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Freezing sperm and saving lives: why women in STEM don’t do finance
Dr Sonia Contera is a brilliant woman. A professor of experimental physics at Oxford University’s Clarendon Lab, she could easily have worked at somewhere like Winton Capital Management or Two Sigma,...
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Morning Coffee: Why you should not seek your parents’ advice on your finance...
Christmas is coming and you might be inclined to talk to your family about your career. However, unless they also work in finance, there may not be not much point. Such is the suggestion of David...
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Grumbling and stress at Deutsche Bank’s office in Birmingham
Given the extent of Deutsche Bank’s troubles (the bank’s share price is down again today, leaving Deutsche the 90th biggest bank in the world behind Axis Bank in India), a state of minor insurrection...
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Inside the fintech filled with 28 year-olds working 13 hour days
If you want to leave banking and work in the fintech sector – or simply to sidestep banking altogether and go straight to fintech – you may have heard of Revolut. Based in London, the app-based bank...
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How to dress for a hedge fund interview
Unless you’re out soliciting money from high-net worth clients, the dress code at most hedge funds is rather ambiguous. Most people don’t wear suits, though some do. Others dress business casual or...
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Morning Coffee: Senior banker said to leave after “inappropriate conduct”...
A high ranking male banker, a junior female colleague, a New York hotel bar and an event that nobody will talk about in public, but which has profound career consequences. It’s a story familiar to...
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The unwelcome guests at Tidjane Thiam’s Credit Suisse party
Most people quite like working at Tidjane Thiam’s Credit Suisse. During today’s (ongoing) 2018 Credit Suisse investor day presentations, Thiam presented the results to a recent survey which said 88% of...
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Banking headcount to ‘drop like a railroad stock’ as AI expands
Artificial intelligence and machine learning have already made their imprint on investment banks and other financial firms. The main applications currently revolve around trading, but people like...
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Why most front office banking jobs will stay in London until 2021, hard...
As Brexit goes from bad to mind-numbingly-abominable and possibly worse (before getting better?), London finance professionals could be forgiven for thinking they’ll be shunted to Frankfurt and Paris...
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Boutique PJT Partners adding headcount to its new activist defense unit
Activist defense has quietly become a bigger source of revenue for investment banks over the last few years as corporations are looking for help dealing with public campaigns from the likes of Bill...
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Credit Suisse shows you’ll need to be a great technologist to get into a bank...
You probably won’t remember this – unless you happen to be the sort of geek who recalls banking presentations, but last year’s Credit Suisse investor day included an interesting chart. The chart,...
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Morning Coffee: Citi’s brand new MDs show who’s special now. Banking IT...
After Goldman Sachs and Bank of America, Citigroup has become the latest to announce who’s made managing director (MD) for 2018. Business Insider has procured Citi’s list of 125 people, of whom 37 are...
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This is how much you will earn at D.E. Shaw in London
If you’re a quant who wants to work for a hedge fund, you probably want to work for D.E. Shaw. Heralded as “the first great quant hedge fund,” D.E. Shaw launched in above a Marxist bookshop in New York...
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Deutsche Bank’s ex-head of corporate strategy just joined J.P. Morgan
Yet another ex-Deutsche Bank MD has proven that there is life after the German bank. Ali Almakky, the bank’s former global head of corporate strategy has just turned up at J.P. Morgan, six months after...
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Parisian bankers and recruiters complain of “French-bashing” over gilets jaunes
Will the ‘gilets jaunes’ (rioters in yellow high-vis jackets) dissuade banks from moving staff from London to Paris? A London trader writing here last week argued that they will. London finance...
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Barclays nabs Credit Suisse markets tech head before the holidays
Barclays has poached a high-ranking technology lead from Credit Suisse just before the end of the year. Chris Wells, a former managing director of global markets technology at Credit Suisse, started at...
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Morning Coffee: The ‘agony and ecstasy’ of working for Elon Musk....
Despite all the negative headlines surrounding Elon Musk, the next-generation of engineering talent is still lining up to work for the man. More than 13,000 students recently rated Tesla as the fourth...
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Barclays’ new managing director list reflects the bank’s big issue now
Barclays has just announced its list of new managing directors (MDs) for 2018. Congratulations to the 85 lucky people, who are predominantly men, predominantly based in the U.S. or London, and are all...
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ExodusPoint’s new big hire suggests the dangers of leaving a cosy bank job...
ExodusPoint Capital Management is still at it. The $8bn hedge fund, which has been one of this year’s big hirers on both sides of the Atlantic, just added Stanislas de Caumont in London. De Caumont...
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Words you should always include on your banking resume
If you’re going to get a job in banking, then you’re going to need excellent qualifications. But you’ll also need a CV that can make it past banks’ applicant tracking systems (ATS) that check for...
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