I remember my first job interview. It was my first job after my postgraduate degree. The process concluded with a full day assessment centre. It was cold so I had to borrow a coat.  It didn’t fit. And I wasn’t massively comfortable in my suit either, which I had only worn previously to weddings.

As a credit analyst in India, there are a number of research firms touting themselves to you as offering global work.

The Indian Institutes of Management (“IIMs”) are the premier management education institutes in India. The IIM building program was initiated by India’s first PM, Jawaharlal Nehru, so that India could have a cadre of global-level managers.

Analysts with experience in the markets are valuable to you. Some experienced analysts will be recruited externally, but you would hope that most of your experienced analysts will have been developed internally, from the graduate program onwards.

Lobbyists for the American banking industry will presumably be congratulating themselves on a hard game well won this week. Michael Barr, the Federal Reserve’s vice-chair for supervision, admitted that consultation process on new capital rules known as the “Basel Endgame” had been a “lesson in humility”.

Ever felt the unease when offshore analysts join an onshore team? It’s more than just logistical concerns. Mary Douglas’s book, Purity and Danger, offers a profound explanation. 

Why does remote working sometimes flop? Simple: bandwidth. 

When it comes to offshore engagements, the most significant predictor of success is simple: someone’s got to own communication. 

Davies worked as an economist at the Bank of England and as a bank analyst before moving to consulting and writing.

From the algorithm that raises your insurance premium to institutional denials over state scandals, it’s a problem with deep roots.

Of all the many curious things about investment banking, the titles it gives people are not the least.

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.