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]]>Thanks for this. I have an interview coming up for a FI FX Sales Associate role at a Swiss bank. I currently work at a UK bank, doing the same role. In terms of why the Swiss bank, do you think the below three reasons suffice (are not too vague):
-Want to learn at a faster pace and working in smaller team will help do that as you have more direct responsibility to cover existing accounts and build relationships with new ones
-I’d like to step out of my comfort zone and do something more challenging in a new environment. The fact that the clients are multifaceted on your team means you can be more entrepreneurial and take ownership of a broad range of accounts where you see growth potential.
-Cross selling capabilities: bank is active in commodities and has a large presence in EM. I’d like to broaden my horizons outside of FX and cross selling the business will provide exposure to different asset classes to expand my knowledge.
You can’t talk about specific deals. The best you can do is talk about specific types of funds or strategies the firm as a whole uses, or recent innovations that set it apart from other AM firms. Or, go back to the firm’s history and talk about how it changed the industry… with TRP, for example, you could talk about how they were one of the earliest AM firms to start investing in private tech startups.
]]>Ideally you will be able to get Capital IQ access from someone else (many universities and business schools also offer it to students). If not, you will have to do Google searches or look up specific, recent deals and see if you can find the banks attached to them (sometimes the official press releases state this).
]]>Where is the best place to find deals the bank has recently been involved in? As I’m struggling to find a website that contains that information.
]]>The approach is the same, talk about anyone you’ve met at the bank, recent deals, recent initiatives you’ve read about in the news, it could be literally anything. The point of this question is to assess whether or not you can do 5 minutes of online research.
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