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The global financial crisis has made what goes in the City of London's financial markets more important and relevant than ever.
What is the credit crunch and sub-prime lending? What are toxic tranches and SIVs and why do they matter?
If you're working in, or are thinking of working in the City, this book gives you the answers. Designed to be a quick and easy read, it explains what everything is and how it all connects.
As the author - a City insider - says:
"This is all I've ever needed to know in almost 30 years of working in and around the City"
This book is aimed principally at young, front-line, fee-earning professionals in the City – bankers, brokers, fund managers, lawyers, accountants, insurance brokers, surveyors, actuaries, patent attorneys, PRs, recruiters and headhunters, among others, starting out on their careers.
But it’s also for support staff such as secretaries, PAs and business managers as well as people in mid-office and back-office functions such as Accounts, HR, IT, Business Development, PR, compliance, settlement and custody – in other words, professionals who are specialists in their own jobs but need to understand what the fee-earners do in order to support them in their roles. That’s because for City institutions to compete these days, all of their people need to understand the business.
But this book is designed to be simple. So it’s also for students at school, college or university who are thinking of working in the City or need to understand it for their studies. This book isn’t restricted to the young and inexperienced, either. The course on which it’s based has been delivered by me to a roomful of regulators. Nor just to those in the City. Many people based outside London need to know what goes on in the City because it affects their work or their clients or their pensions and savings.

This book is aimed principally at young, front-line, fee-earning professionals in the City – bankers, brokers, fund managers, lawyers, accountants, insurance brokers, surveyors, actuaries, patent attorneys, PRs, recruiters and headhunters, among others, starting out on their careers.
But it’s also for support staff such as secretaries, PAs and business managers as well as people in mid-office and back-office functions such as Accounts, HR, IT, Business Development, PR, compliance, settlement and custody – in other words, professionals who are specialists in their own jobs but need to understand what the fee-earners do in order to support them in their roles. That’s because for City institutions to compete these days, all of their people need to understand the business.
But this book is designed to be simple. So it’s also for students at school, college or university who are thinking of working in the City or need to understand it for their studies. This book isn’t restricted to the young and inexperienced, either. The course on which it’s based has been delivered by me to a roomful of regulators. Nor just to those in the City. Many people based outside London need to know what goes on in the City because it affects their work or their clients or their pensions and savings.

Christopher Stoakes

Christopher Stoakes has spent his career in the City as a lawyer, journalist, partner in a law firm, management consultant, marketing director and, latterly, in charge of technical training at an international law firm. He has written for most of the quality national newspapers and has unique record in making the complex easily understood. He is also author of the best-selling All You Need to Know about Commercial Awareness - also available from Longtail.
Chris Stoakes has spent his career in the City, as a lawyer, journalist, partner in a law firm, management consultant, marketing director and, latterly, in charge of technical training at an international law firm. He has written for most of the quality national newspapers and has a unique record in making the complex easily understood.