Barclays Wealth Management

What a morning at the Barclays Eagle Labs in Glasgow with the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce ✨ It was great hearing from our own award winning Nathalie Cutting on how the she works along side the labs to support innovative businesses📈 I really enjoyed hearing the story of how Glasgow automatically stepped to host the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games, I am so proud to live in a city with a pre existing infrastructure for events such as this! I cannot wait to see the excitement during the games, as well as the social and economic benefits it will bring 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Thanks for an amazing morning! I really loved the Cottonrake pastries🥐

Here is a snippet from my upcoming book - who can relate to this? "Looking back now, I also realised something else that felt quite uncomfortable to admit. Before cancer, life had become so relentless. Work. School runs. Pressure. Targets. Emails. Social events. Life admin. Trying to be everything to everyone all at once. I had become permanently busy. And although I would never, ever have consciously wished illness on myself, I do remember sometimes lying in bed mentally begging for something — anything — to happen, that would force everything to stop for a while so I could finally rest without feeling guilty about it. Even writing that now feels strange. I didn’t even know if I properly believed in God, but I used to speak to “someone” in my head sometimes: God, the universe, whoever was listening. Almost as if I was asking for permission to step off the treadmill for a while. Obviously, breast cancer was not what I meant. Not even remotely. But going through it did force me to stop and completely re-evaluate the way I had been living my life beforehand. And I think that was one of the hardest and most important realisations of all. I was used to managing other people’s wealth. Suddenly, I was managing my own health — and I was completely out of my depth." I’ve been writing about the experience over the last few months and it’s made me realise how many people quietly feel exhausted whilst pretending everything is completely fine. Maybe more of us need permission to slow down before life forces us to.

What if you knew exactly when Goldman Sachs , JPMorganChase , or Citi were about to open applications for 2026 before everyone else did? Most students start preparing after applications go live. The smart ones start at least 2-3 months earlier. So I built a predictive hiring timeline for major investment banking roles in India. Pulled historical opening dates, analysed hiring cycle patterns across the past five years, and used claude to identify recurring timelines and estimate probable opening windows for the next cycle. Tracked across firms like Goldman Sachs , JPMorganChase , Barclays , Nomura , HSBC , and more. The logic behind this is simple. If you know when hiring cycles begin, you can: - network earlier - prep earlier - apply on day 0 - avoid finding out after deadlines close Compiled the full list into one searchable sheet with predicted timelines for top IB firms in India. Want access to the hiring sheet? Comment your mail ID below, and I’ll send it across. If you know someone who is figuring out off-campus placements and would benefit from this, tag them below. This might just save them months of confusion. #Hiring #Finance #InvestmentBanking

Great evening at the Cambridgeshire Law Society Legal Excellence Awards held at Queens' College, Cambridge last night. It was a pleasure to attend alongside our corporate team, thanks for the invite Graham Martin . It was fantastic to see so many leading firms and professionals from across the region recognised for their achievements and contributions to the legal sector, as well as so many familiar faces. Congratulations to all the nominees and winners a well-deserved celebration. A special mention to Fiona McLeman for being the star of the show 🌟 #LegalExcellence #Cambridge #PrivateBank #Networking #AwardsNight #CLSLEA26