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Standard Chartered has hired Credit Suisse’s head of fixed income sales as...
Standard Chartered has been making some senior hires as it continues the build out of its markets business under Roberto Hoornweg, the former Brevan Howard partner who joined at the beginning of this...
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Everyone’s interviewing with…Moelis & Co.
If you’re looking for a new junior M&A job in London, you could do worse than trying Moelis & Co. Insiders and recruiters say the boutique is hiring heavily. “We’re interviewing and hiring at...
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Morning Coffee: Horribly lean year now assured for many in banking. Laid-off...
U.S. banks’ trading revenues have plunged, leading them to rely on other business units for growth or at least stability. However, even if trading picks up between now and year’s end, traders’ bonuses...
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This HFT firm has increased London headcount by 15% and pays over £500k
Spire Europe, the UK-based arm of high frequency trading giant Tower Research Capital, has been building its London operation even as rival firms prepare to move jobs to Amsterdam after Brexit. The HFT...
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Banker sacked for sending inappropriate Tinder message
Beware Tinder. As use of the dating app spreads in banking, so too does the risk of a cataclysm between seductive communications, banks’ enthusiasm for monitoring employees’ messages and...
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Six Wall Street jobs that are best for extroverts, five that are better for...
Wall Street doesn’t attract wallflowers. Investment banks used to target the jocks, team captains and college club leaders and even back office or accounting jobs were not staffed by introverts. This...
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Senior trader leaves Credit Suisse job after just 12 months
Warwick Palmer is understood to have left his trading job at Credit Suisse. Recruiters say Palmer is no longer the Swiss bank’s global head of G10 EM/FX spot, forwards and derivatives trading. Palmers’...
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The top universities for the 2017 analyst class at Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan...
Talk to graduate recruiters at investment banks and they’ll suggest that they don’t want to take a ‘cookie-cutter’ approach to hiring. The ideal candidate – the theory goes – is a well-rounded...
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Goldman’s looking for a significant tech person in Frankfurt
Goldman Sachs’ European technology jobs are increasingly located in Warsaw. Warsaw is where the firm houses its European technology and operations unit. It’s also where Goldman’s shunting some front...
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AI might kill off your finance job, but…
There are plenty of arguments why artificial intelligence is likely to take your job on Wall Street. It’s already moving towards investment banks advisory roles, top performing hedge funds are relying...
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Morning Coffee: Insomniac portfolio manager’s worst fear realized. Young...
It’s happened. No sooner had Amer Bisat, a New York-based portfolio manager with Blackrock confided to Bloomberg that fear of quantitative easing coming to an end keeps him awake at night, than Janet...
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This $1.2bn hedge fund centred around a star trader makes £5m, pays £450k
While the hedge fund industry as a whole struggles, there are a few start-ups headed by star names that are hoovering up assets and posting impressive performance. Think Chris Rokos at Rokos Capital...
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Credit Agricole is moving trading jobs out of London this weekend
It’s happening. Just as the government of French president Emmanuel Macron announces a new policy of cutting payroll taxes for bankers moving from Paris to London, we understand that French bank Credit...
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An ex-Goldman Sachs insider’s 10 tips on how to sail through investment...
It’s graduate recruitment season in investment banks. While the vast majority of front office roles go to summer analysts who have converted their internship, most investment banks will shortly close...
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New bonus fears for traders at Deutsche Bank and Barclays
As we approach the fourth quarter and therefore the end of the year and therefore bonuses, a nasty thought is starting to percolate around some corners of some trading floors: what if too much was...
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Hedge fund set up by ex-Bridgewater exec has poached a new head of quant...
Tudor Investment Corporation may be shifting its approach to computer-driven tools that imitate its best portfolio managers after cutting 15% of its headcount last year, but a senior quant at the firm...
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Why investment bankers cry in the work washrooms
Bankers love to cry. Go check out the men’s room stalls and you’ll see what I mean. They’re in there. I’m not one to talk. I’ve cried too. What brings this on? I’ve worked in banking 18 years. Here’s...
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So, what’s a tier 1, tier 2 and tier 3 investment bank now?
Once upon a time, people used to talk about “bulge bracket investment banks,” a term that loosely meant top US banks like Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and (then) Merrill Lynch. The bulge bracket passed...
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Morning Coffee: The man striking fear into the hearts of Wall Street titans....
It’s not often you get to intimidate senior hedge fund managers and investment bankers. It’s rarer still for them to pay for the privilege. But Wall Street big-wigs are lining to up meet Lev Alburt, a...
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Ex-Goldman, Barclays and Lloyds MD has just jumped to a fintech firm after 30...
Adam Barrett, the head of institutional sales at Lloyd Banking Group has joined the exodus from banking to fintech. After more than 30 years in investment banking, at UBS, Goldman Sachs and Barclays,...
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