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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 ...

You snooze, you win – so says David Einhorn, the maverick head of US hedge fund Greenlight Capital. Einhorn is emerging as the world’s most notorious hedgie, after his recent lambasting of Leh ...

As our research shows, the Middle East is strewn with examples of high-powered women who’ve climbed the career ladder. There’s Nahed Taher, co-founder of Gulf One in Saudi; Maha al-Ghunaim ...

They’ve lost tens of billions of pounds pouring money into the likes of UBS, Citigroup and Merrill Lynch, and they’re still back for more. Barclays is said to be close to raising £4bn from un ...

Terrorists have so far largely left the United Arab Emirates alone, but this may be about to change. The British Government has shattered the perception that the region is immune to terrorism ...

Yes there are jobs, but Dubai is also expensive and offers a lower standard of living than financial centres in Europe and the US. Is the Emirate therefore really the best place to be situated? ...

Fuld has ditched his CFO and COO, but should he himself follow in the footsteps of Stan O’Neal, Chuck Prince, Marcel Ospel, Mark Litzler and Wachovia’s Ken Thompson? At the very least, Di ...

The Financial Times says Alastair Darling and Mervyn King are at odds over who should be the next deputy governor of the Bank of England. Darling’s said to want someone with a Cit ...

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 ...

Is the world’s love affair with Macquarie Group about to come to a bitter and twisted end? The pin-up boy of Aussie finance, which is currently on a hiring spree in the US and Europe, seems t ...

As banks scrabble to meet their Emiratisation targets, wages for UAE nationals are going through the roof. Is this really fair? Inside the cosy freezone of the Dubai International Financial Centre, ...

If Meredith Whitney’s right, Citi’s going to the dogs no matter how hard Vikram Pandit tries to bed it down amongst the roses. Whitney says Pandit faces an “impossible feat” in turning Ci ...

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 ...

There’s no shortage of Western bankers in Dubai. But culturally, are Arabs and Westerners planets apart? Maybe – Kwintessential, a consultancy which specializes in such things, says Arabs ten ...

Are more women in the Gulf breaking into top-level positions in financial services, or is it still a male-dominated industry? Figures from the US Equal Opportunity Commission paint a cosmopolit ...

While the rest of the world talks of cutbacks and caution, the Middle East seems to be going full steam ahead with expansion. Is this really true? There’s blood on the street in London and New Y ...

Elsewhere in the world, bankers over the age of 35 might be considered past it, but could they find a happy home in the Middle East? Latest figures from UK financial services recruiters Joslin Rowe ...

With the bloodbath in western markets, many bankers are being redeployed to the Gulf. Should they be holding their heads or grasping the nettle? As all about them lose their head(counts) in the W ...