Hedge fund Brevan Howard is making another round of job cuts, but some of its 1,000 employees are more susceptible to dismissal than others. Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your inbox. Sign up he...
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Tim Gately, the former head of US equities sales at Citi was let go in January . Sources say he's just got a new job, but it's not in equities. Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your inbox. Sign up ...
The programming language Rust has been on the verge of big breakthrough for years now and, in the world of big tech, that breakthrough might be just around the corner. Lars Bergstrom, a director...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/rust-vs-c-plus-plus-financial-services-low-latency
If you're Jane Street, it makes sense to keep hiring. The trading results leaked by the electronic trading firm as it seeks to raise $1.4bn through a bond issue, reveal that it employed 2,631 pe...
Things are not necessarily going well at Peel Hunt, the UK banker to British mid-cap firms. Chief executive Steve Fine has been describing the market as "hollowed out" with no sign of recovery i...
For Credit Suisse’s people who might be staring down the barrel of another round of job cuts from new owner UBS, there's an option to escape purgatory – take a step down the ladder you’ve...
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As the AI talent market continues to heat up, senior employees become easier to hire... but also easier to lose. Goldman Sachs has just brought in a senior AI engineer with hedge fund experience...
UBS is making another round of job cuts, but some people there seem more at risk than others. Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your inbox. Sign up here. Bloomberg reported today that UBS is pr...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/ubs-s-cuts-seem-to-mostly-involve-people-from-credit-suisse
It’s a shame that bankers’ gossipy nature tends to desert them when talking publicly about personnel matters, because it means that some of the most dramatic moments in the industry hardly ev...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/jefferies-clawback-guaranteed-bonus
Most big US banks have now reported their results for the first quarter, and they weren't at all bad. Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your inbox. Sign up here. If you're a candidate looking for...
Alphadyne Capital Management, founded by ex-Goldman Sachs partner Philippe Khuong-Huu, is known for having good culture, management, and being an all-round nice place to work . One of the execut...
If you're wondering which coding language to learn for a software engineering job in banking, Goldman Sachs' CIO Marco Argenti seems to be aligning himself to the people who suggest an advanced ...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/english-as-a-coding-language-llm
Getting into an investment bank is, with a lot of understatement, pretty tough. Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your inbox. Sign up here. More accurately, it’ll be the toughest thing you ever...
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Getting into an investment bank is, with a lot of understatement, pretty tough. Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your inbox. Sign up here. More accurately, it’ll be the toughest thing you ever...
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As fintech funding dries up and opportunities to cash out stock payments grow fewer and further between, joining a publicly traded fintech, or one on the verge of an IPO, is an even more attract...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/zopa-ceo-hits-out-at-unicorn-and-ipo-obsession
US banks may be cutting investment bankers in Hong Kong, but JPMorgan needs a new technology managing director there. Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your inbox. Sign up here. Steve Brooks, ...
Morgan Stanley CEO Ted Pick may be feeling bullish about investment banking revenues globally , but he doesn't seem to feel too positive about Hong Kong and China. Bloomberg is reporting this mo...
There are various things that can make a banking job stressful. - Huge sums of money being at stake, with nobody else to blame if things go wrong. Being dependent on key decisions which you ha...
When Lily-Rose Bury got a job on German bank Berenberg's graduate programme in London in October 2021, she said she was "delighted" and "thankful." Bury joined the bank during COVID after gradu...
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It might be a riskier time to work in fintech, but that hasn't stopped former managing directors (MDs) in banks from moving there. This week, two former JPMorgan MDs have become chief product off...
Morgan Stanley's new CEO Ted Pick has a reputation for fragrant phrasing, and speaking today he used it to strong effect in the bank's investor call to accompany its first quarter results. ...
I am looking for some advice. I graduated two years ago from a top British university and I work in fixed income platform sales for a US investment bank. The job is not what I had expected. Ge...
As Citi extracts 20,000 jobs , people there are leaving. Some of those people are in revenue-generating sales and trading roles, even though the bank says it's mostly about extracting deadweight...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/a-veteran-citi-md-in-new-york-was-rescued-by-a-japanese-bank
Bank of America’s fixed income traders were the darlings of 2023 (if you excuse a tough Q4 ), but the bank’s Q1 results suggest that they might not necessarily repeat that feat in 2024. Get...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/bank-of-america-trading-revenue
Monzo co-founder Jonas Templestein unveiled his new AI startup Nustom last month, which aims to facilitate software development from people without technical backgrounds. Its founding team was ...
It's results season for US banks and after Citi , JPMorgan and Goldman , today we have Bank of America and Morgan Stanley. Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your inbox. Sign up here. As the ch...
