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Investment bankers make plenty of money, but it often comes at a price, for the banker and their family. This screenshot, taken by an investment banking source at Barclays, paints this picture with clear strokes. The bank is hosting an upcoming event called “The Nanny Factor,” which will cover the “challenges and benefits” of someone […] ...Read more

So you want to have a banking job? And you want to have a banking job in the so-called ‘front office’, where you will be able to earn lots of money and make calls on the direction of asset prices? Good luck to you. While hundreds of thousands of people work in banking worldwide, the […] ...Read more

When Sergio Ermotti, group chief executive of UBS, participated in a panel discussion at the St. Gallen Symposium in Switzerland recently, he admitted that there might be some colourful characters working for UBS. ““Of course there are going to be some people who are crazy. No matter how well we screen,” he told attendees. Crazy is […] ...Read more

Hipsterism should rank somewhere near the top of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Once you’ve achieved the apartment, the car and the girlfriend, cultural credibility comes next. Bankers want to be hipsters. Hipsters are not always cool about this. “When the Art Car Boot Fair started in 2003, it attracted a kind if huge extended family […] ...Read more

If you want to work a 40 hour week, investment banking is not the place to do it. One junior investment banker got in touch with us via Twitter to say he’s usually done 40 hours by Tuesday – or maybe Wednesday. “I normally hit 40 hours by late on Tuesday,” he claimed – before admitting […] ...Read more

If you want to work in banking but are uncertain as to what the biggest banks look for when they hire, we may have some answers for you. We’ve combed through the eFinancialCareers database to look for the commonest features of people who work or have worked in nine of the biggest banks in the […] ...Read more

Pay is shrinking, promotions are scarcer and the prospect of redundancy has been hanging over the head of many financial professionals for the past two years. In such circumstances it’s understandable that you may have lost your mojo. In fact, bankers have gone from go-getters to adopting the sort of attitude more commonly found in […] ...Read more

If you work in the City of London – and arguably on Wall Street – there is a trick to gaining the immediate respect of your peers. And that is to speak in a certain kind of international accent which underlines your cosmopolitanism. “It’s a kind of louche continental accent with an American twang,” said […] ...Read more

Big banks still can’t make it work in the Middle East, according to Manuel D. Ron, global head of co-development and investment banking at Integration Capital & Trade (ICT) – an international firm that focuses on Saudi Arabia. Ron, a former US army lieutenant who began his career at Citigroup in the 1980s, has worked […] ...Read more

Singapore’s main lifestyle drawcards were once only of the serious sort: good schools, upmarket apartments, excellent public transport, and clean air (at least compared with Hong Kong). These days, however, bankers are finding new, more frivolous, reasons to adore the city-state. Singapore boasts the densest millionaire population in the world – and there are some […] ...Read more