la banque d’investissement
C’est décidé, vous voulez quitter définitivement la banque d’investissement. Mais pour faire quoi à la place ? Voici quelques pistes… 1. Private equity Qui ? La crème de la crème : les banquiers qui se...
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