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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. [...]
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 [...]
How to create an amazing CV if you work in market risk
The profile of the market risk professional has seldom been higher, and after teetering on the precipice of a boom for over a year, it seems the mooted recruitment is finally happening. “It’s been a buoyant couple of months for market risk professionals across a wide range of asset classes,” says Priya Mariannie, consultant, banking [...]
GUEST COMMENT: Do investment banks only hire attractive women?
Before we start, I have to declare a conflict in the interest of full disclosure to the extent that I am a woman and I do work in investment banking. However, all false modesty and self abasement aside, I sincerely doubt that I was hired for my looks. I’m perfectly ordinary looking, can scrub up [...]
Risk techies’ new popularity means premium pay packets
Financial institutions’ ongoing need to build and replace risk management computer systems is creating a sustained peak for such IT expertise. As a result, there’s a battle for technical talent and salaries have risen exponentially over the last six months. The world’s top 100 financial companies are set to shell out $100bn on risk activities [...]
Investment banks want interim accountants to keep tabs on costs
In spite of improved performance in the first half of this year, investment banks are still keeping a close eye on costs. The upside of this is that it’s creating an increase in demand for accountants on contract basis. Recruiters tell us that the first quarter of 2009 was a tough time for temporary accountants [...]
Growth Alert: ETFs
Exchange-traded funds have been one of the rare beneficiaries of the global downturn and seen increased investor interest and asset volumes swell in the last year. And, as more firms look to enter the market, there are likely to be job opportunities. In Europe, ETF assets rose from €91bn to €113bn last year, according to [...]
Diary of a trading intern
Week 10: An offer! It’s over! Even after six days of doing nothing at all on a Spanish beach I’m absolutely shattered. It had been five months since I’d enjoyed anything resembling a holiday, and I’ve discovered just how much the internship took out of me. The exhaustion is not (just) down to the work [...]
Time to give risk a backbone from the business
Everyone who’s anyone is on the lookout for senior risk hires. Is now the time to drop a little business blood into the mix? Aside from paying risk managers a lot more money, hiring ex-traders and senior business heads to keep risk in check seems a sure route to increasing the authority of the risk [...]
Guest comment: Breaking out of the bank
Graham Ward, executive coach and former co-head of pan-European equities at Goldman Sachs, explains how he came to quit banking. Between 1988 and 2004 I worked at Goldman Sachs, rising through the ranks to become co-head of the European equities desk. After 19 years in the industry, everything should have been peachy – I co-led [...]
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