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There are some high paying fin-tech jobs in Edinburgh
Any technologist considering a move from the City to a role in Edinburgh would have previously been doing so for the opportunity to buy a larger flat and greater proximity to the Fringe festival, rather than for career reasons. Now, however, salaries are starting to increase. According to recruitment sources north of the border, a [...]
Up to 2k a day: what insurers are paying for people to lead Solvency II tech projects
Solvency II is the number one concern for European insurance firms. Actuaries working on projects related the regulation are commanding 1,100 a day and now technologists are being recruited at an “unprecedented” rate to deal with new IT problems. With insurance firms scrambling to comply with the capital adequacy regulation by the end of 2012, [...]
GUEST COMMENT: As a reasonably recent graduate, I have been forced to take my career in hand
Last week, I changed jobs for the first time since my graduation. I would like to make it clear that I didn’t necessarily want to switch jobs, but that I was left with no choice. It simply seemed that my previous employer was acting in neither my, nor its, best interest. I started at my [...]
What to do if you want to be one of the people earning more than 1k a day in change management
The new rock-star-media-mogul-big-swingers of the financial services industry are not investment bankers. They are not traders. They are not hedge fund managers. They are change managers. Since 2009, demand for people who can help banks get to grips with the changes they need to make to meet new regulatory demands has gone through the roof. [...]
Citigroup is still recruiting IT integration specialists, and it’s not the only one
In 2009, when various banks were dealing with post-merger technology challenges, integration specialists were hot property. Surely, two years down the line, these roles are done and dusted? Maybe not. Amid its Q2 earnings presentation on Friday, Citigroup revealed that it was still spending lots of money on something called Project Rainbow – a huge [...]
The reasonably lucrative tech roles around CVA trading
We’ve alluded to the hotness of counterparty valuation adjustment (CVA) traders on previous occasions, but banks are also recruiting technologists and quantitative analysts to build and improve trading systems in this area. For the uninitiated, CVA desks are an internal function within most investment banks, which aim to aggregate counterparty risk across the organisation, centralise [...]
Why whittling down trading platforms is good news for IT change managers
Investment banks are looking to whittle down the number of trading platforms they run. In the long term, this might not be great news for technologists working on developing these systems, but the streamlining process is providing a lot of project work for those with change management expertise. Bank of America Merrill Lynch is planning [...]
CV Sins: Seven mistakes that finance techies make
In the first of our CV Sins series, we focus on finance technology and reveal some of the most common resume blunders made by IT professionals. We’ll put other job functions under the microscope in the weeks to come. 1) Avoid being an IT generalist Georgina Parker, associate director, Nicoll Curtin Technology, sees many CVs [...]
Why a lot of banking technologists are actually worse off this year
Much like many other areas of the business, technologists working in investment banking have seen their salaries rise to make up for reduced bonuses. Unfortunately, though, worse than expected bonus payments have meant total compensation is down for many. According to various recruitment sources, technologists working in development or business analyst roles at AVP to [...]
Regulatory tech spend will limit front office hiring this year
The increasing amounts of money banks are being forced to spend on regulatory IT projects is stretching budgets to the extent that they’re both struggling to recruit for front office technology positions and having to divert existing staff towards cost centres. The need to invest in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) technology is a headache [...]
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