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Morning Coffee: The great Barclays equities reversal. Deutsche’s pay pain...
Remember when Barclays cut 30% of its equities staff in December 2015? Recall that it let its head of EMEA cash equities Neal Hallett go in February? Well, it’s building again! Albeit to the tune of 20...
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A senior RBS investment banker has just joined a train company
If you’re looking for a route out of a senior investment banking role, it helps to stick close to what you know. For Will Cuthbert, who has spent the past five and a half years as head of transport,...
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JPM, Goldman, MS, Citi, BAML vs Barclays, DB, CS, UBS: Pay for analysts,...
J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs still pay their junior investment bankers the most, but Citi has hiked up bonuses for analysts, associates and VPs this year more consistently than any other investment...
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How to make it to the top as a woman at BlackRock
Sarah Melvin has worked at BlackRock for more than a decade. As an English literature major, she never planned to work in financial services, much less asset management, but she worked her way up to...
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Rubbing shoulders with Tidjane Thiam at Credit Suisse opened my eyes to new...
Most students who end up in banking know that they want to get into the industry before they even start university. Stefani Kostadinova is a student in an Eastern European university set to graduate...
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Investment banking, PE, Google or fintech: Which would you choose?
Not everyone can say, after graduating from Harvard, they became an investment banking analyst, private equity associate and senior manager of corporate development at a financial technology startup,...
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Morning Coffee: Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan are watching their employees...
Watching bankers in real time is the new thing. Last month, J.P. Morgan introduced an app that allowed its employees to send and receive criticism of their colleagues instantly, and now Goldman Sachs...
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Nomura poached top Goldman Sachs trader
Nomura is growing its emerging markets business in London. The Japanese bank appointed Anant Swarup, its North American rates head, as head of emerging markets macro in EMEA last August. Now, sources...
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Credit Suisse investment bank COO joins small private equity advisory firm
If you work for Credit Suisse’s investment bank in London, you probably know Mark Barbour-Smith. As COO for M&A in EMEA, he was also responsible for the training and development of Credit Suisse’s...
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The 3 easiest and hardest types of banking job to get now
If you’re looking for a nice easy banking job which you can semi-stroll into and where you won’t be threatened by a huge body of impeccably qualified candidates who are out of the market and would love...
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Goldman Sachs cutting technologists in London this week
Goldman Sachs is cutting London tech staff this week. But don’t worry – it’s just standard annual trimming and isn’t part of the feared transplantation of London tech staff to the firm’s new(ish)...
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Barclays’ ex-ECM chief on how to make your own boutique work
Julian Macedo, the former co-head of CEEMEA equity capital markets at Barclays, has taken the increasingly common route of quitting a big bank to go it alone, but he has no ambitions to start the next...
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12 top U.S. fintech incubators and accelerators you need to know about
So you’re sick of your banking job? Before you make the leap to fintech, realize that becoming an entrepreneur is extremely hard. If you ask any founder of a fintech startup, they’ll tell you the...
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Looking for a fixed income trading job after Q1? Don’t bet on it
Goldman Sachs excepted, the first quarter was pretty good for fixed income sales and trading revenues at U.S. banks. They all saw double digit year-on-year revenue rises; Morgan Stanley achieved a...
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Morning Coffee: Goldman may never hire senior Morgan Stanley bankers again....
Given that Morgan Stanley did so much better than Goldman Sachs in the first quarter, it seems a little ironic that a senior banker hired from Morgan Stanley has been blamed (possibly wrongly) for...
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This wealth management fintech firm is hiring…in Rhode Island
If you want to work in financial technology, you’re not always likely to be based in a major financial center. In the U.S., Rhode Island is offering incentives for companies to set up and create jobs,...
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“Credit Suisse pays all its mediocre MDs far too much”
Credit Suisse’s investment bankers and traders have a name for Tidjane Thiam: “The celebrity.” The French-educated ex-government minister who cut his teeth at the Prudential is seen as a bombastic big...
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Morning Coffee: The highest paying salaries for special 20-somethings....
Investment banks demand a lot from their graduate recruits. Clocking up 100-hours weeks, being at the beck and call of clients (and managing directors), often less than ‘challenging’ work. But here’s...
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What you should know about working for Credit Suisse now
Credit Suisse is the first major European investment bank to report its first quarter results. It’s managed to keep the fixed income party going. Across fixed income sales and trading revenues were up...
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“All the best people left banking years ago”
If you’re a young person starting in banking now, you might expect to find an industry replete with the wisdom amassed from various financial crises and filled with brilliant battle-worn managers. You...
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