Credit & Risk Management

As is often the case in Q4, we saw quite a polarized hiring ecosystem across Credit, Risk and Quant spaces. The buy side was where the overwhelming majority of the hiring activity took place, as large IBs on the sell side became more focused on the 2023 hiring plans. Any sell side hiring in Q4…

INTRODUCTION   It’s been an exceptionally busy start to 2022 on the Credit, Risk and Quant desk at Bruin. It would be no exaggeration to say that, for roles ranging from entry level up to senior manager/VP level, pretty much all of our clients have reached out at some point in the past three months…

INTRODUCTION 2022 is set up to be an extremely busy year for hiring in the Credit, Risk and Quant spaces, with an abundance of Q4 2021 mandates carrying over into the first quarter after the usual December holiday break, and firms drawing up extensive hiring plans to take advantage of some favourable market conditions. Candidate…

INTRODUCTION The third quarter of 2021 has been extremely positive from a hiring perspective in Credit, Risk and Quantitative Analytics. It is no longer accurate to say that we are back to “pre-pandemic” levels of hiring, as what we are seeing in the market in terms of hiring demand definitively exceeds that which existed at…

Market Overview  INTRODUCTION After a frantic start to the year in the Risk job market in Q1, Q2 saw the hiring pace pick up even further, with a quarter-on-quarter increase in job flow of 22% observed by our consultants. A number of contributing factors can be attributed to this rise; firstly an exponential increase in…

Market Overview  INTRODUCTION As the first quarter of 2021 comes to a close, we reflect on what has overall been a very busy hiring market for Risk professionals. With the Brexit deal concluded, and uncertainty around hiring in the context of the global pandemic seemingly now a thing of the past for many firms, January saw a blistering pace set…