Articles by Dan Butcher
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How to Know if You’re Right for a Fintech Career
If you're a banker or otherwise involved in the financial industry, at a certain point in your career, you start to wonder whether the grass is greener in the financial technology space (a.k.a. "fintech"). A fo… -
Take Care Before Plunging into the World of Fintech
Glenn Havlicek climbed all the way up the ranks to managing director of global liquidity management, responsible for the issuance of all liabilities across the bank, over 22 years at J.P. Morgan and its predece… -
Regulatory Tech Firm Sovos Aggressively Hiring Programmers
Sovos, a financial software and regulatory technology (regtech) firm headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts, has been expanding aggressively, both via acquisition and an ongoing hiring push. Sovos, which se… -
Blockchain and Bitcoin Jobs Coming to Wall Street
Right now, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and ether are all the rage. Despite public skepticism from some senior Wall Street executives (I’m looking at you, Jamie Dimon), many banks are interested in hiring p… -
Got a PhD in CS or Statistics? Consider Wall Street.
This article excerpt is from eFinancialCareers. If you want to work on J.P. Morgan’s Quantitative and Derivative Strategy team within the bank’s Global Research group, then you better have a PhD in one of three… -
Tech Firms Battling Quant Hedge Funds for Talent
This article excerpt is from eFinancialCareers. Hedge funds are quietly courting some of the top technologists and quants in Silicon Valley, offering them six-figure starting salaries or million-dollar packages… -
Wall Street's Top Universities for Technology Talent
This article excerpt is from eFinancialCareers. When banks want students and graduates for their technology analyst programs on Wall Street and in U.S. finance, where do they turn? Not necessarily to Silicon Va… -
A.I. Specialists Can Earn as Much as NFL Players
This article excerpt is from eFinancialCareers. Forget all the hype around artificial intelligence (A.I.): If you’ve really got the skills that Silicon Valley and Wall Street need, you could haul in millions of… -
Gig Economy's Next Target: Trading Algorithms
This article was originally published on eFinancialCareers. The crowdsourcing model for developing trading algorithms has gained traction on the buy side and is picking up momentum. Just as Uber and Airbnb have… -
Bank Tech VP: Data, A.I. Skills You'll Need to Survive
This article excerpt is from eFinancialCareers. Jhonasttan Regalado has worked in various technology roles at bulge-bracket banks since he got his first job leading the massive overhaul of Chase Bank’s IT platf…