Sector: Debt / Fixed Income
Straight Talk: A senior UBS banker explains how to ace interviews and avoid failure during your first days on the job
Lutfey Siddiqi CFA, head of FICC corporate coverage & FX distribution Asia-Pacific gives some sage advice to young bankers. It can be disconcerting for fresh graduates to shift from the heights of academia to the bottom rung of a bank. Apart from a reversal in status, many find the unarticulated rules of the game -expectations [...]
Taking a sabbatical could be a very stupid thing to do
Ah, sabbaticals: Very much coveted by stressed out bankers in Asia, but rarely attempted. Every once in a while, however, there are those like Mark Leahy, formerly from Deutsche Bank’s debt syndication business. This seasoned banker took a two-year break, lived on a vineyard in Australia, made wine, hung out with his family and co-founded [...]
Get set for a fixed-income talent fight
The People’s Bank of China’s recent announcement allowing RMB held offshore to be invested in its domestic bond market is likely to make foreign financial institutions fight for fixed-income professionals who can help them snap up opportunities in this developing market. China’s bond market is still at an early stage of development and its interbank [...]
Dispatches: China to open up bond market
China’s central bank said it will widen overseas access to its domestic bond market as part of a program to promote the use of its yuan currency in international trade. The trial program, announced Tuesday, will allow some yuan held offshore to be invested in China’s interbank bond market, where most government and corporate debt [...]
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