If you’re a quant trader or a financial services technologist nowadays, you will probably have heard of Jane Street. You may also want to work there. Many try. Few succeed: the company says only a “small percentage” of applicants are accepted for […]
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Salaries and bonuses at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong: the reality
Not everyone starts a career at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong because of its reputation for paying good salaries and bonuses – there’s the kudos of having the GS logo on your business card to impress clients, friends and family. And there’s […]
Goldman Sachs salaries in Singapore: How much you’ll really earn
Not everyone starts a career at Goldman Sachs in Singapore because of its reputation for paying good salaries and bonuses – there’s the kudos of having the GS logo on your business card to impress clients, friends and family. And there’s the […]
Goldman Sachs gave staff a big pay hike
It’s not easy to get pay right when you’re Goldman Sachs. Pay too much and you’ll be lambasted by ‘vampire squid’-type accusations, particularly at a time when many non-banking households are struggling. Pay too little and you risk losing traders who fancy their chances […]
The truth about salaries and bonuses at Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong
Deutsche Bank has become better known for redundancies rather than recruitment over the past 12 months. After a pause due to the coronavirus, the firm is now pressing ahead with the 18,000 global layoffs that it announced last August. In Asia, however, […]
The truth about salaries at HSBC in Hong Kong
If you had any doubt as to how crucial Hong Kong is to HSBC, take a look at its 2019 annual report. Last year HSBC made $22.2bn in adjusted profit before tax globally – and Hong Kong alone generated $12.1bn. The significance […]
The truth about salaries and bonuses at Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank’s 2019 compensation report is out. For anyone with the bandwith to still be wondering what salaries are bonuses were like on average at Deutsche’s corporate and investment bank for last year, all is now clear. Last year, the overall bonus pool […]
70 % des salariés méconnaissent les soft skills et s’en méfient
Si les cadres et les RH connaissent bien les soft skills, cela ne semble pas être le cas de leurs collaborateurs. 70 % des salariés méconnaissent ainsi les compétences comportementales, et craignent des dérives si elles étaient utilisées pour les […]
Salaries and bonuses at Pimco London: they’re huge
It’s long been known that Pimco is a big payer to its big beasts. After all, Bill Gross didn’t achieve net worth of $1.5bn working at Burger King. However, if you’re a lowly average employee at Pimco you’re going to do pretty well […]
Salaries and bonuses at UBS still look huge compared to rivals. But there’s a catch
UBS has released its compensation report for 2018. We now know exactly how generous the bank has been to its staff, and at first sight it appears to have been very generous indeed. UBS had 675 ‘key risk takers’ in 2018. The bank defines a key […]