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Tristan Knight, the global head of equities trading, prime and clearing technology, is no more. Knight left the bank this month, according to his LinkedIn profile, although sources inform us that...
With the UK decentralizing its regulatory system, there's an opportunity for the decentralized sector of blockchain and crypto to have its new focal point. At the 2024 Innovate Finance Global Su...
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon has always been optimistic that investment banking revenues would come back again. Solomon's past optimism was, however, based upon the premise that the energy tr...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/goldman-sachs-ai-drive-dealmaking
I work for a US investment bank that says it's not making layoffs. Despite this, I have been let go. Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your inbox. Sign up here. The bank says it's lettin...
At the Innovate Finance Global Summit, a panel of CEOs from some of the UKs major fintechs discussed the fintech landscape. While there was much praise for the talent market, there was also an ...
Graham Ambrose is a managing director in Goldman Sachs ' equity franchise sales team in London. As of today, he has also come out as a fitness influencer, although he's been building up to it for...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/graham-ambrose-goldman-sachs-instagram
Fintech stalwart Robinhood is branching out beyond its US base in 2024 as it expands into the UK. At the 2024 Innovate Finance Global Summit, Robinhood UK president Jordan Sinclair has provided...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/robinhood-has-filled-its-london-office-ahead-of-its-uk-launch
Following on from Citi and JPMorgan , Goldman Sachs today announced its first quarter results. They're pretty good. As the chart below shows, Goldman outperformed its rivals in M&A and equities...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/goldman-sachs-results-fewer-people-higher-pay
Running a profitable fintech can be a pretty intensive job, especially in 2024. At today's 2024 Innovate Finance Global Summit, OakNorth CEO Rishi Khosla spoke about how he stays healthy and pr...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/oaknorth-ceo-sleep-working-hours
Running a profitable fintech can be a pretty intensive job, especially in 2024. At today's 2024 Innovate Finance Global Summit, OakNorth CEO Rishi Khosla spoke about how he stays healthy and pr...
The countdown is on at Citigroup. In less than two months' time, Vis Raghavan , whom JPMorgan had only recently promoted as head of its investment bank, is joining Citi as head of all banking. ...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/vis-raghavan-citi-june
Citadel Securities is known for having non-competes longer than the norm; managing director and co-head of technology Joshua Fisher has been subject to one since leaving the firm in March 2022,...
As electronic trading employers go, Jane Street is relatively chill. As we noted recently, it doesn't impose non-competes to prevent its people joining other firms when they leave. In its own wo...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/jane-street-millennium
As we reiterate here often, getting a job at hedge fund Citadel or electronic market making firm Citadel Securities, is hard. Fewer than 1% of people who apply are successful. But there are way...
What kind of person has been eliminated from Citigroup in the 7,000 net job cuts from the bank in the first quarter? 🤔 Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your inbox. Sign up here. It seems ...
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In spite of its broader cuts, Citi has consistently been one of the biggest hirers of technologists over the past year. In its Q1 results today, however, it revealed spending on 'technology/com...
The executive arm of Stripe 's UK division has been going through some big changes. At the start of the year, UK CEO Max Roberts left for tech firm IFS; now, this month, Companies House filings s...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/two-of-stripe-s-uk-ct-os-leave-on-the-same-day
Citi has finished stage one of its 20,000 job cuts and it seems to have been more zealous than planned. Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your inbox. Sign up here. Citi CEO Jane Fraser said tod...
JPMorgan’s Q1 results are out , and while the Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB)’s revenue figures went on a bit of a rollercoaster, one thing was more interesting than any revenue figure: t...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/jpmorgan-headcount-falling
After a disappointing year for technology pay in finance in 2022, it seems that last year marked a return to form. Our salary and bonus report, based on our compensation survey which had 6,000 r...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/engineer-jobs-banking-working-hours-and-pay
After a disappointing year for technology pay in finance in 2022, it seems that last year marked a return to form. Our salary and bonus report, based on our compensation survey which had 6,000 r...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2023/05/engineer-jobs-banking-working-hours-and-pay
As we reported yesterday , there are suspicions that now that Vis Raghavan and Achintya Mangla have left JPMorgan's investment banking business broadly and equity capital markets (ECM) business...
When ChatGPT first came out, a lot of people in the investment banking industry felt that one of the most human and relatable things about it was its tendency to make something up when it didn’...
