Yesterday was a bad day for Thomas Gottstein, CEO of Credit Suisse. Having taken the job last year and promised to move the bank to a “growth phase” in 2021, he’s now faced with a mini-financial crisis in the form […]
Author: Stéphanie
What I miss most about campus since the pandemic…By The Harvard Gazette
Recalling the simple ties that bind us to one another, and to a place. Casual conversations in a crowded classroom or on a busy street. Visits to a favorite café or courtyard. They’re the daily pleasures we long took for […]
The graduate jobs that receive the fewest applications
If you can’t find a graduate job this year, maybe you should ‘pivot’ your application into something different? 2020-2021 is proving to be a dire year for student hiring, but some sectors are easiest to get into than others. As […]
First bank reveals bonus pool and it’s not bad
The bonus whispers have begun. If they’re to be trusted, JPMorgan traders can expect a 20% rise in bonuses but JPMorgan bankers can’t, and ‘flat will be the new up’ at Bank of America. One bank, however, has moved beyond the whisper stage. Today […]
My investment banking mentor was a sociopath
I’m a student in my final year at university and I want to warn other students about a bad encounter I had with a managing director at a leading Wall Street bank in New York who volunteered to be my mentor. I […]
Il est temps que les banques arrêtent de recruter des femmes dans la vente pour leur apparence physique
Cela va sembler sexiste, mais j’assiste à beaucoup de conférences et cela me désole toujours de voir des stands remplis de femmes attirantes dont le principal but semble d’attirer l’attention du sexe opposé à des fins marketing. C’est encore plus […]
Goldman Sachs told most London staff to WFH from Thursday
Following yesterday’s announcement of a new U.K. lockdown from November 5th to December 2nd, Richard Gnodde, CEO of Goldman Sachs International, has emailed London staff saying that only those designated as, “in-office essential” should come into the London office from Thursday. Gnodde says […]
Chinese investment banks are hiring in Hong Kong during Covid. But there’s a catch
If you’re a job seeker in Hong Kong and you want to work for one of the world’s top-10 investment banks by market capitalisation, you could try Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley, which respectively rank in first and second place. […]
This looks bad for 2020 bonuses at Citi
No one knows how big the bonus pool is in Citi’s institutional clients unit (its investment bank): it’s not something the bank breaks out, but it’s hard to conceive that the accidental loss of $900m won’t impact it somehow. The loss, needless to […]
“Entry level tech jobs have vanished thanks to COVID”
I’m a masters student at one of the top universities in the U.K. and am studying computer science. This year, it seems that entry level jobs in technology have almost disappeared. I’m one of the lucky ones: I completed an […]