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Here Is The City has just produced the results of it’s recent poll  into the top 30 financial services firms to work for in London.

As you can see below, Nomura tops the list:

Here’s the Top 15:

1. Nomura International

2. Morley Fund Management

3. UBS Investment Bank

4. State Street

5. Credit Suisse

6. Rabo International

7. GAM

8. Bank of America

9. Merrill Lynch

10. Daiwa Securities SMBC Europe

11. Dresdner Kleinwort

12. Citi Group

13. Barclays Capital

14. Goldman Sachs

15. Man Group

To see the full ‘Top 30’ listing, click here

With most banks reporting their half year results, Here Is The City have produced a league table of write downs. The following League Table Of Shame summarises the write downs per employee of more than 30 leading banks.

1. IKB – $14.73bn writedowns / credit losses, 10,315 employees, $1,428,017 per employee

2. Merrill Lynch – $46.8bn, 65,000, $720,000

3. Bayerische Landesbank – $6.75bn, 10,080, $669,642

4. WestLB – $3.1bn, 6,147, $504,311

5. UBS – $41.8bn, 87,000, $480,460 Click here to read the rest…

Over the last few week’s London’s financial markets site “Here In The City” has been running a financial markets job loss league table.

The figures are based on their best ball part numbers based on conversations with banks and press announcements:

Here is their most updated league table below:

Bear Stearns – 7,500 job losses, 14,000 financial markets jobs, 53.5% of the total

Wachovia - 1,200, 3,900, 30.7%

Citi – 7,900, 30,000, 26.3%

Royal Bank of Scotland / ABN AMRO – 7,000, 28,000, 25%

WestLB – 1,530, 6,120, 25%

Fortis / ABN AMRO Asset Management – 490, 2000, 24.5%

Click here to read the rest…

Were you satisfied with your bonus this year?

According to a survey conducted by Here In The City Careers,  just over 50% of respondents were satisfied with their bonus.

The Martin Ward Anderson-sponsored ‘Bonus Satisfaction’ survey breaks down the satisfaction levels across front, middle and back office areas as well highlighting the 20 firms with the highest satisfaction ratings.

Click here to see the full results.