Citi presumably wanted to keep Matt Fink. Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your inbox. Sign up here. Fink was Citi's New York-based co-head of leveraged credit sales. Citi promoted him to that...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/a-citi-md-who-was-promoted-in-december-found-a-new-job
In the world of banking, AI looks like many to be a harbinger of doom for certain jobs. Across the road, at trading firms like Ken Griffin 's Citadel Securities , the opposite is true. Costas Be...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/ai-quants-citadel-securities
It's not just banks and hedge funds hiring people to work with generative AI. As part of $45bn payments fintech Adyen's US expansion, it has hired a new VP of product to work with the technology ...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/generative-ai-in-fintech-adyen
Vis Raghavan may not have been the most popular person at JPMorgan, but he had his chums there. And now that he's gone to Citi , people at JPMorgan are wondering who might join him. Get Morning...
Women don’t have a square deal in banking , as (hopefully) no one in the industry needs to be told. Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your inbox. Sign up here. Women in banking do, however, hav...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/working-hours-banking-women
The competition in the payments technology space is heating up. While payments teams at fintechs like Wise and Revolut are growing, banks are hiring developers with payments expertise too. Sudd...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/how-to-get-a-job-in-payments-banking-fintech
So, a female banker is losing her job for having an affair with a junior colleague? It's the kind of salacious revelation that grabs attention, but men in banking have affairs with female junior...
Dymon Asia Capital , the Singapore-based hedge fund , was opening a new office in Mumbai last time we checked. It’s been a while, however. Dymon already has offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Toky...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/singapore-hedge-fund-hiring-dymon
There are some things people can say which are presumably meant to sound reassuring but just aren’t. An example familiar to bankers might be “there are no planned redundancies at present” o...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/analyst-jobs-investment-banking-ai
Debt Capital Markets (DCM) has seen better years. Although 2023 was a slightly better year than 2022 per Dealogic, it still was a far cry from the glory days of… Erm, 2021. On the GlobalCa...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/syndicated-loans-dcm-jobs
For a moment, it seemed that Pawan Passi, Morgan Stanley's 40-year-old former head of the syndicate desk, had come unstuck after being charged by the SEC with "fraudulent conduct" relating to hi...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/pawan-passi-morgan-stanley
Commodities traders may have ranked bottom for trading pay by asset class in our recent compensation survey , but this may understate the reality. As commodities trading profits boom, headhunte...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/commodities-trading-jobs-pay
What’s the difference between two investment banks? Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your inbox. Sign up here. If you ask sane people, they’ll talk about work-life balance . If you ask an in...
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A cluster of former Credit Suisse managing directors and directors from a risk management team have reconvened at their own consulting firm instead of joining UBS. Get Morning Coffee ☕ in...
Google alumni have been pretty welcome on the buy-side recently. Hedge funds have been recruiting AI experts and architects , but in high frequency trading , Google's ex-software engineers may ...
APAC’s bankers, on paper, had a pretty flat year for bonuses, our 2024 salary and bonus report showed, but those numbers hide a story of two very different cities. Get Morning Coffee ☕ ...
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Some good things are happening at Citigroup. The first phase of the 20,000 job cuts is over, the share price is primed to soar according to portfolio managers who think hitting the 11-12% return...
Not all traders are paid the same. If you aspire to some of the highest and best paid trading jobs in banks, it's partly about the products you trade. And as our recent salary and bonus survey m...
Forbes Magazine's annual 30 under 30 list is out, and the bulk of the finance section is devoted to fintech entrepreneurs. There are a few people from big financial institutions, however, and on...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/up-and-coming-28-year-olds-jpmorgan
As we noted the other day, Citadel's intention to move to a new Miami office is now nearly two years old, but the relocation of Citadel staff is still in progress. As the firm prepares to have ...
Citi may be cutting jobs, but as we noted yesterday , it also has a few gaps to fill in its London European government bond trading team. It's quietly hired Michele Beretta , Deutsche Bank's priz...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/now-citi-hired-a-senior-rate-trader-from-morgan-stanley
Payments fintech Wise is having a good year: a 15% rise in stock prices since January marks its return to the $10bn club. In its London HQ, it has been busy hiring in technology, and non technol...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/leaving-revolut-for-wise-binance-morgan-stanley
If you're considering which area of the buy-side to move into after your banking career, our 2024 salary and bonus report has some pointers. Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your inbox. Sign up ...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/private-equity-vs-hedge-fund-jobs
JPMorgan is well known as one of the biggest employers of AI talent. In yesterday's annual letter to shareholders, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon explained why. Click here to sign up to our technol...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/jpmorgan-ceo-jamie-dimon-generative-ai
HSBC is hiring new investment bankers . It wants 200 of them, and it's particularly interested in if they're specialists in technology, healthcare or climate technology investment, are based in t...
I spent two decades working on the trading floor of a major US investment bank, and towards the end of that period I was a major cocaine addict. No one knew. Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your...
