JPMorgan has promoted some new managing directors. Last year, promotions were delayed and happened in July due to COVID. This year, they’re back on schedule, and are up – 116 people made MD at JPMorgan’s corporate and investment bank (CIB) last year; […]
Working long hours as an analyst or associate in an investment bank has long been seen as a rite of passage: today’s senior staff did it when they were juniors, today’s juniors do it now, and when today’s junior staff are senior they’ll expect the same of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
