Remember all those trading jobs Barclays was advertising in Frankfurt in August? Three months later, some have yet to be filled. The bank appears to be struggling to fill rates trading and macro risk roles in particular, although its Frankfurt credit jobs are no longer listed on its own jobs site. Speaking off the record, one local Frankfurt headhunter said Barclays didn't appear to have appointed many people in the German city. A London fixed income headhunter, also speaking on condition of...

As Brexit approaches, banks are discovering a potential advantage to moving sales and trading jobs away from London: the flexibility to locate jobs wherever the best candidates are to be found in Europe. Standard Chartered is a case in point. The UK-based emerging markets-focused bank has begun advertising senior fixed income sales jobs that can be located in either Paris or Frankfurt, depending upon where, "the best talent," is to be found. Get the latest career advice and insight from...

If you’re a junior in an investment banking division (IBD), you probably want to quit your banking job and work in private equity. This applies equally to bankers on Wall Street and in London as it does to bankers in Frankfurt and Paris. Beware, however: in Germany, banking headhunters say that an increasing number of analysts and associates who leave for the greener grass of private equity are finding that the buy-side isn’t what they were expecting. “I get more and more calls from young...