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Q&A: From senior banker to owner of an aesthetic clinic in London, former Russian banker Anna Saprykina explains her career path
Anna Saprykina is a self-made woman. From provincial Russia, she moved Moscow and started out as a personal assistant ten years ago. From there, she became Head of Credit of Structured Trade Finance at one of the major banks in the UK before opening her own business, and aesthetic clinic Body Silk and attracting an [...]
Yes, Renaissance Capital is making redundancies
A few weeks’ ago, we speculated that Renaissance Capital might have over-expanded and would be making redundancies. Now it appears that this is indeed the case. Citing, “two people familiar with the matter,” Bloomberg reported last week that RenCap is getting rid of 15% of its staff, all of whom will be working in investment banking. [...]
Possible bad omen for jobs at Clydesdale?
As we’ve noted before, Scottish staff have come through Clydesdale’s redundancy plans remarkable unscathed. Parent company, National Australia Bank, is making 1,400 redundancies at Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank, but only 60 of them are expected to fall in Scotland. Celebrations may be premature, however. Australian banking analysts have been claiming that the problems at Clydesdale [...]
Incidentally, headhunters are warning of impending redundancies in FICC businesses
Now that FICC businesses aren’t going to be a big investment banking growth engine after all this year, it was probably only a matter of time before the oracles of FICC redundancies came out from their caves. And now they’re here. “Any hiring in FICC went very quiet a few weeks ago,” claims the head of one [...]
Hedgefonds Winton eröffnet Niederlassung in Zürich, um vom Schweizer Talentpool zu profitieren
Europas größter computergesteuerter Hedgefonds Winton Capital eröffnet eine Niederlassung in Zürich, um vom Schweizer Talentpool zu profitieren, wie das britische Branchenmedium Financial News jetzt meldete. Das englische Unternehmen verwaltet ein Vermögen von 28 Mrd. US-Dollar auf der Basis algorithmisch gesteuerter An- und Verkaufssignale. Hierfür beschäftigt Winton schon derzeit 110 Wissenschaftler, was rund die Hälfte der [...]
Late Lunchtime Links: Goldman Sachs already has 4,000 back office staff in India and is buying space to accommodate up to 6,000 more
If you work in a back office function for Goldman Sachs, you probably have reason to feel a bit sweaty. Various sources are reporting today that the bank appears to be making provisions to expand its already substantial Indian back office operations. It’s signed a deal for 1.6m square feet of office space, the size [...]
GASTKOMMENTAR: Wo HR und Esoterik aufeinandertreffen oder vom Schwachsinn graphologischer Gutachten
Vor wenigen Jahren habe ich mich um eine Stabstelle bei einem großen deutschen Industrieunternehmen beworben. Über mir gab es gewissermaßen nur noch einen Vorgesetzten und den Firmenpatriarchen höchstpersönlich. Bewerbung und Vorstellungsgespräch liefen zunächst unspektakulär ab. Als ich jedoch in die engere Wahl gezogen wurde, flatterte mir eine Email ins Haus, die mich doch stark an [...]
Here’s who’s hiring now in equities and investment banking in London
It’s not all bad. Financial News points out this morning that there is hiring in London – just not nearly as much as there was in the past, when – for example Commerzbank hired 680 investment bankers in a single year (as boasted by Mehmet Dalman in the Sunday Times last weekend.) This is who we [...]
Are regional Middle East investment banks starting to go global?
It’s no secret that investment banks in the Middle East are having a hard time currently. Headcount has been pared back in the international players as deal activity has dried up, but redundancies have been most prolific within the regional behemoths. A few examples of regional investment banking players that have been forced to roll [...]
Was Arbeitgeber von Ihnen in einem Vorstellungsgespräch wollen
Es handelt sich um das stressreichste Elemente der Jobsuche: das Vorstellungsgespräch. Falls Sie bei Ihren Bemühungen so weit vordringen, dann handelt es sich um die letzte Hürde, die Sie nehmen müssen. Um den Job tatsächlich zu ergattern, dürfte es sehr hilfreich sein zu wissen, was bei dem Tête-à Tête in dem Kopf der Interviewenden tatsächlich [...]
