JP
Sector: Graduates & Internships
Banks tell headhunters to find more female execs, while Nomura, Morgan Stanley, RBS and Citi appoint women to senior roles in Asia
We all know that female bankers at the top of the food chain aren’t all that common. A recent poll in Financial News found that less than 5 per cent of senior executives in investment banks are women. In Asia, however, a string of senior appointments and requests to recruiters to select more women for [...]
How to assemble an English CV if you’re a Japanese banker
Forget interview skills and track records, the first hurdle facing Japanese bankers hoping to land a position at a foreign bank is putting together a compelling English CV. Fortunately, Tokyo’s recruiters have a few pointers that might help make the difference between the CV slush pile and getting a foot in the door. Kevin Naylor, [...]
Nomura’s hiring big in the US, shame about Japan
Business is good for Nomura. The Financial Times reports that Japan’s largest investment bank expects to return to full-year profitability in the year to March for the first time in three years, largely on the back of strong demand for fundraising in Japan. Now the bank has reportedly earmarked $2.5bn for expansion in the U.S., [...]
Notice Regarding Changes to Our Privacy Policy and Transfer of Data
eFinancialCareers is committed to protect your privacy and personal information and has engaged the services of Truste, an independent organization whose mission is to build users’ trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the fair use of information. Truste has reviewed our Web site for compliance with its information and privacy practices and has [...]
Compensation – Going Up?
With both trading profit and underwriting business rebounding in many markets, the newspapers are rife with stories about the return of boom-era paydays. Goldman allocated $11.36 billion for compensation and benefits expense in the first six months of 2009. That figure, which averages $386,000 per employee, stands higher than it did at the halfway mark [...]
Repairing Bank Regulation
The broad dimensions of the Obama administration’s regulatory overhaul set for release this week have been sketched out in media reports. According to The Wall Street Journal, the administration white paper will strengthen the Federal Reserve’s role as primary systemic risk regulator. The administration also reportedly will seek to empower a “council” of regulators (comprising [...]
Stress Tests – Inoculation or Gimmick?
Are the US government’s much-ballyhooed bank stress test results improving transparency, risk management, and therefore building confidence in the ultimate solvency of the system’s largest institutions? Or, are the stress tests a largely political exercise, tantamount to putting a Band-Aid over a gangrenous limb? Will the burst of confidence that the government’s official verdicts on [...]
Taking the Alpha Out of Finance
Would the world be better off if most financiers weren’t such alpha types? Do we really need our bankers to be among the smartest, best-educated people around? Or, would society as a whole make out just fine – even be served better – if the finance sector were populated by and large by run-of-the-mill individuals? [...]
What’s in store for graduates?
Banking jobs may have taken a hit in the current economic malaise, but banks in Tokyo are still on the hunt for able graduates. Barclays Capital in Tokyo is one office where graduate recruitment remains steady, with headcounts unchanged since the year started, according to Noreen Dooner, Barclays’ head of campus recruitment for Japan. For [...]
Would you take a passage to India?
Credit Suisse has unveiled plans to double staff numbers in India and isn’t the only bank upping staff numbers in the region – Swiss rival UBS is also looking to double its Indian headcount and the likes of Merrill Lynch and Citi are also building their business on the subcontinent. M&A deals in India are [...]
Follow eFinancialCareers
What is RSS?
Advice
