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Which is the best bank and business to work for in your region?
Want to work for a business and a bank that’s growing in your business and your region? Make your choice with care. Although we’re fast approaching the end of the second quarter, banks’ performance by...
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This is what really happens when you quit Goldman Sachs for Google
Remember David Ha? He’s the former Goldman Sachs managing director and co-head of Japanese rates trading who landed a highly sought-after 12 month residency at Google Brain, Google’s program for...
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Why one of BlackRock’s top strategists decided to quit
Size matters in financial services, but when it comes to the next step in your career path, bigger isn’t always better. Sometimes the opportunity to break free of the constraints of a huge organization...
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What’s it really like as junior in an investment bank?
When James Trant told friends he was joining at Goldman Sachs, they were apprehensive on his behalf. The expectation was that Goldman would be, “brutal”, said Trant last month. In fact, Trant told us...
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Morning Coffee: The senior bankers who voted socialist. Letting go of an...
Britain’s general election threw up a multitude of surprises, but none more so than 16,333 people in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea who voted for Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party. As the...
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Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank traders are joining this hedge fund
Remember Ryan Sbarra? He’s the former head of the sterling rates desk at Deutsche Bank who quit unexpectedly in May. He’s just turned up at Millennium Capital Partners in London. And he’s not alone....
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The highest paying internships in investment banks on Wall Street and the...
Internships are now the number one route into a finance job. This is not just in investment banking – where anything up to 90% of front office graduate hires are intern conversions – but increasingly...
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“Nothing has changed”– London finance recruiters say they’re busier than ever
With Britain plunged into a period of uncertainty following last week’s general election, has hiring in the City been put on hold? Absolutely not, say London’s finance recruiters, most of whom seem...
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The only good jobs in banking now, by Deutsche Bank
While London recruiters shrug off results to last week’s UK general election, banking analysts at Deutsche Bank have just issued a comprehensive note on the state of the banking industry worldwide. It...
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A step-by-step guide to acing informational interviews for investment banking
Most analyst and associate classes at investment banks get filled through internship programs and campus visits. The problem for many hopeful bankers is that the Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgans of the...
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Is it harder to get ahead at J.P. Morgan, or Goldman Sachs?
Jamie Dimon’s done it again. COO and heir apparent Matt Zames resigned last week in a move that was interpreted as the J.P. Morgan CEO’s latest successful effort at unseating potential successors....
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Eight reasons to work in wealth management, or not
The financial services industry offers plenty of excellent careers opportunities, but many students and career-changers are unsure of which part of the industry to join. Here are various reasons for...
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Morning Coffee: The tech lifestyle vs. the banking lifestyle (they’re both...
Investment banking jobs are arduous. Even though some young bankers insist the working hours are bearable, endless 14 hour days extract a toll. Junior bankers are still collapsing with exhaustion,...
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How I used my MBA as a springboard into my first Asian financial services job
Canadian finance professional Stuart Mercier got his first taste of Asia when he visited Hong Kong as a teenager. More than 20 years later, Mercier is now fulfilling his ambition to live and work in...
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Goldman Sachs, BAML, Unicredit are hiring e-trading expertise
While cash equities traders and traditional salespeople continue to languish, electronic trading (e-trading) skills remain in demand. Both Goldman Sachs and UniCredit have both made recent electronic...
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Barclays said to hire ex-Goldman Sachs quant trader Asita Anche
As it builds up its trading business, Barclays is understood to have hired Asita Anche, a former managing director in Goldman Sachs’ fixed income systematic market making division. Anche joined Goldman...
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5 ways the proposed changes to the Volcker Rule would affect Wall Street...
You’ll probably know that after markets closed last night, Steve Mnuchin’s treasury department issued a detailed report outlining the regulatory changes proposed by the Trump administration. Most...
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UBS just hired a senior NYC equity researcher from Nomura
Brock Vandervliet has just joined UBS as an executive director and senior analyst covering the mid-cap commercial bank and mortgage finance sectors in the equity research department in New York....
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Bankers have been complaining about their lives to a student
Whatever you do, don’t get someone who works in a bank onto subject of their pet peeves – particularly if that person happens to be a former bank employee who now does something much more socially...
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Morning Coffee: Goldman saves juniors from drudgery. Goldmanites take hold at...
The life of a Goldman Sachs analyst appears to be becoming less gruelling and tedious…but potentially more unstable. This is not the result of protected Saturdays or other programs designed to appease...
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