How much would you earn if you left banking and joined Boston Consulting Group in London? And how high would your salary be if you stayed long enough to make partner? Accounts filed by The Boston Consulting Group LLP in London suggest the consultancy […]
So you think you want to work in an investment bank? That’s nice. But do you really? Yes, you want the money, but do you have the faintest flicker of an idea what you’re actually signing up to here? You […]
The health of China’s real estate sector is in the spotlight with reports property giant Evergrande could default on its $300bn debt pile, and that the private banking arms of Credit Suisse and Citibank are no longer accepting the bonds […]
I’ve spent this summer as an intern on the trading floor at a major U.S. bank in London. As I wrote before, it hasn’t been a very pleasant experience culturally. I am also exhausted due to the hours. Everyone complains about […]
Over the last couple of years there have been plenty of anecdotes about high paid front office staff leaving London to move to Frankfurt and Paris as a result of Brexit, but hard data is always difficult to come by. […]
Once upon a time, people working for Goldman Sachs’ new office in London ate their food in a large room looking a bit like a cross between a school assembly hall and a conference venue, where there was sometimes an aroma of […]
If you’re an algorithmic trader, and you’re interested in breaking out of algo trading and working for, say, Amazon or Facebook, Jason Tatton appears to have the answer: you just need to invent your own coding language. Tatton is the ex-JPMorgan […]
Hiring at hedge fund Two Sigma is skewed towards engineering talent. Accounts just released for its operation in London show that 31 of its 43 employees in 2020 were engineers, six were modellers, and six were corporate staff. Working in […]
If you’re a junior investment banker slogging yourself to death in an understaffed team on a relentless flow of live deals, you probably don’t want to know about all the people getting paid to do nothing this summer, but they […]
Chinese millennials are joining up to the lying flat movement as they reject long working hours – but bankers wont be joining them. Chinese 20-somethings are rejecting the country’s 9-9-6 “hustle” culture, where people work 12 hours a day from […]
