2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (201+ words) Alex Manakyan was at Mizuho, but not for long. After joining Mizuho's Singapore office as head of FX trading in October 2024, he left again in September 2025. He was presumed retired and happily managing his own money. After a year out…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (213+ words) efinancialcareers.com In recent years, AI has come for everyone, threatening to upend the financial order. In previous epochs, however, it was tokenisation that was coming for everyone, threatening to upend the financial order. AI experts are having a field…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (223+ words) eFinancialCareers Two Sigma is looking to grow its London team in 2026; the hedge fund moved into a new office with double the floor space and room for up to 200 people. Accounts for 2025 filed via the UK's Companies House over the…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (453+ words) This is how you'll get an H1B for banking now. Other functions that are popular for H1Bs are quants, risk and compliance staff. Roughly 20% of filings didn't declare any function and simply stated seniority. It's the mid-level staff, particularly vice presidents, who…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (145+ words) No one seems to have noticed GFO-X's move, except may its 62+ employees who presumably are already or will be soon out of jobs. A spokesperson for GFO-X said, ""After careful consideration, GFO-X Group has taken the decision to wind down…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (224+ words) eFinancialCareers It has been over three years since Anne Boden stepped down as CEO of Starling Bank, the digital banking unicorn most recently valued at £4bn ($5.4bn). After an extended period of absence, she now looks to be back in the startup…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (417+ words) Doing a master’s in finance can be great for your career, yes, but there is an alternative, rather less known and generally more popular in Europe – the master’s in management (MiM). In many ways the baby brother of the MBA,…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (455+ words) Giuseppe Paleologo, the head of quant research at Balyasny, is know for his puckish sense of humour and social media musings. He’s now posted a very interesting thread, detailing his experiences in using LLMs (specifically, OpenAI’s Sol and Astra) to…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (71+ words) efinancialcareers.com Vinit Sahni knows a lot about macroeconomic risk. A former managing director (MD) in rates sales, he worked for Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch and Soros, in a career that concluded at Deutsche Bank in 2015. Eleven…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (351+ words) It's a big day for French AI Lab Mistral. It raised €3bn (~$3.5bn), giving it a valuation of roughly $24.4bn. It's the largest ever fundraise by a private European technology company, and will surely lead to a boom in hiring, but Mistral doesn't…...