Author: nmcottitto

I am a Senior Recruitment Consultant Focusing in Corporate Banking, my main areas of expertise are: Coverage Banking, Transaction Banking, Trade Finance & ECA/Structured Finance, Project Finance, Securitization, both in Japan and Asia Pacific. I partner up with all the global corporate bank, providing business strategy advice, top-talented bankers at any level. Opening a blog which is all around, in & out recruitment: for the candidates, for the colleagues, for the clients.

Stablecoins, Tokenisation & the Future of Transaction Banking Talent in Japan

The 2025 Singapore FinTech Festival highlighted a decisive shift in the global financial landscape. Stablecoins, tokenised deposits, programmable payments, and real-time settlement infrastructure dominated discussions across regulators, banks, and technology firms. What began as exploratory innovation is now shaping the strategic agenda for transaction banking across Asia. Japan, with an updated regulatory framework and ongoing […]

The Ducksauce: Cook me that candidate!

The recipe for a successful candidate screening Hi All, Indeed, it’s been some time since my last article, and tonight — while my radio fires up some disco nostalgia taking me back to the days when I started this journey into headhunting — with the lights down low, I’d like to take the liberty (and […]

How to Rehumanize a Socially Dehumanized Society

It only took a late-night call with an old friend to realize how far we’ve slipped — a society so busy pretending to live that it forgot what living means. We run on wheels, scroll through feeds, buy careers like takeout, and call it progress, while the real essence of life — presence, debate, connection […]

Did Video Kill the radio stars [Side A]?

How COVID has influenced society, relations, social situations but most importantly the game of recruiting in the past few years ? Let’s have a close, not too serious look on how the ‘lergy (aka COVID) killed the radio stars , and human interactions after all… in this imaginary SIDE A of the record would like […]

BEEN A LONG TIME: BUT I AM FINALLY BACK.

Hey All, I know I owe everyone an apology as I disappeared from this platform while many things have occurred during my years of absence from the” magic world of blogging”. I must say I have enjoyed the first few bits of it, and I believe this is a project that deserves to keep going, […]

Brain+Heart+Guts : the secret recipe for success

More and more, after 10 years of career as headhunter, I believe that the secret recipe to succeed in the business is the combination of 3 factors: 1- brain, as you need to be lucid to understand the business , appreciate its nuances and predict unforeseen scenarios, as you need to make sure to catch […]

It’s not over (until it’s over) chronicles of never ending negotiations: the art of resilience

Long time since I posted on this blog, indeed has been a crazy week so far and as we are facing the end of the Q1 , the time that every recruiter in this market is in the make of a major grinding session for last minute closing, trying to swing through filthy contracts before the […]

Headhunters 2.0: how the job has gone digital – the new rules of candidate engagement.

The topic of today comes after discussions around how new media are rewriting rules of engagement among people and most importantly, the relationship between candidate and headhunter. With the coming of various SNS and blogs, we built aliases and profiles on communities, social networks and other websites and spend more time with smartphones, scrolling down the […]

Working on the best sales brochure, now: the Resume is more important than you think.

Day in and day out one of the activities that headhunters are involved in is the CV screening. We receive hundreds of emails everyday, as many candidates desperately send profiles from everywhere while replying to job adverts in internet. Sometimes they contact us right in the middle of the night and from the most remote […]

Recruiters VS Headhunters: How much do you know about us?d b

Busy mornings, sleepless nights… I am sure that all of you are pretty tired after a working day, and while watching your favorite drama on Netflix your phone keeps buzzing & blinking: email notifications, Linkedin messages and other flashy icons that grab your attention away from your TV. Or maybe you are just trying to catch […]