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Top quant trader leaves Credit Suisse in NYC after 13 months
A senior trader in Credit Suisse’s New York City systematic strategies unit is leaving the bank not very long after he arrived. Photios Harmantzis, a director in Credit Suisse’s NYC Systematic...
View ArticleThe poisonous 20-something investment bankers to avoid
An investment bank’s analyst program is a prestigious first step towards a promising career. If you’re fortunate enough to achieve place, you’ll find a deep pool of talent, with generally three...
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Morning Coffee: Andrea Orcel says 25% of M&A bankers won’t make it. The man...
Andrea Orcel, the president of the investment banking division at UBS, said that one in every four M&A advisory investment bankers doesn’t work out and that he prefers to hire them through...
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This one investment bank is still making major hires in London
Even after a couple of decent quarters, few investment banks are pulling the trigger on senior hires. There’s one exception in London, however – Wells Fargo. The U.S. bank has made another managing...
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Meet the men bringing Goldman Sachs’ SecDB to the masses
If you work in investment banking technology, you should know the names of Kirat Singh and Mark Higgins. Both men have been at the heart of some of the biggest projects at large banks – Goldman Sachs’...
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11 survival tips for analysts and associates in investment banking
Joining an investment banks graduate programme is no guarantee that you’ll go on to become a real investment banker. Not only are more millennial analysts heading out on their own with increasing...
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Don’t be fake: How IEX’s “Flash Boys” boost employee morale
Should you be yourself at work? In the political financial services sector, the concept of authenticity might be viewed as both a the latest HR fad and a genuinely unwise course of action. However,...
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This man has just quit Silicon Valley to join Lloyds Banking Group in London
While investment banks bemoan the exodus of talent to Silicon Valley, fintech firms or – in the advisory divisions – corporate development roles, one former senior researcher has quit Palo Alto for the...
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Morning Coffee: How to land mega-deals like Ken Moelis. What Tim Throsby has...
Now that the $143bn Kraft Heinz-Unilever mega-deal has already fallen by the wayside, it’s worth noting that Samco Arabia’s huge IPO, which could generate $1bn in fees for investment banks, is underway...
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Point72 Asset Management warns applicants on new recruitment scam
How desperate are you to get a job at a hedge fund? Scammers are attempting to take advantage of the clamour to get into a buy-side job by phishing for applicants’ personal details. In the latest...
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Deutsche Bank just called the 3 worst banking jobs of 2017
Where don’t you want to work in 2017? Try M&A, U.S, European and Asian equities, or FX. So says the latest capital markets pulse from Deutsche’s European banking analysts. The pulse uses trading...
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Goldman Sachs MD quits to join brokerage in Abu Dhabi
A Goldman Sachs managing director who moved from London to Dubai before the financial crisis hit, has just taken a role heading up investment banking for a local player in Abu Dhabi. Adam Clayton, a...
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J.P. Morgan quietly hired a global head of machine learning from Microsoft
When we spoke to Sameer Gupta, a former COO for J.P. Morgan’s global electronic equities trading business, last month, he said banks have been hiring all the wrong people for machine learning and...
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“I quit the City for Wall Street and I’ve never looked back”
Two years ago, I moved to New York after nearly a decade in the City of London and let me tell you – it’s the best move I ever made. Wall Street could benefit from Brexit, and those investment bankers...
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Forget Brexit, overseas bankers still want jobs in London
Who would you want to work in the City of London nowadays? The British government still seems woefully unprepared for what happens to EU nationals living in the UK, European cities are queuing up to...
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Mizuho continues to hire senior bankers as it expands its Wall Street operations
Mizuho is a relatively small investment bank with big ambitions for its U.S. operations. It’s hiring in IBD and for its markets business and has just brought in two more senior bankers. Gerry Rieger, a...
View Article“How my MBA is gearing me up for future success in Asian banking”
By 2016, eight years into his career, Keeve Tan was already enjoying considerable success in the banking sector. He was working in exchange traded derivatives within the global markets team at UOB in...
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Morning Coffee: Banker paid 55% less than peers explains why he keeps going....
The utility you derive from money is relative. $500k is a lot until you come across someone similar to you who’s got $1m. Historically, no one was more conscious of this – or more prone to having a fit...
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Credit Suisse investment banking associate leaves to join Uber
A Credit Suisse associate who joined the bank immediately after completing an MBA has jumped across to Uber after just three years at the bank. Reid Simon, who was an associate at Credit Suisse in New...
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Equities trader with ‘perfect career’ finds a new hedge fund job
Rohit Agarwal, a former J.P. Morgan prop trader who joined hedge fund Lansdowne Partners in 2014 to help set up a new energy fund, has left to work for a different hedge fund. Agarwal’s exit from...
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