Tag: Business Development

GUEST COMMENT: Your first year in M&A will be filled with aborted deals

If you’re starting out in M&A, you’re probably excited about all the deals you’ll be working on. Everyone wants deals. Everyone needs deals: you need deal experience for your buy-side interviews and for your CV. The only problem? You’re not going to get any (deal experience). What people don’t tell you is that most M&A [...]

By Mergers & Inquisitions, 11 October 2011 • 4 comments

Techies: should you consider a move to Ireland, Scotland or…Bournemouth?

With more financial services firms ‘nearshoring’ IT functions, the prospect of a move to Ireland, Scotland or even Bournemouth for techies seems like an increasingly inevitable option. But there are still many reasons for sticking with the City. Fidelity Investments has just unveiled plans to create 100 tech jobs in its Dublin and Galway offices [...]

By Paul Clarke, 16 February 2011 • 9 comments

ACA, ACCA or CIMA – which is best if you want to break into investment banking?

Back in the day, it was a sad fact of life that ACAs were given preferential treatment by investment banks recruiting accountants over those armed with competing qualifications, such as the ACCA and CIMA. But has the playing field slowly become more level? The cold, hard facts The employment figures we’ve obtained from the ICAEW, [...]

By Paul Clarke, 27 January 2011 • 5 comments

REVIEW MY CV: I worked in fund management for 16 years, save me from a life of compliance

I am looking for a private client investment manager role – would prefer Scotland but willing to relocate. My last position as an investment manager was made redundant in 2006 and I have been employed in a monitoring role since then. I am a trained investment manager and the current role does not stretch me [...]

By Anonymous, 28 October 2010 • 8 comments

Bye-bye London, hello Belfast, Dublin and Glasgow

Because it’s traditionally been where the jobs (and the money) are, technologists working within investment banks have obviously gravitated towards the City. But, with more development work being ‘nearshored’, is there an argument for moving to a more provincial location? Examples of relatively highly-skilled development work being carried out beyond the confines of the square [...]

By Paul Clarke, 20 August 2010 • 5 comments

REVIEW MY CV: I work in carbon and want to branch out

I’d like stay in the carbon space ( most of my experience has been in origination and structuring- little bit in brokerage and trading)- either in a bank/utility/ trading house/fund. However, I’d also consider something a bit broader in the energy sector, with carbon being just a subset. What are my chances of branching out? [...]

By Anonymous, 17 August 2010 • 5 comments

Corporate banking recruitment heating up

With losses around bad loans shrinking in the first half of this year, there’s a growing sense of expectation that a number of firms are set to increase headcount in their business banking functions in the second half. Lloyds last week posted a profit of 742m in its commercial division in the second quarter (compared [...]

By Paul Clarke, 9 August 2010 • 0 comments

The golden handcuffs for ETF specialists

Goldman Sachs’ recent entrance into the exchange-traded funds market in the US (along with other asset management heavyweights) illustrates the increasing competitiveness of the sector. New players are also setting up shop in Europe, and more established firms are having to pay over the odds to keep hold of their existing talent. “New ETF players [...]

By Paul Clarke, 14 January 2010 • 0 comments

Someone wants to fill five vacancies in the next 3.5 weeks

As part of our ongoing campaign to facilitate the discovery of new jobs before Christmas, we’d like to highlight somewhere which tells us it’s looking for five people before December 25th and is currently only at the CV collecting stage. Celestino Amore, former HSBC trader-turned managing director of London-based IlliquidX, an asset trading platform specialising [...]

By Sarah Butcher, 30 November 2009 • 2 comments

My 750 bonus has been deferred over three years

One consequence of today’s Walker report is that banks will be required to reveal the number of employees on their books who earn more than 1m. According to some estimates, this figure is around 1,000 in the City of London. Cue your average Sun/Daily Mail reader foaming at the mouth, just waiting for another opportunity [...]

By Anonymous, 26 November 2009 • 11 comments