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Manage your star performers for future success

Talent-retention strategies geared towards high performers remain a challenge in the world of investment banking...... ...

Career liquidity: As more investment bankers look for jobs outside financial services, what doors can be opened by their skill sets?

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Switch to stability

Regulators and investors continue to demand that banks run their business while reducing the perceived financial and reputational risk of a cyclical investment banking business, writes Karl Franzmann. ...

Spreading the money

Asia’s booming banks are seeking the right talent to drive expansion beyond their home region, writes Darius Musni. ...

Barclays said to start 100 jobs cut in APAC

The U.K.’s second- biggest bank by assets will start 100 jobs cut across its investment-banking and markets businesses. ...

Accent on niche hiring

Investment banks and financial services firms remain cost-conscious, and therefore in 2014 we expect the majority of permanent hiring to be for replacement positions or for specific, niche roles such as front office developers and technical infrastructure support positions, writes Christopher Aukland. ...

Barclays to cut 12,000 jobs, pays bigger bonuses

Barclays said it would axe up to 12,000 jobs this year even as it raised bonuses for investment bankers, prompting fury among politicians and unions who said it had not learned the lessons of the financial crisis. ...

Getting into risk management/compliance

I'm halfway through a boring back-office banking contract role and ideally I'd like to switch to a permanent investment banking position. ...

Heads shaking over cap

The recent implementation of a cap on bonuses paid out to bankers based in the European Union (EU) is expected to reshape - from a talent perspective - the banking sector in Asia, writes Raymond Ma. ...

Flexibility helps boost loyalty and productivity

While the issue of fixed working hours continues to provoke lively debate in Hong Kong, the concept of flexible hours is becoming more appealing to senior managers, writes Chris Davis. ...