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Blankfein explains why Goldman won’t open a trading floor in Salt Lake City
Today is the day of the Goldman Sachs annual general meeting in Salt Lake City. This is the first time the bank has held its AGM in Utah, some 2,000 miles from Wall Street, and it may not be the last. Together with Dallas, Bangalore and Singapore, Salt Lake City has been identified as one […]
Bloated bankers advised to live like Christine Lagarde, Nassim Taleb
If you’re working in banking and are suffering from exhaustion, digestive problems or just general bloating, you may want to take some leaves from the lifestyle manuals of Christine Lagarde and Nassim Taleb. Alice Mackintosh, a nutritional therapist at the Food Doctor Clinic in London, said people working in jobs like banking – where lunch […]
How expat bankers can still succeed in Saudi
Saudi Arabia has long been viewed as a hardship posting for expat financial services professionals, but as opportunities shrink in other Middle East locations the kingdom has continued to offer jobs. However, a new push to recruit local candidates has meant it’s become an uphill struggle for foreigners to move in, but expat expertise is […]
DeRegt’s not alone in fleeing Morgan Stanley. Nomura hiring everywhere
Morgan Stanley’s fixed income business is in a state of upheaval, but anyone thrown off balance at the U.S. bank can seek solace at Nomura, which says it’s hiring fixed income professionals worldwide. In an unusual example of reverse nepotism in financial services, Ken deRegt, the 57 year old head of Morgan Stanley’s fixed income business, […]
Daily Dispatches – Unexpected rise in Singapore’s Q1 GDP
Singapore’s first quarter GDP rose unexpectedly in the first three months of 2013, beating government predictions of a contraction in growth over the period. Better than expected conditions in services and construction have eased pressure on the central bank to adjust monetary policy to boost growth. Nomura is hiring Japan’s largest securities firm plans new hires […]
Ex-bankers advise on spirituality: channel Archangels, avoid alcohol
Investment bankers and God don’t have a great history. Lloyd Blankfein was much maligned after famously claiming to be doing God’s work in a Sunday Times article of 2009. The Bible famously says rich men have as much chance of getting to heaven as camels have of squeezing through the eyes of needles. And more […]
Quants and techies get social, autistic hires fall by the wayside
Quantitative hedge funds, derivatives desks and the programming teams of investment banks have supposedly long provided happy homes to people with autism, which are able to put their systematic mindsets to good use. However, the announcement from SAP that it intends to hire 640 people with autism to programme and test its products highlights an […]
Meet the ex-head of UBS credit trading prowling for the next Tumblr
Until March 2013, Damien Regent was a fairly typical investment banker. Up at dawn, he worked 12 hour days as UBS’s co-head of financial credit trading in London. Two months ago, all that changed. Unleashed from UBS following the bank’s decision to pull back from fixed income, Regent has reinvented himself as an angel investor. […]
Stressed out bankers are underpaid and overworked
Shrinking pay packets are the primary sources of stress in the banking sector as financial professionals face longer hours and unachievable deadlines without the prospect of a big bonus at the end of it all. An average of 68% of the 3,400 banking professionals in the UK, US, Middle East, France and Germany responding to […]
Daily Dispatches – steep trade deficit rise in Japan
Japan’s trade deficit rose sharply in April, compared to the same time last year, soaring 70% to $8.58 billion. The is the tenth consecutive increase in the deficit, fuelled by the decline of the yen against the US dollar pushing up the cost of imported commodities. Trade data is one of the market’s litmus tests […]
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