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  • Could you live off a salary, no bonus?

    We’ve asked this in the past, but given the response to last week’s article on the FSA’s bonus reform plans, it seems worth asking again - is it possible to live off banking salaries as the ...

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  • Too many recruitment cowboys?

    Does the financial services recruitment industry need a shakeout? With recruiters such as Robert Walters posting record profits for the first half of this year, the jobmeisters of this world have b ...

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  • Wanted: someone to stick up for bonuses

    After the fury, the recriminations. Blaming bonuses for the trauma of the past 13 months is nothing new, but the finger pointing is reaching new levels of vigour. Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling ...

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  • CFA vs MBA

    An article on our US site has created a furore over the relative merits of a CFA over an MBA. Here's the potted version. According to the US commentators/ranters, here are the positives for both qu ...

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  • Why are bonuses still necessary?

    Contrary to expectation, it seems a comfortable majority of people are still receiving bonuses this year. We ran a poll enquiring about bonuses a couple of weeks ago (ie. before European banks a ...

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  • Are you feeling persecuted yet?

    We’ve told you what we think about the imposition of a windfall tax on bonuses. Now we’d like to know how you feel. As Alistair Darling pointed out today, more than half ...

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  • Is banking a blot on your CV?

    If you left university and achieved a position in investment banking, you were probably towards the top of your class. You are probably highly driven. You are probably accustomed to the company of sim ...

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  • French banks for the French, German banks for the Germans?

    Dresdner Kleinwort's in trouble for allegedly favouring German-speaking employees. Are other banks open to similar accusations? Australian banker Malcolm Perry is taking Dresdner K to court for wha ...

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  • Back office left behind on bonuses

    Bonuses for juniors in front-office roles look set to soar higher than ever this year. Shame the same can't be said for operations. "It's still early days, but the figures we're seeing suggest bonu ...

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  • The wonders of working for UBS

    It’s lost a packet on dodgy trades, ‘shaken up’ its prop trading division, and plans to pay high stock bonuses. Who wants to work there? Lots of people, according to everything we’ve ever written o ...

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  • No breeders, thank you

    Rumour has it there's a new name for female bankers of child-bearing age. According to one headhunter (who steadfastly refuses to go on the record), at least one of his clients specifies that candi ...

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  • How important is a highly attractive, high functioning spouse?

    Following the eulogy to the fragrant Diane Jenkins in the weekend Telegraph, it’s worth revisiting the contribution that Diane has allegedly made to the career of husband Roger Jenkins

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  • Why are there so many rogue traders in France?

    Is it coincidence that two out of the four major rogue trading incidents of the past year have occurred at French banks? First there was SocGen’s €4.9bn hit following an alleged €50bn of futu ...

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  • Are young reckless males being unfairly blamed for the mess?

    Ever since someone discovered that testosterone fuels traders on the way up and cortisol sucks the life out of them on the way down, it’s been fashionable to blame the financial crisis on m ...

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  • Time to take the Tube?

    Deutsche Bankers are taking the Tube and cutting back on strippers. Bankers of America are skipping the soap. Where will it all end? How far can banks cut costs before being a banker loses it ...

    28 comments

  • How bad is it at UBS?

    UBS is making 1,500 redundancies. Is it better to jump before you’re pushed? The Swiss bank has come a cropper after finding itself ‘clearly overweight in the US sub-prime market’, and is swiftly c ...

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  • Should London be more like Dubai?

    OK, the City will never have beaches, weeks of uninterrupted sunshine or temperatures in excess of 40 degrees, but it could probably muster up lenient tax regulations for overseas bankers. Is this wha ...

    26 comments

  • The Facebook phenomenon

    Putting yourself about on social networking sites? Make sure you don't get egg on your face. Oxford University is not the only place using social networking sites to check up on people. Research by ...

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  • Letting rip against recruiters

    Our article about nefarious recruitment practices provoked a tirade of responses. Didn't get a chance to read it last time? Here it is again, with another chance to have your say. With hiring buoya ...

    26 comments

  • Is 35 past it?

    Thanks to age discrimination legislation, banks are said to be hiring older bankers with all the zeal of teenagers purchasing alco-pops. Is this really true? A study by financial services recruiter ...

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