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Nordic banks may be better placed than many of their European contemporaries to implement the new Basel III capital and liquidity reforms thrashed out this week, according to analysts, but in the long run this is unlikely to make a huge amount of difference when it comes to attracting the best risk and compliance talent, suggest recruiters. Meetings this week by key officials in Switzerland reached a broad consensus on the... Read more

Swedbank has risked public wrath by increasing bonuses within its First Securities broker-dealer division in the second quarter of this year, at the same time as the business unit has reported lower half-yearly profits. Staff costs at the bank, including bonuses, rose by 2% to SEK2.423bn in the second three months of the year against Q1 and 6% compared with the same point a year ago, primarily because of “higher variable... Read more

Regardless of the debate around the number of people currently pursuing financial services positions, two things are certain: there are thousands of financial services CVs available on CV databases, and any recruiter advertising a job has to trawl through many hundreds of them every single day. This being so, how can you ensure that your CV isn’t consigned to a life of oblivion? 1) Use key words If you send your CV to... Read more

Unfortunately, our win-an-iPad competition is now closed, with the winner to be announced later this week. In the meantime, here's the final instalment of the real life interview questions you sent through. Previous instalments can be viewed here, and here. Click on the questions below to view the answers and to find out something about the situation they were asked in. All organisations have rules, all markets have rules, and sometimes these... Read more

In case you’re wondering how keen you have to be to work at Goldman Sachs, Alison Mass, an MD and co-head of financial sponsors at Goldman in the US, is here to elucidate. Mass gave the inaugural speech to new arrivals at NYU Stern this year, and divulged just how much she loves her job. First let me state the obvious: I truly love my work. I wake up excited to... Read more

Business volumes at SEB continued to improve in the second quarter of this year, with the bank increasing its credit exposure, private banking and asset management activities, as well as spending more on IT specialists and consultants. Overall, Q2 and half-year figures published today showed the financial woes of the Baltic economies continuing to act as a drag on its figures, but that the picture otherwise was improving. Half-year operating profit before... Read more

The number of dollar millionaires in Sweden is growing faster than almost any other European country, a trend in turn leading to increased demand for private bankers and relationship managers who understand the Nordic market. A report by Merrill Lynch and Cap Gemini has suggested the number of US dollar millionaires in Sweden grew by more than a fifth last year. By the end of 2009 there were 48,300 high net worth... Read more

An MBA is a question of timing: get it wrong and you’ll find yourself spending £40k+ on two years out of the market when pay is peaking; even worse you may then find it impossible to get back in due to a glut of recently redundant experienced analysts. Equally, however, if you’re determined to do an MBA and you put it off for too long waiting for optimal market conditions, you’ll... Read more

A CFA can only be good for your career – right? After all, it’s not easy: only 20% of people make it through all three levels, and as few as 34% of people pass the CFA Level 1. However, even though a CFA is often a good career move, in some situations it simply isn’t. Which situations? Well… 1) When you really want to work in trading The CFA is particularly... Read more

After 20+ years of full time employment (largely with rating agencies), the start-up agency I was working for was suddenly closed in Jan. 2008. Since then, I have gotten some contract work but offers are getting less frequent now. I believe some of the CV issues I have are 1) too much time worked at rating agencies (unfortunately not seen as having relevant commercial experience in many financial services sectors)... Read more

In case you’re wondering how keen you have to be to work at Goldman Sachs, Alison Mass, an MD and co-head of financial sponsors at Goldman in the US, is here to elucidate. Mass gave the inaugural speech to new arrivals at NYU Stern this year, and divulged just how much she loves her job. First let me state the obvious: I truly love my work. I wake up excited to... Read more

The questions asked in investment banking interviews are evidently varied. However, whether you’re interviewing as a rates structurer or an investment banking security guard, you will always be asked this: “Why do you want this job?” And if you give any of the answers below, you are unlikely to get it. 1) I really love this company, I’d really, really love to come and work for you. “You need to be very... Read more

Regardless of the debate around the number of people currently pursuing financial services positions, two things are certain: there are thousands of financial services CVs available on CV databases, and any recruiter advertising a job has to trawl through many hundreds of them every single day. This being so, how can you ensure that your CV isn’t consigned to a life of oblivion? 1) Use key words If you send your CV to... Read more