2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (242+ words) Qube Research and Technologies (QRT) has been diversifying. When it spun out of Credit Suisse in 2018, it was focused on systematic equities. Since then, it's moved into fundamental equities under Stephen Irvine, commodities under Naveen Arora, and catastrophe bonds under…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (234+ words) Electronic trading firm DRW has had some troubles in the commodities markets in 2026. The FT reported in June that the firm lost $176m in Q1 of this year as a result of market volatility; several top traders have left over the course…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (314+ words) There was a time when if you were a technology investment banker, you specialised in technology, broadly defined. That time has long passed. As technology has taken over everything, technology bankers have fragmented. They are now specialised in all manner…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (144+ words) When we revealed this week that Jon Stead, the head of high yield trading at Morgan Stanley, had resigned from the bank, we suggested that he might be joining hedge fund Point72. We were wrong. Stead will instead be joining hedge…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (455+ words) When you work for Goldman Sachs, appraisals are a big deal. It is the appraisal that will determine your bonus. It is the appraisal that will determine your eligibility for promotion. It is also the appraisal that will determine whether…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (324+ words) As we predicted last week, Citi is making cuts to its data team. It's not clear how many cuts it's making or which particular data teams are affected, but there are suggestions that in some teams they may be substantial....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (378+ words) Q2 reporting season for the world’s banks is almost over. After a monster day today in which Deutsche Bank, UBS, Standard Chartered, and Nomura (among others) reported, a picture is starting to emerge: there are some banks that did mighty fine....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (167+ words) As you will know if you pay careful attention to eFinancialCareers, macro hiring in Singapore is in a state of high excitement. Various banks have been losing people. They include Nomura. The latest Nomura exit is understood to be Agrim…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (635+ words) Fergus Neve is an oil & gas analyst at Rothschild & Co Redburn, where he covers European oil & gas supermajors from London. Fergus joined Rothschild & Co Redburn two years ago from an audit role at Big Four firm KPMG. This is a…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (205+ words) As we have said, the Singapore macro hiring market is full of people jumping around. Some are jumping from Morgan Stanley's much depleted Asian macro business. Some are jumping from Goldman Sachs's. The latest to leave Goldman is Yvette Lim,…...