Are the streets of Singapore littered with ex-commodity traders?

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Homepage Jobs News My Profile Register Hello Financial Professional, This week we look at how the over-supply of qualified accountants in Australia means graduates need to look at Asia for jobs, and we explore how banks are turning interns into generalists to make them more flexible.

News Glut of Australian accounting graduates means they need to look to Asia, Europe for jobs Students from Asia are returning in droves to Australian universities, making the country one of the most popular destinations for undergraduates from China and India and providing billions of dollars of revenue, but any hopes they may have of building this into a finance career Down Under are looking less rosy, with experts warning of a glut in accounting graduates in the market. Read more Banks draft in generalist interns to help manage the workload Rotation programmes for interns and graduate employees have become popular again in Australian banks since the global financial crisis, with the four major domestic retail institutions offering exposure to operations across the business, and many of the investment banks rotating staff after scaling back employee numbers in order to manage mandates without staffing up. Read more Where to next for Singapore's hard commodity traders? Regional banks, Asian commodity firms and derivatives operations are mopping up newly unemployed physical commodities traders who have been left without jobs after the big international banks starting exiting the business segment. Read more Upset as Bank of America's head of EMEA rates and currencies disappears just before bonus time Yunho Song, head of the rates and currencies business at Bank of America, is no longer with the bank. Recruiters say Song mysteriously resigned just prior to bonus time. Read more

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