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Bank by bank, this is what they’re saying about jobs and hiring now
Now that Easter’s passed, this should be the moment hiring heats up as banks pursue strategic hiring priorities for 2017. – Except that most banks don’t seem to have any strategic hiring priorities for...
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Eight of the hardest CFA questions, and how to answer them
You need to do at least 300 hours of study to pass each of the three CFA level exams. Or, you can always follow our guide to prepping for the CFA exams. Even so, the chances are that you could be...
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Why the buy-side is winning the battle for the hottest machine learning talent
There’s a new and increasingly important job in financial services – the head of machine learning. Hedge funds, investment banks and large asset managers are creating these roles and battling for...
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I’ve just quit my senior trading job to become a Wall Street headhunter....
PJ D’Amelio had wanted to quit the trading floor for a while, but it took being laid off from his job as head of European equities at Canacord Genuity for him to make the leap – into recruitment. “It...
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How Brexit killed American bankers’ dreams of London
In Britain’s home counties there is the wife of a senior American banker who thinks that Brexit is mostly a good thing. “Brexit makes sense,” she says. “When the EU made laws limiting maximum vacuum...
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Morning Coffee: London banker on $400k pinpoints why he doesn’t feel rich....
Thomas Piketty was onto something. The French economist, who published his 2.5m-selling treatise on global inequality in 2014, predicted that the top earners in the 21st century wouldn’t be the senior...
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Bold new career moves of ex-HSBC senior investment bankers
HSBC is ejecting senior investment bankers, and they’re not just going off and getting another banking job. Yes, some – like the former head of FIG Ben Leonard – might be going off to sell organic...
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HSBC’s traders are good. But don’t go getting too excited
First HSBC hired someone from Goldman Sachs to run its global banking division. Then it cut people across investment banking and sales and trading. Now, things seem to be going right. In the first...
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How to get among the 4% of people hired by Deloitte
Deloitte is the biggest of the Big Four professional services firm, while it hires thousands of people every year, it’s standards remain high. “We’re always looking for the best talent, and we’re...
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My parents were poor. Banks love me because of it
It’s supposed to be hard to get a banking job if you don’t come from the middle classes. Banks are supposed to love elite students who play high level tennis and have spent a year volunteering in...
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Five reasons why leaders fail
Is the lesson from history that leaders succeed until they fail? You might think fixed-terms presidencies or other forced retirement options help to avoid eventual inevitable failure, allowing leaders...
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5D leadership
Want to land a leadership role where you’ll shine? This is a good place to start. By Randall S Peterson When the world comes knocking on your door saying, “We need you to do this,” stop and think...
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10 pet peeves that drive financial services HR employees up the wall
Every financial services job has its unique sources of stress and frustration, and HR is no exception. While many discount HR as merely the first hurdle of the interview process, if you’re applying for...
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M&A hiring heats up on Wall Street as 2nd tier banks pile in
Has Donald Trump been kind to M&A bankers or hasn’t he? It’s a moot point: for all the froth about record banking deals in the first 100 days of his presidency, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and...
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Morning Coffee: Banks can’t get enough of these 40-year-olds. University...
After more than five years of painful job cuts, there are signs that many investment banks are actually hiring senior traders again (even those who don’t know how to code). In response to soaring fixed...
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Deutsche Bank’s ex-head of FICC structuring: “Start out in a bank”
There’s a popular narrative among former senior bankers – particularly ex-Deutsche Bankers – about going into the industry. You could do better. You’re a smart and entrepreneurial? Banking is not for...
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Goldman Sachs just poached one of Deutsche’s top salespeople
Goldman Sachs seemingly has its eye on the disaffected fixed income professionals of Deutsche Bank. The U.S. firm is understood to have hired Miran Serdarevic, Deutsche’s head of real money sales in...
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Anshu Jain brings in another MD at Cantor Fitzgerald
A new Jain army is beginning to form at Cantor Fitzgerald. Since the former Deutsche Bank CEO joined as present in January, senior names have been flocking towards the U.S brokerage firm. The latest...
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Meet the “digital investment banks” coming for your IBD job
First they came for the equities traders and the FX traders. Then they came for the CDS index traders. Now, it seems, the computers are coming for the jobs of people working in M&A and capital...
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I’m a quant in an investment bank. It’s not what you think
I’m a quant in an investment bank. Thanks to the rise of “big data”, me and my kind are suddenly popular again. But very few quant jobs in banks are involved with big data and far too many lead to dead...
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