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The global head of equity derivatives has officially left Credit Suisse
Anthony Pesco wasn’t one of the recipients of Credit Suisse’s generous retention bonuses. After 18 years with the Swiss bank in NYC, he’s officially left the bank Pesco was Credit Suisse’s global head...
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Goldman Sachs salesman escapes for a hedge fund, returns eight months later
Escaping the trading floor of a large investment bank for a job at a hot new hedge fund is the dream for many on the sell-side, but it’s not always a permanent move. Rodrigo Albero, who was head of...
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The nature of trading jobs at Deutsche vs. trading jobs at Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse’s sales and trading business is run by a former accountant. Deutsche Bank’s is not. We’d suggest you can see the difference in the charts below, taken from the banks’ recently published...
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The semi-official Goldman Sachs resumé template
If you’re trying to put together a CV or resumé with an eye to getting a job at Goldman Sachs, you might be wondering what to include. Clearly you need to include your educational attainments. Clearly...
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Senior bond trader leaves BNP Paribas as cuts take hold
BNP Paribas promised to scale down its investment bank in the UK last week, and now senior markets staff in London have started to depart. Most significantly, we understand that Michael Wheeler, BNP...
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“I launched a private equity firm when I was only 26. Here’s how I did it”
While the average 26-year-old investment banker may have aspirations to join a private equity firm as a junior, Gina Heng had other ideas: she founded her own. The Singaporean’s rapid rise from...
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Morning Coffee: European bank luring 26 year-olds with an extra $125k. Where...
If you’re a European bank trying to get ahead in 2017, North America looks like the promised land. As Dealogic’s recent review of capital markets activity in the first quarter explained, the U.S. is...
View ArticleThe 10 companies financial services professionals are desperate to work for
J.P. Morgan has quietly become the investment bank that most finance professionals want to work for. It’s displaced Goldman Sachs from the top spot for the eFinancialCareers 2017 Ideal Employer...
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HSBC has hired a top trader who left CQS in November
HSBC is it. The British bank, whose investment banking operations are now under the control of former Goldman Sachs banker Mathew Westerman, has hired a well known trader who left a well known hedge...
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Jefferies has big plans for its EM trading desk, and has been poaching from...
Don’t call Jefferies a small investment bank. At least when it comes to emerging markets trading, the U.S. investment bank has ambitions to compete with the big players – and it’s been hiring....
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I left M&A for corporate development. This is what it’s like
If you’re working in an investment banking division (IBD), you might be thinking of escaping to the buy-side. Maybe you want to cut your working hours? Be warned: if you move to private equity, this...
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The banks paying juniors the most are not the ones you think
Which investment banks in London pay the juniors in their investment banking divisions (IBD) the most? You might think it would be the big U.S. houses with their deep pockets and deep fees. It’s not,...
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Morning Coffee: The cunning plots to save the City of London from Brexit....
Today is D-day – Theresa May is about to pull the trigger on Article 50 to get the UK’s formal exit from the EU under way. But, as the City of London awaits a potential dreaded hard Brexit, there are...
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Why you can’t find a new finance job – yet
It’s not you, it’s the market. If you’re looking for a new front office banking job and you can’t find one, that might be because banks are still biding their time. This could be about to change,...
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The former head of equity strategy at Brevan Howard on how to survive as an...
Hedge funds have long been an escape route for sell-side analysts, economists and strategists looking for a way out of shrinking investment banks’ research desks, but even here they’re becoming...
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How to get into fintech if you can’t code
Fintech firms are not only looking for coders. There are plenty of jobs available to people who have a less technical background. Here are the top roles available if you want to work in fintech, but...
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A head of rates trading at Credit Suisse has left for Bluecrest
Generous retention bonuses or not, senior rates traders are coming out of Credit Suisse. Following last week’s exits from Credit Suisse’s U.S. rates team, insiders say Credit Suisse has lost a senior...
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“I’m French and I’m starting at a London bank in 2017, Brexit or not. Here’s...
I’m French, I’m just finishing my studies at a grande ecole in Paris and later this year I’ll be starting a new job at an investment bank in the City of London, just six months after Theresa May...
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So, Frankfurt, Dublin, Paris, Madrid, or Amsterdam?
It’s Article 50 day. To mark the occasion, Goldman Sachs has told staff there may be “some changes to its footprint.” Morgan Stanley has sent a memo saying it’s preparing for a worst case scenario in...
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Morning Coffee: 46 year-old ex-Credit Suisse MD struggling despite earning...
The thought that there might be people ‘struggling by’ on $1m a year isn’t unfamiliar on these pages. Bankers on low seven figure “packages” have been bemoaning their liquidity problems for the best...
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