Young people in banking who find themselves looking for a job in 2023 are in for a shock. Anyone who came into the industry in the past two years has no idea what a down market looks like. I’ve experienced […]
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Chinese bankers are losing their jobs as banks reverse growth strategies
China is taking a beating from investment banking job cuts as firms reduce headcount in the Asia-Pacific region. Credit Suisse has become the latest bank to cut heavily, with around 20 China-focused bankers understood to be losing their jobs, according […]
The most precarious jobs at HSBC now
It’s HSBC results day and more than two years into the bank’s program of 35,000 job cuts there are signs that the pace of extraction has slowed but that all the previous cuts at the bank were a fine idea. While […]
Summer interns are disguising banks’ job cuts
Given the collapse in revenues across M&A, and equity and debt capital markets this year compared to last, the general expectation is there will be job cuts. They might not be big job cuts – David Solomon at Goldman Sachs said yesterday […]
A Hong Kong hedge fund is on a massive hiring spree
A Hong Kong-headquartered hedge fund is on the lookout for fresh local talent and is also plotting global expansion. Infini, a multi-strategy head fund, is looking to hire at least ten portfolio managers in Hong Kong and has recruited a […]
Hedge fund Millennium’s hiring revealed in investor letter
Millennium, the multi-strategy hedge fund run by Izzy Englander, is still on a hiring drive. The fund’s recent investor letter, issued in February 2022 but with many details unreported until now, reveals that last year was another year of growth. […]
JPMorgan’s developers would now like another pay rise
As pressure for salary increases rises in conjunction with inflation, one cluster of banking employees is shaking the stick for another pay rise with more rambunctiousness than the rest: mid-ranking developers at JPMorgan think they’re due a little extra. “We […]
Senior bankers’ WFH “rebirth” cut short by needy juniors
As anyone with experience of the hedge fund industry will tell you, one of the biggest signs of impending trouble for a portfolio manager is “thesis drift” – the phenomenon where the investments stay the same, but the reason for […]
“Banks are desperate. There’s a shortage of talented people”
Where is the pent-up hiring demand in the front office of investment banks after the first quarter of 2022? If you’ve been paying attention it will come as little surprise that the activity is mostly on rates and FX desks. […]
Les femmes dans le secteur bancaire : « les hommes raflent tous les meilleurs postes »
Je travaille depuis 20 ans sur les marchés en banque d’investissement, essentiellement en Europe. Je dispose d’une excellente connaissance produits, j’ai une solide liste de clients, et toutes les preuves pour démontrer ma capacité renouvelée à générer des bénéfices. En […]