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30 second Financial Market Snapshot for PB, S&T, AM Aspirants
BNP Paribas to acquire Spanish bank Banco Sabadell’s depository unit for 115 million euros ($127.40 million) Goldman Sachs and Morgan...
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30 second Financial Market Snapshot for PB, S&T, AM Aspirants
Global merchandise supply chain manager Li & Fung to get privatised with a HK$7.2 billion offer made by Hong Kong’s Fung family to...
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30 second Financial Market Snapshot - March 26, 2020
1. Financial services hiring slows in HK because of coronavirus and protests, especially for senior management roles. However, demand for...
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How to use “State of Mind” to stand out from an IB final interview?
For a consecutive 7-10 day period before my IB final-round interviews, I performed below to improve my state of mind so I could be a peak...
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How to outperform top students in IB interviews? State of Mind Matters
In the final round, you are only one step away from getting your IB offer. You’ll face competitions from the best candidates from the...
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30 second Financial Market Snapshot
Citigroup is expanding in Hong Kong S&T US lowers interest rate to a range between 1% to 1.25% The potential happening of next financial...
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30 second Financial Market Snapshot - March 13, 2020
Financial services hiring slows in HK because of coronavirus and protests, especially for senior management roles. However, demand for...
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Weekly Market Buzz - March 5, 2020
For all the technical skills he sees in young bankers, he "never hired anyone who did not have a strong interest in financial news and...
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What do investment bankers look for during CV screening?
When investment bank recruiters review a student's CV, they'll spend the first 10 seconds looking for any impressive items- anything...
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How to Secure Offers Despite the COVID-19 Gloom
The pool of available investment banking roles seems to be shrinking with companies being impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak, and...
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How will MIFID II impact APAC operations?
Covering virtually every asset and profession within the EU financial services industry, the MiFID II legislation regulates off-exchange...
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What's the significance of repo and reverse repo in regulating open markets?
The Repo, or Repurchase Rate is the key rate of interest at which a country’s central bank offers short- term lending to banks and...
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Weekly Market Buzz- Feb 26, 2020
PepsiCo buys Chinese snackseller Be & Cheery for $705M, making it their biggest yet acquisition in China Wells Fargo to pay US$3 billion...
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Weekly Market Buzz- Feb 21
HSBC axes 35,000 jobs in a bid to save US$4.5 billion, as 2019 profits tumble China to poised to take over the indebted HNA Group Co and...
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Weekly Market Buzz- Feb 11, 2020
Hedge fund Elliott builds $2.5bn stake in SoftBank Xerox raises its offer to buy HP Inc by $2 to $24 per share, valuing HP at about $35...
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Weekly Market Buzz- Feb 4, 2020
Payments giant Worldline to buy French rival Ingenico in a $8.7 billion deal Cognizant acquires CodeZero consulting to strengthen cloud...
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Weekly Market Buzz- Jan 29, 2020
Credit Agricole announced it’s agreed to buy a majority stake in fintech firm Linxo Group, for an undisclosed sum French energy group...
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Weekly Market Buzz - Jan 21, 2020
BlackRock built 5% stake in ex-Toshiba unit at centre of takeover battle-filing Uber offloads online food-ordering business in India to...
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Weekly Market Buzz - Jan 15, 2020
Visa to buy Plaid for $5.3B- Plaid’s products enable consumers to share their financial information with thousands of apps and services...
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Weekly Market Buzz- Jan 6, 2020
The 2019 M&A activity in APAC excluding Japan dipped to a 5 year low at 10.3% to US$667.8 billion as per Dealogic Xerox has secured $24...
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