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Madjid Touabi had a good run at JPMorgan, but now it's over. Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your inbox. Sign up here. Touabi, who had been with JPMorgan since at least 2007 according to the...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/jpmorgan-madjid-touabi
If you're a European government bond (EGB) trader, and you're wondering where to apply your talents, Citi might want to hear from you. Citi has lost at least six EGB traders in the past 18 months...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/citi-european-government-bond-trader
If you’re a first-year university student interested in working in financial services (in an investment bank especially), you should really have just completed a spring week. Get Morning Co...
It’s well known that no one in banking is happy with their pay , no matter how many zeroes you add to the end of their paycheck. But people at some banks were happier than others. Get Mornin...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/pay-satisfaction-banks
It’s well known that no one in banking is happy with their pay , no matter how many zeroes you add to the end of their paycheck. But people at some banks were happier than others. Get Mornin...
Is David Solomon , CEO of Goldman Sachs , paid fairly? It's a question worth asking because when Solomon's pay sparkled 24% higher to $31m following a bonus round in which other Goldman people ...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/david-solomon-pay-goldman-sachs
It's often a feature of financial services careers that you encounter the same people at different employers. Matt Dratch, a macro portfolio manager at hedge fund ExodusPoint worked with Richard...
As Citigroup goes through the process of extracting 20,000 jobs , it's been given a steer by Boston Consulting Group (BCG), whom insiders say has spent the past six months or so examining slides ...
As we explained here a few days ago, it's probably worth taking the CFA Level 1 exams if you're a student hoping to get a job in banking. But be warned, that even if you pass the notoriously di...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/cfa-pass-practical-skills-modules
Getting a job at London digibank Revolut is no easy feat, but it pays to know what to expect before applying. In a recent conference, livestreamed by the fintech , a senior recruitment manager...
The advent of AI has caused a fierce debate over the future of tech jobs in finance . While most of it is around the relevance of coding as a skill, there are a lot of lingering questions over w...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/best-degree-for-hedge-fund-job
If there’s one thing that finance is known for, it’s the extravagant pay packages . If there’s two things that finance is known for, it’s the pay packages – and the grueling work hours....
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If there’s one thing that finance is known for, it’s the extravagant pay packages . If there’s two things that finance is known for, it’s the pay packages – and the grueling work hours....
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/banking-jobs-with-the-best-lifestyle
If there’s one thing that finance is known for, it’s the extravagant pay packages . If there’s two things that finance is known for, it’s the pay packages – and the grueling work hours....
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2021/12/banking-jobs-with-the-best-lifestyle
The older you get, the more money you make. Simple, right? Eh – not really. Our 2024 financial services salary and bonus report offers an interesting insight into the way your compensation c...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/banking-salary-bonus-how-old
Given that the average household income in the UK is £35k ($44k), sympathy for the families of financial services professionals struggling by on £200k is going to be thin on the ground. But acc...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/childcare-costs-london-banker
Given that the average household income in the UK is £35k ($44k), sympathy for the families of financial services professionals struggling by on £200k is going to be thin on the ground. But acc...
Achintya Mangla didn't stay long in New York. After moving from London to JPM's New York headquarters to become global head of equity capital markets in September 2022, the bank today waved him ...
Achintya Mangla didn't stay long in New York. After moving from London to JPM's New York headquarters to become global head of equity capital markets in September 2022, the bank today waved him ...
I worked with Gary Stevenson, the ex-Citigroup trader , YouTube anti-inequality campaigner and author who now claims he was the best trader in the world and who spends his time campaigning for a ...
So, you want to work on the buy-side. Good for you. But so does everyone else. You need to differentiate yourself. Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your inbox. Sign up here. The buy-side is a br...
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So, you want to work on the buy-side. Good for you. But so does everyone else. You need to differentiate yourself. Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your inbox. Sign up here. The buy-side is a br...
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If you thought men being paid more than women in banking is becoming a thing of the past, then today's revelation that the gender pay gap at Goldman Sachs has in fact expanded to its widest level...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/gender-pay-gap-banking
ClearBank, a London payments fintech founded by 'the inventor of e-commerce' Nick Ogden, had a very good 2023; its recently released annual report shows that revenues at the firm almost doubled...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/clearbank-pay-fintech
Citadel Securities' new credit trading business has been looking to banks first and foremost for talent. While those have mostly been sales people, its newest recruit heading up the systematic t...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/jane-street-to-citadel-securities-felix-mcpeake
Both Citi and Barclays may have been seen recently trimming headcount across their investment banks, but Barclays is also hiring. Its new recruits include a Morten Eikebu, who is fresh from a 15 ...
