In the latest hiring roundup, Millennium is building a commodities team, Credit Suisse looks to grow in M&A and credit financing and new hedge funds popping up in London. Millennium hiring commodities traders Millennium Management is adding to its newly created commodities trading team...
A Masters in Finance course, while not a prerequisite, appears to come in handy when applying for a graduate job in investment banking...
You want to work in a high-paying, client-facing ‘front office’ job in an investment bank. So, should you go for a job in mergers and acquisitions M&A, or for a job in sales and trading? How can you tell which will best suit your skills and personality...
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Italian market watchdog Consob on Monday imposed a temporary short-selling ban on shares of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena Spa BMPS, -20.30% as they sank 20% on the Milan stock exchange...
Investment banks shipping their back office jobs into lower cost destinations in the UK outside of London is nothing new, but pace of expansion has increased dramatically over the past two years and firms are struggling to hire...
oing into the holiday season, hackers are ramping up their efforts to attack retailers and other businesses with point-of-sale malware. BackOff, which is one of the most effective strands of PoS malware and is undetectable by most anti-virus software, saw a huge spike in the third quarter...
ROME--Nine Italian banks failed European regulators' financial-health checks, the biggest concentration of troubled banks in the European Central Bank's stress tests. A total of 25 eurozone banks flunked the tests, facing a cumulative capital shortfall of EUR24.6 billion ($31.17 billion...
Are you a student who wants to work in finance? Now’s the time for you to hone your pitch. – Banks everywhere are accepting applications (we have a Singapore/Hong Kong deadlines timetable here and a London deadlines timetable here...
UBS might be in the midst of a restructuring to downsize its investment bank (largely through making thousands redundant in its fixed income, currencies and commodities division), but it’s still willing to adopt its ‘grey hair’ recruitment spree to its trading division...
1. New York begins to deal with first Ebola diagnosis "We want to state at the outset, there is no reason for New Yorkers to be alarmed," Mayor Bill de Blasio said after the first New York case of Ebola was diagnosed Thursday...
The pendulum seems to have swung. After 12 months in which investment bankers have ruled the roost and gone about extolling ‘integrated origination verticals’, the investment banking pipeline is looking a bit less pumped than it was...
KCG Europe, the firm that emerged from the tie-up between Knight Capital and high frequency trader Getco last year, has seen through on promises to invest in people to an extent throughout 2014...
Credit Suisse’s third quarter results are out. Inexplicably, the Swiss bank is deferring its full financial release until October 31st, but in the meantime there’s still plenty to go on. Credit Suisse’s current investment banking staff will be pleased to hear that pay is up...
You’ve been searching in Singapore or Hong Kong for a new banking job and you’ve finally found what you think is a perfect fit. You face one big problem, however: your CV is what recruiters like to call “too choppy” because you have changed companies too often in the recent past...
Although the majority of headlines throughout yesterday concentrated on the Chinese GDP figure of 7.3% being slightly higher than the 7...
The Shanghai Money fair exposition has been acting as a catalyst for innovation and change in the Asian region for over 10 years; a unique driver, with a main focus on progress and collaboration reflecting China's emerging economy...
Editor's note: Timothy Stanley is a historian and columnist for Britain's Daily Telegraph. He is the author of the new book "Citizen Hollywood: How the Collaboration Between L.A. and D.C. Revolutionized American Politics." The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author...
After a massive surge in popularity in 2013 and the first half of 2014, bitcoin has been largely absent from the news headlines lately. However, over the past few months, the number of mainstream retailers that accept bitcoin has grown considerably...
Bill Gross appears to be at peace with the next chapter of his career. In Mr. Gross’s first public appearance since his abrupt departure from Pimco last month, he and Janus Capital Group Inc...
