Morgan Stanley’s guide to the best jobs in banking in 2014 and beyond
Which jobs in banking will serve you well in 2014 and offer continuous employment for the next few years (at least)? Which jobs in banking are a direct route to redundancy and the strain of...
View ArticleWere Obama’s comments on Wall Street pay out of touch?
It’s been a while since President Obama took a public shot at Wall Street. Maybe he was just saving up for a good one. The president, while lauding the positive effects of Dodd-Frank, went out of his...
View ArticleStatistiquement, voici les qualifications les plus utiles pour votre...
Comment faut-il s’y prendre aujourd’hui pour améliorer son employabilité dans l’industrie des services financiers notamment à l’étranger ? Vaut-il mieux se lancer dans un Master en finance (formations...
View ArticleInvestment banks cut graduate recruitment, receiving fewer applications
Investment banks are receiving fewer applications for graduate jobs and have cut the number of roles they’re recruiting for, despite promises of reducing working hours for junior employees. Since the...
View ArticleSo, is a move to Millennium Capital Partners simply too risky?
If you want a job in a hedge fund, Millennium Capital Partners has been the fund to go for. The London-based iteration of Millennium Management, the New York-based fund with $23bn under management, has...
View ArticleScandal fueling job growth at BNP; a back office unit creating front office jobs
In the latest hiring roundup, Barclays eyes an expanding market, boutiques are poaching sell-side equity analysts and Deutsche Bank opens the front office door in Birmingham. Blackstone’s hiring valve...
View Article7 men (and women) who’ve just started big new jobs in finance (and...
If you work in banking, hiring tends to beget hiring. One new senior recruit will often beget another as that individual hires in his/her former colleagues and ‘upgrades’ the existing team. This being...
View ArticleThe hot Aussie buy-side firms now offering ‘safe’ careers to jaded bankers
Once a decidedly insular sector, superannuation (mandatory retirement savings) in Australia is increasingly attracting local and global candidates from across financial services to fuel its inexorable...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: JPM-backed hedge fund hiring in London. Goldman Sachs chief...
Now that banks can’t do any proprietary trading of their own (except block trades related to IPOs), they’re funding hedge funds to do it for them instead. Yesterday we reported that Arrowgrass Capital...
View ArticleWas Banker an ihren Kollegen hassen
Jeder kennt es: Im Team gibt es ein oder zwei Kollegen, die einen zur Verzweiflung treiben. Doch Banker müssen sich gleich mit Dutzenden davon abplagen. Wir haben Investmentbanker gefragt, an welchen...
View ArticleMeet the newest financial services firm to set up in Dubai
In the competitive world of private banking in the Middle East, George Azar is something of a veteran, having been working in the region for over 16 years. Like any good salesman, he’s an opportunist...
View ArticleWegen Umgehung von US-Embargos: Auch Commerzbank soll 500 Mio. Dollar zahlen
Der Feldzug der US-Justiz durch die europäische Bankenlandschaft scheint ihr nächstes Opfer gefunden zu haben. Nach Informationen der New York Times steht eine außergerichtliche Einigung der...
View ArticleHow to leave banking in your 30s, and still make good money
The way one M&A headhunter describes them, careers in investment banking in 2014 are tantamount to working in a Welsh coal mine in 1984. “People are desperate, of course they want to get out,” he...
View ArticleRothschild hires RBS’s ex-global head of equity syndicate after two years out
Stephen Taylor, the former global head of equity syndicate at Royal Bank of Scotland who left in the wake of the bank’s strategic review in 2012, has re-emerged at Rothschild after over two years out...
View ArticleThe three Wall Street jobs offering the biggest pay raises in the back,...
The hiring landscape on Wall Street is much more optimistic than it was just a year ago. Yes, trading jobs and salaries are being cut seemingly every day, but banks in New York are still doing...
View ArticleHorizon 2022 : les jeux ne sont pas faits pour les professionnels français de...
Quel est le bilan de l’emploi dans l’industrie financière française depuis la crise et à quelle sauce seront mangés les financiers d’ici à 2022 ? Deux récentes études permettent de répondre à ces deux...
View ArticleSeven key trends shaping finance careers in China right now
As China liberalises its finance sector and faces up to severe talent shortages, we’ve asked recruiters in the PRC to identify the key trends that are shaping finance careers there right now. From way...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Careers in finance that will still be hot in 2030. Citigroup...
Where must you build a career in finance if you want to ensure your enduring employability? Clearly not in rates and FX trading, where revenues are down 70% in five years. Possibly not in M&A,...
View ArticleHow to convert your internship at Deutsche Bank into a full-time job
Internship conversion rates at investment banks vary between 60-100%. At Deutsche Bank, assuming you make it into the investment banking division, you have a good chance of securing a full-time job –...
View ArticleRote Flaggen ade: Wie der Betriebsrat den Kulturwandel der Deutschen Bank stoppt
Als sich die beiden Chefs der Deutschen Bank Anshu Jain und Jürgen Fitschen den Kulturwandel auf die Fahnen schrieben, haben sie die Rechnung offenbar ohne den Betriebsrat gemacht. So wollte der...
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