There are a number of reasons why London bankers never got particularly excited about the post Brexit decision to remove the European regulation which capped bonuses at two times basic salary. ...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/barclays-banker-salary
There was a time when the Goldman Sachs dress code allowed for all kinds of micro and macro self-expressions. There was denim , there were colored socks , there were Yeezy trainers. Get Morning...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/goldman-sachs-dress-code
Product manager Lily Joly last worked at 'Meta' when it was still just 'Facebook'. She left in 2018 and has held a number of senior product roles elsewhere, including at Stripe , but has just lef...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/stripe-to-meta-fintech-product
If you're looking for a high-paying data science role in financial services , not all jobs are equal. Hedge funds and trading firms tend to be the best places to work, but is there still poten...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2021/02/the-highest-paying-data-science-jobs-in-finance
If you're looking for a high-paying data science role in financial services , not all jobs are equal. Hedge funds and trading firms tend to be the best places to work, but is there still poten...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/the-highest-paying-data-science-jobs-in-finance
If you wanted to get paid as an investment banker for the past year, some sector teams seem to have been a better bet than others. New research from US recruitment firm Prospect Rock Partners su...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/the-highest-paid-bankers-work-in-these-sector-teams
If you're an investment banker who's been waiting for deals and hiring to revive so that you can find a new job, your time may soon come. Figures from Dealogic indicate that the first quarter of ...
I work in tech for a major European bank. This year it made the 'best' decision for itself: to provide tech employees with a 0% raise in many countries. Click here to sign up to our technology...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/tech-pay-banking-inflation-hybrid-work
Working in finance isn't just about the money. Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your inbox. Sign up here. It mostly is, though. It's hard to convince people to sign up for the grueling working h...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/best-paying-jobs-banking-finance
Bonus day is always a period of high emotions, and sometimes these come out as undignified behaviour . Bad language, slammed doors and even smashed phones are all pretty common responses to a n...
Partners at Goldman Sachs don't always last long, but Kaushik Murali seems to have lasted a shorter time than most. Despite only having been promoted in 2020, sources say he's just resigned. ...
When Ardith Lindsey, the former Citigroup managing director, released her complaint against the bank last year, claiming that an abusive relationship with a senior colleague had left her with PT...
The CFA® program isn’t what it once was. But that doesn’t mean that people aren’t pursuing the CFA charter – and those people are getting younger and younger. Get Morning Coffee ☕...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/doing-cfa-level-i-student
Investment banks may be pruning and shrinking their headcount, but the biggest multistrategy hedge funds are still out there, hiring. Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your inbox. Sign up here. ...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/biggest-multistrategy-hedge-funds
As crypto's prominence resurges and trading volumes are testing the limits of the existing infrastructure, major trading firms are continuing to hire engineers in the space. In London, one of th...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/revolut-crypto-to-hedge-fund-hft
It may not be easy surviving and thriving at a hedge fund , but if you're going to leave a comparatively cosy banking job for a fund, there's one that's supposed to be nicer than others: Veritio...
How long does it take before driving hours into work becomes intolerable, and you return to the city for a stiflingly short commute on public transport? The Financial Times has unearthed various...
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How long does it take before driving hours into work becomes intolerable, and you return to the city for a stiflingly short commute on public transport? The Financial Times has unearthed various...
I am a risk and regulations manager in a private bank. I moved into this job from an investment banking risk position and it is far, far more stressful. Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your inbo...
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With Easter over, today was April Fool's day. If you're at Citi, this seems to mean that you'd better watch out for the pranks played by chief executive, Jane Fraser. The Wall Street Journal ...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/jane-fraser-citi-job-cuts
I've spent the past decade working for a US investment bank that's in the middle of a restructuring program and I was informed last week that I am one of the casualties. Get Morning Coffee ...
Sam Bankman-Fried , former crypto wunderkind and CEO of FTX has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. While that's a long time, it could have been longer: Federal prosecutors had recommended that...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/sam-bankman-fried-prison
The arrival of Credit Suisse people at UBS was a shock, but in some countries it was more of a shock than others. Today's UBS annual report shows that in the Middle East and Africa, headcount a...
When Citi announced the second phase of its managerial job cuts earlier year, there was some incredulity over the fact that instead of actually letting people go, it seemed simply to be rearrangi...
We've noted in the past that experience in the automotive field can be a valuable segue into an engineering role at a hedge fund, but it might be even better if you've worked on self-driving car...
