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Hedge fund’s top 24 year-old coder shares his secrets
Matthew Ridley, 24, has won this year’s Python coding prize competition at Man AHL. He’s now £5k ($6.3k) richer and has attracted the attention of one of the UK’s top quantitative hedge funds – which...
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One of Deutsche Bank’s top technology bankers has just launched his own boutique
One of Deutsche Bank’s most senior technology investment bankers in the U.S. has left the bank and kicked off his own advisory boutique targeting start-ups. Andrew Kass, who was a managing director in...
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Lessons I learned from my Barclays internship
Summer internships are the most important thing you can do as a student trying to get into a bank, and there’s no shortage of advice on how to make the most of them and eventually secure a full-time...
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I’m hiring in fintech: these are the interview questions I will ask you
During my long career in banking – both in Europe and here in Asia – I’ve been on both sides of the ‘recruitment divide’, having been a hiring manager and a new recruit (temp, perm, you name it – done...
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Morning Coffee: The best months to land a new banking job. Strange...
If you’re looking for a new job in banking, you might think February’s the time to find one. After all, bonuses at U.S. banks have been paid and hiring budgets have been refreshed for a new year. In...
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Where MBAs have a 1.4% chance of getting into Goldman Sachs – and this is the...
Goldman Sachs was the biggest investment bank employer of London Business School MBAs last year, but just 1.4% of graduates managed to secure a job there. LBS’s MBA costs £75.1k ($94k), but the love...
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Credit Suisse has killed its markets business, except…
The salespeople and traders in Credit Suisse’s global markets business didn’t have a good 2016. Call it over-zealous cost cutting, or too much trimming of risk weighted assets (RWAs), or a lack of...
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Hedge funds hope to avoid destruction by copying Google
Hedge funds will soon have to fill their offices with helter-skelters, Ferris wheels and sleeping pods if they want to continue to attract the talent they need to survive. And in order to reach these...
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10 reasons people don’t date bankers
You work in an investment bank and you’re single. And it’s Valentine’s Day. The horror. Clearly not everyone in finance is facing the prospect of a solitary evening in with a box-set. And clearly not...
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Chinese banks are hiring on Wall Street, but there’s a catch
While U.S. and European banks alike have been shedding headcount in leveraged finance, Chinese banks are pushing ahead with hiring on Wall Street. There’s just one catch – you need to speak Mandarin....
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Morning Coffee: Goldman Sachs and the undeserving 20%. The boozy Jabba the...
Goldman Sachs, the investment bank that has always insisted that it will continue to pay for performance as its competitors bemoan compensation ratios, has handed out donuts to 20% of its staff. This...
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J.P. Morgan has no need of your intelligence
Timothée Linyer used to work for J.P. Morgan. He was an analyst on the bank’s healthcare team until, like plenty of other analysts nowadays, he quit to found a start-up. While other ex-analysts busy...
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The top universities for the 2017 summer intern class at Goldman Sachs, J.P....
Investment banks in the UK are under more pressure than ever to ensure their graduate recruits come from more diverse backgrounds, following a damning report suggesting that most people hired into the...
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Seven survival tips when you work for a boutique investment bank
Working in a large financial services organisation often necessitates being part of a small fiefdom, where playing office politics is as important for your promotion prospects as any performance...
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Co-head of UK investment bank said to leave UBS before bonuses
UBS has already announced its bonuses for 2016. Unfortunately, some of its senior investment bankers won’t be around to receive them. London headhunters say UBS has been trimming some of its senior...
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Morning Coffee: Credit Suisse in unusual display of generosity to its...
So, we now have an idea what Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam meant when he said at Davos that bonuses at the Swiss bank would be okay this year. He meant that Credit Suisse would be paying its...
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Top Barclays rates salesman moves to Wells Fargo
Barclays has lost one of its most senior rates salesman in London. He has resurfaced at Wells Fargo – one of the few banks still talking up a UK expansion. Daniel Wrobel, who worked at Barclays for 12...
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Morgan Stanley M&A bankers “grunting” about bonuses. Credit Suisse letting go...
Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse’s M&A bankers out-performed the market in 2016, but – Credit Suisse’s Asian investment bankers aside – they don’t seem to be getting much thanks for it. As the...
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Jerry del Missier’s tiny investment firm has been hiring from Deutsche Bank...
Remember Jerry del Missier? The former COO of Barclays investment bank, and reportedly one of the highest paid people at the firm, set up his own private equity style investment firm on the outskirts...
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Why I quit my huge job at Google to launch a new fintech firm
Most fintech start-up CEOs tend to come from finance. Brett Crosby, who recently started PeerStreet – an investing platform for real estate loans – has spent the past decade in the inner sanctum at...
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