Barclays

Originally Posted by Unregistered

wait, barclays have graduate programs for for consumer & corporate banking in singapore? can someone confirm please?

yes can confirm that barclays have retail and corporate banking in singapore

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Ahh, then in this case would Barclays Compliance Grad be better than the MA or grad programs from local or regional banks such as OCBC, DBS, UOB?

Better in terms of the prestige, branding, salary, and exit opportunities. Would appreciate anyone who has some info, please be respectful as this thread is just to help one another out.

Sorry I'm not really sure about compliance in banks, but if you wanna read: imo i would think it's better to go barclays compliance if u already have an interest in compliance or u are leaning towards this also not sure all 3 local banks have the same training rotation for MA, but from what I heard, UOB has rotations out of your own division (which means if your home division is global markets, your rotation would be 5 other divisions + global markets). so you'll get a wider exposure -- if you're still undecided on compliance, this might be better!

just ignore the salty people, we'll be kind to one another on our own. all the best for your apps!

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Sorry I'm not really sure about compliance in banks, but if you wanna read: imo i would think it's better to go barclays compliance if u already have an interest in compliance or u are leaning towards this also not sure all 3 local banks have the same training rotation for MA, but from what I heard, UOB has rotations out of your own division (which means if your home division is global markets, your rotation would be 5 other divisions + global markets). so you'll get a wider exposure -- if you're still undecided on compliance, this might be better!

just ignore the salty people, we'll be kind to one another on our own. all the best for your apps!

Thank you so much for your sharings!

So glad to see people like yourself in this thread, I’m sure you’re doing well yourself too!

I would go for the barclays brand name especially if you are set on compliance. At a local bank like UOB the poor performers usually get rotated to a lower end function like credit cards where you can basically consider your career over.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I would go for the barclays brand name especially if you are set on compliance. At a local bank like UOB the poor performers usually get rotated to a lower end function like credit cards where you can basically consider your career over.

Ahh actually not really set on compliance per se but I missed all bank’s grad opening even for the Barclays expert grad or other explorer grad, so at the time I applied compliance was the only one that had an opening.

So I may be looking to jump ship after a few years hence the as hoping this offer (if given) wouldn’t affect my prospects in future 😬

Has Barclays reached out on next steps after the recruiter’s email to confirm your grad date last week?

Havent gotten any follow up steps yet

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I would go for the barclays brand name especially if you are set on compliance. At a local bank like UOB the poor performers usually get rotated to a lower end function like credit cards where you can basically consider your career over.

How is credit cards a lower end function worse than compliance? You will be in a revenue generating function instead of a cost centre

Originally Posted by Unregistered

How is credit cards a lower end function worse than compliance? You will be in a revenue generating function instead of a cost centre

Then can you share why compliance is deemed worse or worst of all functions? Sounds like you deemed compliance as the worst department, if it’s really that bad why do a bulge bother having a grad programme for it then?

Just really curious on this…

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Havent gotten any follow up steps yet

Please update if you do, will do the same too!