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Around the World: Want a high paying fin-tech job? Move to Edinburgh
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. [Scotland] [...]
Friday’s Headlines: Why Wall Street Needs More Women Traders
Who would make better traders: women or men? According to Time magazine, women make better traders because they: Are more likely to admit mistakes or ignorance. Do their homework. Set specific goals. Approach risks cautiously. And that, says Time, is why Wall Street needs more of them, despite recent news reports about JPMorgan Chase investment chief Ina [...]
Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation Joins the 100,000 Jobs Mission to Hire Veterans
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has become the latest financial services firm to join the 100,000 Jobs Mission, a coalition of major corporations committed to hiring 100,000 American service veterans by 2020. In its announcement today, DTCC said it would proactively recruit veterans via job fairs, military bases, recruitment agencies and online initiatives. [...]
Thursday’s Headlines: Hedge funds are adding compliance staff
Transparency is the buzzword these days at the overwhelming majority of the nation’s hedge funds, according to a story in FIN Alternatives, a daily newsletter about hedge funds and private equity firms. A recent study by KPMG and the Alternative Investment Management Association shows that 98 percent of 100 hedge funds surveyed have hired additional [...]
People News: Moves at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse and LPL
Bank of America/Merrill Lynch hired a team of three investment bankers specializing in the power industry from Credit Suisse. [NY Times] Credit Suisse’s global head of mergers and acquisitions, Boon Sim, is leaving to take a senior position at Temasek, the sovereign wealth fund of Singapore and will be succeeded by Scott Lindsay. [DealBook] LPL [...]
Wednesday’s Headlines: Did getting into Harvard Business School just get easier?
Harvard Business School is reducing by half the required number of essays for candidates as part of the application process, the Wall Street Journal reports. Prospective students used to have to write four essays. Now they only have to write two, 400 words each. The elite business school, however, is adding an extra essay for [...]
Tuesday’s Headlines: Meet the “Harvard Business School of China”
Can’t get into Harvard? You may want to apply to Guanghua School of Management in Beijing. Fortune calls Guanghua School of Management at Peking University one of the best business schools in the world, despite being founded only in 1985. The school has 3,700 students from 50 countries, including the United States, and 110 full-time faculty, [...]
Monday’s Headlines: MBA Class of ’12 Job Outlook? Not bad.
The job forecast for newly minted MBAs? Not so bad, according to Businessweek. This follows a similar report we issued last week on undergraduate business school degrees. The Graduate Management Admission Council today released its 2012 survey of recruiters and companies around the world, which found that 79 percent of companies planned to hire recently [...]
Business and accounting degrees still in demand as job front for grads improves
The news on the job front for the latest crop of college graduates is better than last year but still not at the level of the heady pre-recession days. A recent survey of employers by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, an organization that connects campus recruiting and career services professionals, shows that companies [...]
Around the World: Surprise Goldmine of Jobs in South Africa with World Bank
Is an accounting qualification genuinely still a route into front office investment banking? Back in the day, if you failed to get into a front office investment banking job (in this case corporate finance or equity research) as a fresh graduate, you still had options. The best one was to join a Big Four Accounting firm [...]
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