Spies like us
I was reminded this week just how diverse the range of careers in finance can be when I conducted a mock interview for a Communications Monitoring Analyst within the Communications SurveillanceÂ...
View ArticleMaybe you have to change.
‘We need to communicate better’ – any of you who have sat through a team building session will recognise this statement. Â But how?read more...
View ArticleWhatâs a Reputation Worth?
Private companies exist to make (legal) returns for their shareholders. I think I’m right in saying that capitalists believe that letting these companies do this generates the most wealth; that in turn...
View ArticleIf at first you donât succeedâ¦â¦.
It’s the time of year when lots of people start new things – jobs, internships, periods of work experience, volunteering, summer camps etc. Â All of these things will call for people to do new things,...
View ArticleApprentice Archetypes
This is a blog post about the BBC show The Apprentice – but stick with me if you don’t watch it, I’ll still try to make it make sense to the uninitiated.read more...
View ArticleOld Dog, New Tricks
For the first time in my life I am conducting an academic research project. Â Many students do a dissertation as part of their bachelors degree, but I chose not to. Â I took all my CIPD exams, but...
View ArticleA strength, not just competent
For quite a long time now the fashionable interviewing technique, especially for early career professionals, has been competency interviewing. Â Lots of questions along the lines of ‘Tell me about a...
View ArticleA new dawn
It’s great to welcome our new students to the ICMAC – BSc, MSc, & PhD.read more...
View ArticleWhatâs it all worth?
There’s a lot in the news at the moment about the proposed new high speed train line – specifically about whether it is worth the billions of pounds it is projected to cost. Â Indeed, the 4th business...
View ArticleThe Peter, Paul & Mary Principle
I was chatting to a friend the other day about someone they work with. Â He was finding the colleague’s behaviour unbelievable, to the point where he realised that they must just be entirely out of...
View ArticleUnintended Consequences?
During the boom times the Investment Banking industry settled on a process that, they felt, helped them hoover up the brightest and best students before the other sectors got a look in – Spring Insight...
View ArticleHow good a picture can Euro GC Pooling provide of the interbank euro GC repo...
An interesting academic paper has recently suggested that Eurex Repoâs Euro GC Pooling (EGCP) system âallows us to comprehensively investigate the bilateral CCP-based part of the interbank segment...
View ArticleRepo, re-use and re-hypothecation
In the regulatory debate about shadow banking, and in particular repo, there has been much confusion about the legal terminology of collateral, some of it threatening to have substantive policy...
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