Once, we were kings. In 2010, I was promoted to director at Credit Suisse’s top-ranked European banks research team. In those days, we managed emergency capital issuance for other banks, rather than answering questions about our own.

Have you listened to the most recent episode of Odd lots, Bloomberg Radio?

I was recently asked this in a meeting with a senior team from a global bank.

What happened at the Presidents Club quite rightly generated a howl of outrage from the real City, the proper City. Moving past that, how do you help solve the Presidents Club problem? The answer is easy, cheap and profitable.

Off-shore staff are notorious for high levels of turnover. I’m guessing that McDonald’s wherever you live has high turnover of staff too. Is it something about Indians? Is it something about Chicken McNuggets? I doubt it.

It looks very much as if MIFID II is happening, and that it will cover all the sell-side and almost all the buy-side.

The past few weeks have been stressful for investors of bitcoin and other digital currencies, leaving them struggling to decipher bitcoin’s true value.

Where can you efficiently locate offices for risk management and capital markets analysts? Whether you are looking at near-shore or off-shore locations, or indeed which corner of your trading floor you want to place people in, there are three key considerations.

Should bankers come back to the office? Opinion is divided amongst the great and the good of banking C-suites (US and Europe split on bringing bankers back to the office, Financial Times, 10th May 2021).

These days, when it comes to off-shoring thinking tasks, a lot of banks are feeling pretty jaded with wherever their off-shoring has been done. Usually that’s India.

We all know that offshore analysts are hugely efficient for budgets. Unhappily, local research and risk analysts tend to resist increasing their usage.

It has been just over 9 months since my colleague Gunjan and I started supporting one of the CROs of a large Canadian bank.

From my 38 years of experience, my advice to new Financial Crime and Anti Money Laundering analysts is that you must understand the underlying crimes which create the problem funds.

There is no such thing as delegation of responsibility in a regulated industry. 

Talking to financial sector companies and investors about the future of their technology systems, I have been surprised to discover that one of the biggest attractions of cloud computing for them was something as simple as being able to automate software updates. 

You’re a risk manager who has been mandated to plan cost-efficient augmentation of your team. You’ve opened a file, done save as, what next? Read how to move from tabula rasa to a plan.

Costs need to come down in banking, so it’s inevitable that the CEO or COO will knock on the door of risk management and mandate offshoring or augmentation.

A few years ago I was asked to take up the challenge of helping to fast track top level Indian analysts into global capital markets.

When introducing or upgrading an augmented research team, banks, asset managers and risk managers often hope that their home centre teams will automatically work out how to collaborate with these resources.

Here are two things which I often hear from analysts who work with offshore resources, and I’ve been wondering how they can be consistent