Die zehn peinlichsten Fehler aus Schweizer Vorstellungsgesprächen
Vorstellungsgespräche stellen die entscheidende Hürde vor jedem neuen Job dar. Das hält viele Kandidaten nicht davon ab, sich mit peinlichen Fehlern um alle Chancen zu bringen. Wir haben Schweizer...
View ArticleSantander’s been silently sucking up fixed income traders from other banks
Santander is mourning the death last night of Emilio Botín, the Spanish patriarch who made the bank what it is today. Emilio’s daughter and CEO of the UK business, Ana Patricia, is expected to replace...
View ArticleHow to get an entry level job in debt capital markets
If a company wants to expand, but doesn’t want to sacrifice private-ownership, it’s more likely that they’ll turn to debt capital markets (DCM), over issuing equity, in order to finance it. DCM teams...
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JPMorgan Suggests These Front Office Banking Jobs Are Best for 2015
With three and a half months left of 2014, which banking jobs should you be positioning yourself for next year? JPMorgan’s banking analysts have just issued a new research note with some hints and...
View ArticlePimco’s new growth plans have nothing to do with bonds
Bill Gross’s long-running and once highly-celebrated Pimco Total Return Fund has suffered net redemptions for 15 consecutive months, due mainly to a poor performing bond market and some turmoil within...
View ArticleThe best bargain for a top undergraduate finance degree
If you want to work on Wall Street, go to the University of Pennsylvania – whether for your graduate or post-graduate degree, it appears to offer the shortest avenue to a top banking job. In March,...
View ArticleCiti hedge fund veterans go it alone
The former head of sales and capital introduction for Citigroup’s European prime finance division, Paul Harvey, has just received regulatory approval to launch his own hedge fund product, along with...
View ArticleINTERVIEW mit PwC-Managerin: Wie lassen sich Kinder und Karriere in M&A...
Nach einem BWL-Studium hat Astrid Mayerhöfer 1995 ihre Karriere im Bereich Corporate Finance bei PwC begonnen, wo sie sich kurz darauf auf M&A spezialisierte. In 2000 wechselt sie als...
View ArticleHow to get an entry level job in equity capital markets
Stock markets may be the public face of the financial sector, but before a company’s shares can be traded, they must be created and it’s the equity capital markets (ECM) investment bankers who help...
View ArticleThe current state of salaries, bank by bank
Last time we looked at the state of salaries in investment banks, it was 2010 (hence the ancient comments at the bottom of this article, which is an updated version of that piece.) Back then, the...
View ArticleBig bank cuts traders despite improving market conditions
Bank of America apparently didn’t get the memo that trading revenues have been improving during the third quarter. BofA said goodbye to two high-ranking trading executives this week and is said to be...
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Plus de 3.500 CDI à décrocher chez les Big Four
Signe tangible de reprise : les Big Four prévoient de recruter plus de 3.500 personnes en CDI l’an prochain en France. Un chiffre en hausse de 19% par rapport aux prévisions pour 2014, communiquées il...
View ArticleSenior FIG banker leaves Standard Chartered after four months, joins Lloyds
At the top of the tree in investment banking, people moves are glacial affairs – six-month notice periods, gardening leave and, increasingly, “puritanism and risk aversion” delaying the hiring process....
View ArticleCompliance jobs in banks: High pressure, high reward
While many professions today are not much different from what they were ten years ago, the role of the compliance professional in banking can certainly be said to have undergone more change in recent...
View ArticleBarclays is letting go of 45 people a day. But who are they exactly?
To talk to fixed income recruiters in London, you’d think Barclays investment bank was in the middle of a bloodbath. “It’s awful there,” says one. “Whole swathes of people are being cut. 20 at a time,...
View ArticleWie Sie bei der Fragerunde am Ende eines Vorstellungsgesprächs punkten
Am Ende eines jeden Vorstellungsgesprächs erhält der Bewerber die Gelegenheit selbst Fragen zu stellen. Diese Chancen sollte sich ein Kandidat nicht entgehen lassen; erlaubt dies doch Extrapunkte zu...
View ArticleAvec 260k £ annuel, les banquiers à Londres sont-ils devenus pauvres ?
Si vous êtes banquier à Londres, la dernière décennie vous laissera sans doute un goût très amer… En cause, l’érosion inexorable des revenus disponibles après les dépenses de logement. Les données du...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Bizarre career change for banker at Citi. Scottish...
Fixed income traders fearful for their futures now have a whole new career path open to them: they can move into equities. A senior credit trader at Citigroup has shown the way. Financial News reports...
View ArticleHow to get an entry level job in sales and trading
Every day, millions of financial products are bought and sold in the secondary markets where traders and salespeople in investment banks work together to trade for clients after a security’s initial...
View ArticleMischievous banker who retired at 43 is at heart of Scottish independence debate
Remember Noble Group? At its prime, the Scottish-based investment banking and fund management firm employed 150 people, 50 of whom worked in its office in Edinburgh. But in 2010, Noble Group was sold...
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