If you’re an investment banking analyst who’s looking for a job in private equity, ZZ Capital is still hiring. The Hong Kong-based investment firm just recruited Nico Haller from Citi for its London office. Haller was a second year analyst in healthcare M&A at Citi, having joined the bank in March 2015 after graduating from LMU in Munich. He’s the […]

The shake-up within Citi’s equities team continues. It’s just promoted Antonin Jullier, formerly head of equity trading strategy, to lead its equities sales team. Jullier, who has been with Citi for over seven years having joined from Talaris Capital in 2008, has just been promoted to global head of equities sales, based in London. He was formerly the high-profile head […]

When banks announced bonuses at Christmas, any extra staff were dismissed in December. Now that bonuses are announced in January, surplus staff are dismissed early in the New Year. Now is the time when the pink slips fly. Last week, Morgan Stanley became the first bank to pull the trigger on 2017 pre-bonus layoffs. Bloomberg reports that the U.S. bank […]

Le début d’année est la période de publication des fameuses league tables qui classent les banques conseils qui sont intervenues dans des opérations de fusions acquisitions. Ce qui a le mérite de voir d’un coup d’œil quelles sont les banques qui ont été les plus actives sur l’année écoulée et sont donc susceptibles d’étoffer leurs équipes (analyse, origination, exécution). En […]

If your aspiration in life is to leave an investment bank for a high paying hedge fund, you’re missing a trick. Hedge funds are passé. Hedge fund replication strategies, are not. Goldman Sachs finally launched its hedge fund replicator earlier this month. J.P. Morgan launched one in September. Ahead of the game, Citi has had a hedge fund replication index since 2008, which […]

If you’re a student trying to break into investment banking now, can you be casual about your journey towards your first job? Now that those making the cut are better qualified than ever, laden with internships and impeccable academics, can you take the time to find yourself? Maybe not. But Michael Lavelle, UK and Ireland head of corporate and investment banking […]

Imagine if you’d just left a rival tier one investment bank to join Deutsche. Imagine if the bank you’d left was Citi or Goldman Sachs. And imagine if, in the process of moving to Deutsche you’d had all your deferred stock bonuses from your previous employer converted into Deutsche stock. If you do, you might have a notion how (we suspect) James […]

The average UK financial services bonus last year was £13.4k. Sounds good? Not if you’re a 25 year-old working in M&A or capital markets for a major bank in London. In this case, you’ll already be expecting a bonus of £30k+ ($40k+). So says the new salary and bonus survey from London recruitment firm Dartmouth Partners. If Dartmouth’s right, then during the first ten […]

Beware entryist banks which woo you with fancy job titles and promises of an exciting future, but don’t deliver.  This appears to be the message behind the career peregrinations of David Le Broussois, a former top derivatives trader who’s just joined J.P. Morgan in a risk role. A graduate of the esteemed Ecole Centrale Paris, Le Broussois spent seven years at Citi, […]

With London still reeling from the shock of last week’s referendum, all eyes are on whether banks will transfer jobs to mainland Europe. For the foreseeable future, the answer seems to be no – but this doesn’t mean they’re not quietly strengthening their existing teams on the ground. Take Citigroup, the US bank has just hired Steffen Schmidtke from Bank of […]