If you want to make money in crypto, there are a few places where earning $400k or more is the norm . They include Coinbase . They also include crypto investment bank Galaxy Digital, which has tu...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/galaxy-digital-pay-compensation
When UBS bankers were informed of their bonuses in February, there was some disgruntlement. "Depending upon where you are in the bank, the pool is down at least 30%," one senior quant lamented....
When it comes to the use of military language in a business context, there are two schools of thought on Wall Street. There’s the Lloyd Blankfein view that it’s a little bit excessive and ...
When it comes to the use of military language in a business context, there are two schools of thought on Wall Street. There’s the Lloyd Blankfein view that it’s a little bit excessive and ...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/jefferies-distressed-debt-team
HSBC may have kept its bankers happy with large bonuses for last year, but it is irking people in other ways. Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your inbox. Sign up here. Some London-based empl...
Working in a bank isn't for everyone, particularly those with an entrepreneurial inclination. Nicole Quinn, a general partner at venture capital (VC) firm Lightspeed Ventures, spoke recently on a...
If you're wondering how best to survive and thrive in banking not only in 2024 but in 2025 and maybe even 2026, then JPMorgan's team of European banking analysts have assembled a series of charts...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/jp-morgan-banking-jobs
Most people who leave their banking careers to found a startup tend to laud the merits of their former industry. One founder who didn't have the hots for banking is Joy Mpofu, who left Morgan St...
Tom Hayes, the ex-UBS and Citi trader who spent five years in some of the UK's most brutal prisons for rigging the LIBOR rate, today lost his appeal. It's a blow to a man who lost both his livel...
UBS has hired Paul Schneider, the former deputy head of research at Exane. Schneider announced today that he's joining the Swiss bank's London office in the possibly less illustrious role of 'res...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/ubs-hired-paul-schneider
UBS has hired Paul Schneider, the former deputy head of research at Exane. Schneider announced today that he's joining the Swiss bank's London office in the possibly less illustrious role of 'res...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/ubs-rescued-the-head-of-research-exane-cut-15-months-ago
Citi is understood to have let go of a trader it hired from JPMorgan in London less than a year ago. Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your inbox. Sign up here. Aditya Singhal spent 13 years at J...
Spotify has been a cult destination for engineers leaving finance. A number of technologists in banks have joined the music streaming platform over the past few years and, after it laid off 17% ...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/leaving-bank-for-spotify-ubs-monzo-fintech
Investment bank restructuring programs are a bit like flu or graduate school – the best thing you can say about them is that it’s nice when they’ve finished. Bankers at Citi will be able t...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/tiina-lee-deutsche-bank
Investment bank restructuring programs are a bit like flu or graduate school – the best thing you can say about them is that it’s nice when they’ve finished. Bankers at Citi will be able t...
Investment bank restructuring programs are a bit like flu or graduate school – the best thing you can say about them is that it’s nice when they’ve finished. Bankers at Citi will be able t...
In the year and a half since Elon Musk unceremoniously cut 50% of jobs at Twitter (now X), we've seen alumni of the firm resurface in a number of places. An exceedingly rare destination has been ...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/citadel-hiring-new-york-twitter
Citi is still in the throes of cutting bankers, but some teams are growing. Spring, its payment solutions team, is expanding its reach in APAC , and Singapore looks to be the focal point. The ...
Life is probably a bit a boring and stressful for Neil Phillips, the 54-year-old former chief investment officer of Glen Point Capital. After being found guilty last October by a Federal Cou...
Life is probably a bit a boring and stressful for Neil Phillips, the 54-year-old former chief investment officer of Glen Point Capital. After being found guilty last October by a Federal Cou...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/neil-phillips-glen-point
As banks cast around for additional costs to cut in the absence of a big rebound in revenues , a particular kind of person is at the top of their chopping lists: the one who was hired at the heig...
If profitability is king among fintechs in 2024, then OakNorth Bank is royalty. In its 2023 annual report, the digibank announced that it had improved on its already impressive profit margins f...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/oaknorth-bank-culture-fintech-london
It's Easter week for Christians and Ramadan for Muslims and Holi for Hindus, but Citigroup has less ethereal things on its collective mind. Having promised to finish the first stage of its 20,000...
The times are not good at Accenture, the professional services firm which last year cut 19,000 jobs and last week trimmed its revenue growth forecasts , prompting an 8% drop in its share price. B...
Citi is in the middle of a major restructuring that will ultimately see 20,000 of global employees disappear. Some of the people it seemingly intends to keep, though, are at the center of complai...
Leaving Goldman Sachs doesn't seem easy. Stephanie Cohen's exit last week seems to have been the result of months of deliberation, during which senior Goldman people tried to beg her to stay. Nab...
