Tag: trade finance
20% pay increases and multiple offers: maybe you shouldn’t ignore this area of banking any longer
Glamorous? No. Exciting? Perhaps not. But you can’t deny that transaction banking is a buoyant area for recruitment currently. Vacancies have swelled in the past six months, to the point where people with the relevant skill-sets (and there’s not that many of them) are receiving multiple offers and pay rises of up to 20%. Transaction […]
This is where HSBC should be hiring. Elaboration on where Credit Suisse will be firing
HSBC’s results are out. They are good. In a quarter in which profits at Morgan Stanley’s investment bank collapsed year-on-year, profits at HSBC’s global banking and markets division were up 5%. Ok, revenues were down 2%, but that’s a negligible decrease in light of the 9% fall in overall revenues at – say – Goldman Sachs. […]
Q&A: From senior banker to owner of an aesthetic clinic in London, former Russian banker Anna Saprykina explains her career path
Anna Saprykina is a self-made woman. From provincial Russia, she moved Moscow and started out as a personal assistant ten years ago. From there, she became Head of Credit of Structured Trade Finance at one of the major banks in the UK before opening her own business, and aesthetic clinic Body Silk and attracting an […]
This unglamorous area of banking is suddenly looking very exciting
Transaction banking has never been viewed as an especially glamorous facet of the industry, with most young bankers eschewing careers in this area for high-rolling investment banking positions. Now, however, while investment banking headcount is being pared back, transaction banking is quietly booming. Transaction banking encompasses various commercial banking services for corporate clients and financial […]
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