J.P. Morgan only lets a fraction of graduates applying for a role in its corporate and investment bank through the door. Only 2% of applicants make it into a front office positions and the numbers fighting for place on its summer internship programme – the most obvious route into a full-time role – were up by 50% this year compared […]

When Goldman Sachs announced its new managing directors last month, there were plenty of technologists on the list. However, the Goldman technology staff who didn’t make the MD cut won’t be that cut up: they have other things to aspire to. While most people in banks can simply climb the established analyst-associate-VP-director-managing director hierarchy, technologists in investment banks can aspire […]

It is a well-known fact that many large technology companies use complex multinational corporate structures in order to transfer their profits to low-taxation territories, ultimately resulting in a loss to the public purse. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this circumstance affects not only the environment of large companies in the technology sector, but also all those companies—large-, small-, or medium-sized—operating in the digital […]

Jamie Dimon said that he never wanted to be an investment banker or a trader, he just wanted to “see a large corporation from the inside”. This, he says, is why he turned down offers from Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley to work alongside Sandy Weill at American Express. Nonetheless, financial services – and large banks – are still […]

Les deux pays planchent depuis plusieurs mois sur des bitcoins “améliorés”. Comprendre : une monnaie digitale moins ouverte et plus contrôlée. Quand l’Estonie a évoqué l’idée de créer sa propre crypto-monnaie l’été dernier, le sang de la Banque centrale européenne (BCE) n’a fait qu’un tour. “Aucun Etat membre ne peut introduire sa propre crypto-monnaie. La monnaie de la zone euro […]

Imaginez un nuage informatique décentralisé dans lequel chacun aurait la possibilité d’acheter et vendre de la ressource machine. Plusieurs start-up planchent sur ce concept pas si futuriste que ça. Est-il possible qu’un jour apparaisse une bourse du cloud computing ? A savoir un marché financier, matérialisé par une ou plusieurs plateformes, via lequel entreprises et particuliers auraient la possibilité d’acheter et […]

La blockchain fait partie des technologies à surveiller dans les années à venir. Elle pourrait révolutionner plusieurs secteurs de l’économie, à commencer par la banque et l’assurance. BNP Paribas et le cabinet EY ont mis en place un pilote de blockchain privée pour améliorer le fonctionnement de la trésorerie interne de la banque française.  Le projet, qui est testé sur des transactions […]

En ces temps de restructuration du secteur bancaire et de plafonnement des bonus, les sociétés de private equity n’ont pas trop de mal à convaincre les jeunes banquiers d’affaires de les rejoindre. Pour preuve, Partech Ventures, spécialisé dans le numérique et les nouvelles technologies, a annoncé cette semaine l’arrivée pour son fonds Partech Growth de Victor Huberson, diplômé de Supelec […]

The former head of fixed income for France at Morgan Stanley, who has been working as an advisor at Natixis as well as running his own cycling start-up for a year, has just re-emerged at a small asset manager. Sebastien Kessas, who worked for 20 years in investment banking across London and France – largely at Morgan Stanley – has […]

If you’re looking for a senior level job on Wall Street, you could do worse than trying Cantor Fitzgerald. Cantor keeps hiring – and at very senior levels. As we reported last month, Cantor hired Greg Dabal from Credit Suisse to join its prime brokerage business in March, but Dabal wasn’t Cantor’s only MD-level hire. It also picked up a raft […]