2023 was a bad year for Goldman Sachs employees in London. But it could have been worse. Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your inbox. Sign up here. Accounts released today for Goldman Sachs ...
As we noted last week, the signature move for traders in 2024 might not be to leave a bank for a hedge fund , but to go the other way. Ben Hutson did it at Barclays, and now maybe Bhavit Sawjani ...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/bhavit-sawjani-jpmorgan-hedge-fund
Hong Kong has increased the income tax paid by anyone earning over $640k and above to 15%, but compared to Singapore, Hong Kong looks generous. In Singapore, income tax is 15% from $89k and 22% ...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/hong-kong-bankers-want-to-live-in-singapore
Hong Kong has increased the income tax paid by anyone earning over $640k and above to 15%, but compared to Singapore, Hong Kong looks generous. In Singapore, income tax is 15% from $89k and 22% ...
Hopefully, Deutsche Bank paid Alok Modi well last year. Following the disappearance of various members of the European rates trading team, people at the German bank in London are gripped with app...
Ten years ago, Franck Dargent, was flying high. After a 23-year banking career which began in Paris after he graduated from HEC, he was made head of global markets Asia Pacific for Crédit Agrico...
We recently noted that the paths into a hedge fund aren't always identical, and the same is true of paths into high frequency trading (HFT). One recent mover in the space worked their way up fro...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/high-frequency-trading-engineer-video-games-ubs
For 20-something British schoolchildren, "biometric payments" may recall memories of your school's fingerprint scanner in the lunch canteen. The concept is soon to go global, as JPMorgan wants to...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/jpmorgan-biometric-scanning-payments-fintech
Junior bankers are tired again. As we reported this week, working hours are back to unsustainable levels at some banks as managing directors who are rightly paranoid about losing their own jobs e...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/how-to-survive-in-an-investment-bank
Hedge fund Citadel is going all out on Miami. Having relocated some Citadel Securities staff to the Four Seasons Palm Beach during the pandemic, it's since poached the executive chef of the hot...
A number of years ago I used to work for a proprietary trading firm . Overall, I had a negative experience. I was not a trader, but I interacted with them on a daily basis. They were all very p...
Crypto may be making a comeback, but generative AI has usurped both crypto and blockchain as the ultimate technology of the future. Accordingly, Coinbase's head of sales operations and strategy,...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/coinbase-nvidia-crypto-to-generative-ai
Barclays may be cutting costs and talking about the importance of building a securitization business , but it's also scraped some coins together to rehire a trader who left for a hedge fund job ...
Banks in London setting out to tackle their historic propensity to hire too many middle-aged heterosexual white men, and their main method for doing so is the candidate shortlist. Get Morning...
Banks in London setting out to tackle their historic propensity to hire too many middle-aged heterosexual white men, and their main method for doing so is the candidate shortlist. Get Morning...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/shortlists-diversity-banking
Last month, Revolut 's head of corporate communications Michael Bodansky took to the world of podcasting to sing the praises of working under Nik Storonsky & co at Revolut. Shortly after doing s...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/revolut-executive-who-loves-the-boss-is-unexpectedly-leaving
Last year it was Santander and Jefferies . This year, maybe it's going to be HSBC that steps in to hire all the bankers being let go by the likes of Barclays and Citi. Financial News has be...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/hsbc-wants-more-bankers-after-adding-415m-to-the-bonus-pool
The most fundamental strategic decision of them all for an investment bank is in many ways the simplest – are you playing offense or defense? Which is to say, is the underlying assumption dri...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/barclays-cutting-jobs
Last year was not a good year for Goldman Sachs' commodities sales and trading business. The bank itself said revenues there were "significantly lower" than in 2022 and two key people left. - Ed ...
There was a brief period, sometime in late 2021, when the lifestyle of junior investment bankers , long renowned for its arduousness, took a turn for the better. After Goldman Sachs juniors comp...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/junior-banker-working-hours
Life at the fast-growing payments fintech Stripe is a far cry from life at a bank. Matt Esteve experienced this firsthand; he joined Stripe after 13 years working on FX for 'TradFi' companies, ...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/stripe-culture-vs-banking
Ken Griffin, CEO of hedge fund Citadel, may be a very successful hedge fund manager with a reputation for running a tight ship, but he is also a human being who likes to chat about his friends ...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/ken-griffin-citadel-grandmother-teacher
Bitcoin's surging popularity is proving difficult for the top crypto exchanges to handle. Coinbase CEO Bryan Armstrong recently told Bloomberg the fintech needs to invest more in its infrastru...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/coinbase-infrastructure-engineer-jobs
When Deutsche Bank published its annual report last week, it revealed that someone among its 1,218 material risk-takers received an enormous bonus for 2023. Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your in...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/deutsche-bank-s-13m-man-may-not-be-in-singapore
Deloitte might be more inclined to hire-in new partners working in AI than its Big Four contemporaries. In September, it hired one from DBS in Singapore ; last week, it hired another from IBM in...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/big-four-ai-partner-deloitte
Rich Handler , the CEO of Jefferies, has been doing another “ask me anything” on his Instagram story, and one of the questions is particularly interesting. Someone asked, “What are your th...
