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Ex-Goldman, Barclays and Lloyds MD has just jumped to a fintech firm after 30...
Adam Barrett, the head of institutional sales at Lloyd Banking Group has joined the exodus from banking to fintech. After more than 30 years in investment banking, at UBS, Goldman Sachs and Barclays,...
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Citi analyst confirms the best route into private equity in 2017
If you’re looking for a path into a London private equity job in 2017, there is one track that has been very well beaten: the heavily-stomped route into the private equity arms of Canadian pension...
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Ex-BNP Paribas prop traders have just left their senior roles at Caxton...
Macro hedge fund Caxton Associates might be hiring on the back of a stellar year where its London partners earned an average of £3.7m, but senior staff are still departing. Jean-Luc Alexandre, the...
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London Uber ban: bankers react
Something very bad has happened: Uber has been banned in London. A generation of bankers who got used to having cheap rides in, out, or after work are going to have to make do with black cabs or…...
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Credit Suisse adds Deutsche MD to bolster energy equity research
Credit Suisse is revamping its investment banking division globally, promoting from within and moving senior executives into new roles, as well as bringing in new talent from rivals. The Swiss bank’s...
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A tough message for young bankers: You’re just cannon fodder
If you’ve left university and achieved a job at a top investment bank, you obviously know how to jump through hoops. You clearly got some good grades, went to some kind of big university, did all the...
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Morning Coffee: Ex-Goldman analyst gives horrified ex-colleagues plenty to...
Maybe Goldman Sachs bankers should be used to it. Although CEO Lloyd Blankfein rails against President Trump on Twitter, some former staff are less averse to the lure of contemporary right wing...
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Credit Suisse just hired an MD who was last seen at Haitong
Something seems to be afoot at Credit Suisse. Last week, the Swiss bank quietly parted company with Warwick Palmer, its head of G10 EM/FX spot trading who only worked there 12 months. Now, it’s hired...
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This top Morgan Stanley portfolio manager has just joined this $4bn hedge...
Morgan Stanley’s head of sovereign research in New York, Jens Nystedt, has left the Wall Street firm to return to the hedge fund world. Nystedt joined Morgan Stanley’s investment management division in...
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The new (cheap) universities for getting into J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs
If you want a job at a top investment bank in Europe, you’re probably thinking about attending one of the continent’s top universities for careers in finance – most of which seem to be located in the...
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KKR’s ex-head of private credit: Don’t go into private equity for the glamour
Erik Falk came over to the buy side late in his career. After spending over 16 years working in senior roles at both Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank, he joined private equity giant KKR in 2008 and...
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Point72’s chief technology officer swaps one billionaire boss for another
Point72 Asset Management has just lost its chief technology officer, Chris Corrado, who has worked at the company for the best part of 16 years. Corrado, who was co-chief technology officer at SAC...
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Banking vs. consulting. – Which is really best now?
Investment banking and strategy consulting are like avocados and quinoa: both attract the elite (or, in the words of one ex-McKinsey director, “insecure, deeply left-brain, hyper-intellectual, OCD...
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Four unconventional techniques for getting a portfolio management job
The most common misperception in the investment management industry is that academic credentials are the rite of passage to becoming a portfolio manager. I earned all the top designations and licenses...
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Morning Coffee: The most important finance jobs you never even knew existed....
If you’re contemplating where in the world to situate your finance job, you might have your eye on North America – which is predicted to benefit from Brexit irrespective of the fitfulness of Trump, or...
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Andrea Orcel on the boringness of banking and rehoming staff
Andrea Orcel’s job doesn’t sound very exciting any more. In a Brexit breakfast discussion run by Financial News this morning, he complained that 60% of his job is now consumed by dealing with...
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This hot new private equity firm has been poaching from Goldman Sachs and...
It’s not just hedge funds run by star traders that are attracting recruits from big investment banks. A new private equity fund, set up by two former TPG executives, has been recruiting from Goldman...
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Why this Barclays MD quit banking to go back to the charity he worked for...
Kanna Kunchala spent over 17 years in investment banking, as a managing director at both Goldman Sachs and Barclays investment bank across London and New York, but this was never part of the plan....
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What to ask at European banking interviews now, by Deutsche Bank
We’re approaching the end of year dead-zone for banking interviews involving senior and front office positions, but this doesn’t mean we’re in an interviewing interregnum. Even now, there are graduate...
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Credit Suisse trading head swaps banking for tiny asset manager run by former...
The head of a major trading unit at Credit Suisse in London has just signed up to a small investment manager started by the bank’s former CEO of Asia-Pacific, Osama Abbasi. Benjamin Leung, the head of...
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