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Would you be a banker if most of your pay was at risk for three to five years rather than a maximum of one year? UBS just decided to make itself the test case for overhauling incentive pay. Its ne ...

Now that it's that time of year again when you used to salivate about getting paid… is your biggest year-end purchase going to be a tighter belt? Whether on Wall Street or the City, government honc ...

Credit Suisse has unveiled plans to double staff numbers in India and isn’t the only bank upping staff numbers in the region - Swiss rival UBS is also looking to double its Indian headcount and the li ...

Are investment banks really wielding the knife in as measured a manner as official data indicates? We've often discussed the disconnect between numbers stated in Wall Street layoff announcements, a ...

The GCC is increasingly being viewed as a safe haven and a hub of opportunity for international investment firms, but could the bankers flocking to the region be twiddling their thumbs for the time be ...

Too much experience can be a career-killer, especially in today's hyper-competitive job market. So is it legitimate to delete your first job or three, in hopes of erasing some telltale age-lines from ...

Many a pundit has ascribed the economy's erstwhile run-up to enthusiastic consumer spending - and the recent downturn to the U.S. consumer's over-reliance on debt, particularly creative sub-prime mort ...

Salaries might be on an upward trajectory, but a flailing dollar and spiralling cost of living means life is expensive for many bankers, particularly at a junior level. Job-hopping and a scarc ...

Forget ‘Shanghai, Dubai, or goodbye’. Is a move to an emerging market really a one-way bet for your career? Banks are busy transferring as many staff as possible away from the stagnant centres ...

Not too long ago, an expat posting was a shortcut to long lunches, cheap domestic service and subsidised school fees. But now that the likes of Dubai, Singapore and Shanghai are the new golden ...