Rich Handler , the CEO of Jefferies, has been doing another “ask me anything” on his Instagram story, and one of the questions is particularly interesting. Someone asked, “What are your th...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/richard-handler-raising-children
Hedge fund internships are only for top applicants, but some elite internships are more elite than others . At Cubist Systematic Strategies, the algorithmic trading arm of Steve Cohen's hedge fu...
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It's not only banks that offer internships to students, hedge funds do too. But if you want to get a hedge fund internship, then good luck. Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your inbox. Sign up her...
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What does it take to get an engineering job at Citadel in 2024? There are plenty of paths into Ken Griffin's hedge fund, and two of its recent technology hires highlight this. Click here to s...
Deutsche Bank's rates traders have developed itchy feet in London. By our estimation, at least seven senior rates traders have left in the last year, including, most recently, Hemish Shah, who...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/deutsche-bank-s-rates-traders-are-developing-a-nomura-habit
The Wall Street Comptroller has released his annual estimation of the Wall Street bonus pool for 2023 and while it doesn't look entirely pretty it also doesn't look entirely horrible. But it's c...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/banking-bonuses-in-new-york-this-is-why-you-feel-underpaid
If you want to become rich, Citigroup's short term interest rate trading (STIRT) desk is a good place to start. It was here that Gary Stevenson , the Citi trader who retired aged 27 in 2014, wor...
Getting one of Stripe 's coveted and often high-paying jobs is no easy task, and you'll have to impress a lot of people to get in. It won't just be HR and your future-manager you'll be speaking ...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/stripe-job-interview-process
It’s not easy getting a job in fintech in 2024 . Jobs are scarce, and competition is high. In Index Ventures’ new startup guide ‘Scaling Through Chaos ’, Wise CTO Harsh Sinha suggests tha...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/how-to-get-a-software-engineer-job-in-fintech-harsh-sinha
If you're looking to avoid working late nights as an engineer in finance, some banks are better than others. Data from our recent salary and bonus survey suggests that you might want to be at Ba...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/working-hours-tech-jobs-in-finance
If you've got your bonus and you want to leave Goldman Sachs , but you're held back by a sense of trepidation tinged with loyalty, then let Stephanie Cohen be your guide. Cohen has quit. In doing...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/stephanie-cohen-goldman-sachs
Edward Ruff, the Citigroup managing director (MD) accused of shouting at junior bankers who joined on the diversity program, among others, is still on leave and Citi is still declining to commen...
Edward Ruff, the Citigroup managing director (MD) accused of shouting at junior bankers who joined on the diversity program, among others, is still on leave and Citi is still declining to commen...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/edward-ruff-citi-analysts
Many Goldman Sachs MDs leave for hedge funds, but Ray Dalio's Bridgewater Associates is rarely their destination. The fund, which has a somewhat infamous culture, brought Yuriy Podoshev to be a...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/bridgewater-associates-goldman-sachs-md
Citigroup is still chipping away at its program of 20,000 job cuts , but insiders at the bank complain that the timing of the most recent round of cuts wasn't great. Get Morning Coffee ☕�...
It's been a tempestuous time for bankers at Credit Suisse in Paris. First, it became apparent that quite a few of them probably weren't wanted by UBS. Then, there was a pre-Christmas last hurrah ...
Asset management firm Schroders has a new head of enterprise technology in Justin Arbuckle. The veteran London-based technologist has held a number of very senior technology roles in finance, tho...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/schroders-hires-ex-hsbc-tech-md-in-london
I work for a global private equity firm in London, and have undertaken various roles in large private equity-backed portfolio companies. I've experienced firsthand how a private equity firm oper...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/i-work-for-a-big-us-private-equity-firm-i-am-horrified
Last month, Monzo co-founder Jonas Templestein began fundraising for a new startup , leveraging AI for low/no-code web development. The startup, Nustom, has been busy recruiting, and announced ...
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/monzo-coding-skills-extinct-nustom-jonas-templestein
Hedge funds are not immune to cutting staff. Their tendency to "stop" people who make losses above a tolerable level has long been documented, but that's not all. Like banks, they also have peri...