One moment that captures how much Britain has changed in the past 50 years was the death on Sunday, January 24, 1965, of perhaps the finest leader in our history. âTonight, our nation mourns the loss of the greatest man any of us have ever known,â the then Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, told the British people that evening. He was referring, of course, to Sir…
Marie Tran (left) and Margaret Delesalle (right) both returned to investment banking after a career break.JPMorganLONDON â The course of a career in investment banking never runs smooth. At the start, it might look like a series of structured transitions from the excel-filled days of the analyst all the way up to the client-heavy dinners of managing directors…
Georgetown University McDonough School of Business hosts the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society induction ceremony on Friday, April 23, 2010, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Leslie E. Kossoff)..Prof. Douglas McCabe.Rev. Bryant Oskvig.Dean George Daly.Peter Crnkovich, Morgan Stanley Investment Banking Division Managing Director.Dean Norean Sharpe.Dean Jett Pihakis.Dean…
The Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) cross-selling fiasco has seen its reputation for conservative banking take a severe blow. The revelation that sham bank accounts and credit cards were created by employees trying to hit sales targets has also hit the share price: Is Wells Fargo a disaster to invest in now? Of course not. The bank remains, in spite of this debacle, one…
Wells Fargoâs foray into oil shows how Wall Street misjudged the risks hidden in an esoteric type of energy financing long thought to be bulletproof. To fuel the growth of its energy desk, the bank targeted some of the least creditworthy borrowers in the shale patch, offsetting the risk by demanding oil and gas as collateral. This type of financing, known as…
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We have a number of exciting internship opportunities across Investment Banking, Global Markets and Corporate Infrastructure. *Fluency in the European language of the regional office is a pre-requisite. The Global Markets internship program in London take place each summer for Analyst interns. The process: Your internship program will consist of two or three…
Kristin Addis, in Namibia.Kristin Addis / Be My Travel MuseIn March 2012, Kristin Addis quit her job as an investment banker in Southern California. Before she left, she d been earning six figures a year, including her commission. However, she remembers, she wasn t happy with her lifestyle. It was hard for me when our paid time off was only 14 days per year,she…
Do you really need to work in the front office of an investment bank? What if youâreâŚ.in the back? Are some jobs in banks really much better than others? If youâre thinking of applying for a graduate job in an investment bank, youâve probably come across the terms, âfront officeâ, âmiddle officeâ and âback officeâ as descriptors for the kinds of jobs banks have…
Scott Schaevitz is co-head of Americas real estate investment banking with Barclays. Prior to joining Barclays in 2008, he served as a Managing Director in the real estate investment banking groups at Lehman Brothers, Wachovia Securities and Prudential Securities. He began his career at E.F. Hutton & Co. Schaevitz received a B.A. from Tufts University…
Poisoned City: Flint and the Specter of Domestic Terrorism Posted on Mar 4, 2016 By Henry A. Giroux / Truthout Nicholas Smale / CC-BY-2.0 This piece first appeared at Truthout. In the current age of free-market frenzy, privatization, commodification and deregulation, Americans are no longer bound by or interested in historical memory, connecting narratives or…
Investment banks are designed to finance or facilitate trade and investment on a large scale. But that s a simplistic view of how investment banks make money. There s a lot more to what they really do. When they work properly, these services make markets more liquid, reduce uncertainty and get rid of inefficiencies by smoothing out spreads. Brokerage and Underwriting…
MUMBAI: An entrepreneur who almost a decade ago ran the popular ambulance service in Mumbai under the â1298â moniker and then launched a start up billed as the Uber of emergency response with pilot projects in Punjab and Dubai has caught the fancy of some of our biggest tech titans and savviest angel investors. After Ratan Tata and Infosys cofounders Kris Gopalakrishnan…
Of the six banks, Citigroup has been most active â primarily through its strategic venture arm Citi Ventures â which has invested in fintech startups ranging from Betterment to Jumio to Square. Goldman Sachs, as weâve previously detailed, has increasingly ventured into fintech startup investing, with thematic investments across payments tech and big data finance…
Capital One Securities, Inc. is a broker dealer providing investment banking, equity research, institutional sales, and equity trading. Founded in 1990 as the energy boutique Southcoast Capital, bought by Hibernia National Bank and finally acquired by Capital One in 2005, we have serviced more than $100B in capital markets transactions, with typical transactions…
If youâre a first year considering a career in investment banking youâre probably aware that employers in this sector offer most of their internships to students in the penultimate year of their degree. However, that doesnât mean that there are no opportunities for you to engage with prospective employers â quite the reverse. Most investment banks hold insight…
Plenty of undergraduate finance majors and Master of Business Administration (MBA) students consider pursuing a career in investment banking or investment management, two intensely competitive fields in the finance industry, after receiving their degrees. According to projections from the University of St. Andrews, investment banks are expected to recruit an…
No, I have not gone crazy and written an article on womenâs fashion. Instead, this is a guest post by . A former bulge bracket investment banking analyst, she has now entered the world of private equity and writes about finance, fashion, and even appropriate at . While thereâs plenty of information on how to dress for success in investment banking, a womenâs…
FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2011 file photo, a magnifying glass is posed over a monitor displaying a Facebook page in Munich. Regulators are examining whether Morgan Stanley, the investment bank that shepherded Facebook through its highly publicized stock offering last week, selectively informed clients of an analysts negative report about the company before the…
Are you underpaid or overpaid in Singapore investment banking? Our compensation table reveals how your salary and bonus stack up. Does your salary stack up? Do you work in M&A or capital markets in Singapore? Are you looking to see how your investment banking salary and bonus stack up to help you decide whether you might be better off at another firm?…
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So letâs say youâre working on an M&A deal between 2 pharmaceutical companies â what would the M&A banker do, and what would the healthcare banker do? Initial Pitch: The healthcare banker would do most of this, including coming up with the right sets of comps and the correct list of potential acquirers. M&A Process: The work here would…
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Evan (not his real name), is a 22-year-old investment banking analyst living and working in New York City. Tell me about yourself. Well, I was born and raised in China and moved to America for high school since an American education was highly regarded. I went to college in New York, decided to major in advertising and marketing, but was quickly drawn to the…
KPMG Corporate Finance: Energy Investment Banking Q2 2016 M&A Newsletter Complex capital needs continue to serve as a catalyst to a large portion of the global energy M&A activity in the second quarter of 2016. As a result, the first half of 2016 experienced several distressed asset sales and consolidation in the industry. Bankruptcies, subsiding…
So you think you can survive the most rigorous investment banking interviews unscathed? Below are four of the most difficult questions (2 technical and 2 behavioral) you may encounter, as well as some sample responses to give you an idea of how to structure a great answer. 1) When should a company issue equity, rather than debt, to fund its operations? If the…
NEW YORK As Wall Street remakes itself on a former rail yard in the far west of Midtown Manhattan, one surprising name is leading the way. Wells Fargo & Co ( WFC.N ), the San Francisco-based lender known for its retail banking business, has picked out space for a trading operation to use as a base for a stealth attack on the investment banking world…
