Hehe, if you ask any B-School students aiming IB nowadays, Asia (HK) is the top choice. The Wall Street factor is less important as IBD is a client coverage job. It's hard for Chinese to build client relationship in US and even you do, the relationship is not so valuable in HK. You may say many senior bankers in HK are from Wall Street, but the truth is they were hired many years ago or have >8 years industrial exposure. But if you want to start IB now, choose HK. In GSB, most people recruit for HK. The 10 offers were obtained by 6 people but only 2 chose to take US offers. The friend who went to T.Row was from foreign commercial bank background with CFA. |