They are nothing if not consistent. For the second consecutive year, Blackstone ranked as the top private equity firm to work for in our annual Ideal Employer Survey. Respondents rated the company highly in a number of key areas, including compensation, innovation and the access it provides to key players in the industry. To get a better idea of what it's like to work at Blackstone, we spoke to Vik Sawhney, a senior managing director and the COO of the private equity business at the...

ITG, a financial technology firm that provides data analytics and trading algorithms to broker-dealers and asset managers, has made three new hires from J.P. Morgan, and each is based in a different continent. In April, David Fellah joined ITG’s London office as the global head of quantitative execution analytics. Most recently, he had worked as a quantitative researcher at J.P. Morgan for eight years. Fellah previously worked at ITG from 1999 to 2004 as a trading strategist. In March, ITG...

Moving from management consulting to investment banking – or vice versa – is a well-trodden career path, and now both consultants and bankers are entering the financial technology space in droves. However, Don Henderson made that move 25 years ago before it was the thing to do. Henderson joined McKinsey fresh after graduating from Rutgers with a double B.A. in economics and computer science. He said he had idea what it meant to work for McKinsey, but he rose to project manager over four...

Sabrina Gagliotta has just been hired as the senior vice president of sales at Thesys Technologies, a capital markets fintech firm previously known as Tradeworx. It rebranded in January after spinning out its trading business as Blueshift Asset Management, which is led by Mani Mahjouri, the former chief investment officer of Tradeworx. Gagliotta started her career as an equity trader at Schwab Soundview Capital Markets before joining Bloomberg in 2005. She rose up the ranks to become the head...

There is a sought-after type of candidate that banks, buy-side firms and fintech companies are competing to attract. And yes, it does relate to a niche within data science and artificial intelligence (AI): natural-language processing (NLP). AI consists of machines that demonstrate intelligence resembling that of humans applied to pattern-recognition and decision-making, of which machine learning (ML), deep learning and NLP are overlapping subfields. Tejas Shastry, is a vice president of data...