Athena Capital Research was hit with a $1 million penalty Thursday to settle charges the New York City-based high-frequency trading firm manipulated prices of thousands of Nasdaq-listed stocks...
Global investment banks in Hong Kong are stepping up their hiring of students from local universities, but competition for graduate traineeships is stronger than ever and banks are increasingly selective about who they hire...
You won’t find many people out there that believe interviews are “fun,” particularly in banking or consulting. At best, they are an endurance test that you can derive some joy out of passing...
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him...
Big name managers including so-called "Tiger cubs" Rob Citrone, Philippe Laffont and Chase Coleman, who used to work under veteran hedge fund manager Julian Robertson at Tiger Management, have all fallen into the red as technology stocks have been hard hit...
New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore - The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation's (DTCC) subsidiary Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) intends to submit a rule filing with the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) and an Advance Notice filing to both the SEC and the Federal Reserve to...
What technology should you bone up on if you want a job in an investment bank these days? When we asked this question 18 months ago, the answer was unquestionably Java, which had more than double the number of jobs than its nearest competing programming language...
From 13 till 16 of October 2014 Geneva is hosting UNCTAD World Investment Forum. A lot of key political leaders have already underlined many aspects which the global community should meet in order to provide sustainable development. "There is a strong business case for investing in sustainability...
Germany’s biggest public pension fund plans to invest more in private equity and hedge funds and reduce its bond holdings as low interest rates curb returns...
ZURICH — The Ebola virus is killing 70% of the people who contract the disease, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, and as many as 10,000 new cases a week could be reported by early December...
In the latest hiring roundup, HSBC is recruiting heavily in the UK, JPMorgan is targeting a new region and Nomura pours money into its US investment bank, again. Nomura’s US hiring spree Nomura just hired 15 senior bankers within its investment bank in the Americas...
Ekaterina Lopukhova from Rosa Company have announced that Rosa Desktop Fresh R4 have been released, the latest line-up from "R Series" of Rosa Desktop fresh distribution. As usual, this distribution features KDE desktop environment, which based on KDE 4.13.3 version...
Recently MetaQuotes Software introduced MetaFintech as its new representative office in the UAE. The company now announces its further expansion: Derivative System Technologies will act as its agent in South Africa...
Aside from the brief ‘gold rush’ in 2008, as investment bankers flocked to Dubai to escape the financial crisis sweeping London and New York, the Middle East has struggled to maintain its allure to financial professionals...
If you’re a student and you want to work for Morgan Stanley, you’d better put in an impeccable application. As Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman explained this summer, Morgan Stanley receives 90,000 applications for its summer analyst and associate programmes...
A sleeker design and Intel's Broadwell processors come to Lenovo's convertible Ask most people which is the best Windows laptop on the market today, and the answer you'll get will be near universal: Lenovo's Yoga 2 Pro. From top to bottom, it's perhaps the best convertible notebook you can buy...
Snapchat responded to a reported leak of photos sent through its service, saying it was not a result of a breach of the company’s security. Instead, the company said it was a result of a leak from a third-party application...
The European economy may be limping along, but Americans living there say there are other reasons why they call Europe home — or maison, casa or zuhause. More Americans are moving overseas. The Social Security Administration currently sends 613,650 retirement-benefit payments outside the U.S...
Hedge funds reduced bullish gold wagers just before prices rallied the most since June on concern that global economic growth is weakening. The net-long position in New York futures and options contracted for an eighth week, U.S. government data show...
Forex markets are among the most active trading markets in the world, with participants ranging from large banks, to multinational corporations, to governments, to speculators and even to a small fraction of individual professional traders...
