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It pays to be in control
Product controllers aren’t exactly the most high-profile people in the banking sector, but they do have something that many front-office hotshots would kill for: comparatively safe jobs. Low-level outsourcing aside, redundancies remain rare in product control (PC), but the hiring market is slow and banks are demanding senior candidates with near-perfect skill sets. “It’s a [...]
Don’t quit if you’re a quant
Quantitative analysts are staying comparatively safe in the current cut-throat world of Aussie banking. And there are also opportunities in the corporate sector. Quants offer pure, unemotional mathematical analysis, which is much needed in these turbulent times. “They are not for the chopping board. They’re not dreading the phone call. Good quants are very good [...]
Japan: 2008 year in review
Good(ish) year Governance-centric roles The middle office was the place to keep safe in ’08. Throughout the year there was a relatively steady demand for bi-lingual financial controllers and internal auditors with capital markets product knowledge, particularly those with the Japanese CPA qualification, says David Swan, director financial services, Robert Walters. “Regulatory orientated positions continued [...]
EDITOR’S TAKE: Nomura and the domino effect
Who would have thought that a bank from jobs-for-life Japan would become the prime player in the high-level game of recruitment musical chairs that is sweeping across Asia? Nomura’s takeover of Lehman Brothers in Asia-Pacific saw it offering jobs to almost all the US firm’s 3,000 staff in the region. While about 2,600 have chosen [...]
Can Dubai or Shanghai really save your career?
Touted as possible sanctuaries from the problems crippling the Western financial system, do the Middle East or Asia really offer ample job opportunities or even any shelter from redundancies? Asia, in particular, might not be a completely safe haven, as both HSBC and Merrill Lynch have announced triple-digit job cuts in recent weeks. Similarly, the [...]
Nomura and Lehman: culture clash or tame takeover?
As Nomura gears up to integrate Lehman Brothers staff across Asia-Pacific, should LB bankers be preparing for a complete change in their working culture, or even jumping ship in fear of the takeover? The answer, it seems, is that sitting things out is probably the best bet – life at Nomura may not be so [...]
Asia not immune from Morgan Stanley’s axe
Morgan Stanley bankers who were hoping John Mack would take pity on them again this year are due to be disappointed. And Asia is no safe haven from the global carnage. Last December Mack raided the coffers to stump up a 5% increase in average compensation for 2007 over 2006, but he now appears to [...]
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