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FCA: “Our Training and Competence sourcebook requires individuals who carry out certain activities for retail clients to hold an appropriate qualification. The Retail Distribution Review (RDR) professionalism reform is designed to raise standards and increase knowledge levels across the retail investment market.” What? RDR is central to the FCA’s agenda of customer protection: giving customers Read More …
When RBS collapsed and had to be bailed out by the taxpayer in the financial crisis of October 2008, it played a leading role in tipping Britain into its deepest economic downturn in seven decades. The economy shrank, bank lending froze, hundreds of thousands lost their jobs, living standards are still falling and Britons will be Read More …
Stephen D. King, Chief Economist and Global Head of Economics and Asset Allocation research at HSBC, was paged at an airport a few years ago. When he showed up at the information desk, the obviously disappointed attendant said, “Oh, you’re not the Stephen King that writes books.” “Yes, I am,” Mr. King responded, pulling a Read More …
The bestselling author of The Sellout tells the explosive story of the government’s crackdown on insider-trading networks—an investigation that has already racked up more than 60 convictions. In Circle of Friends, Charles Gasparino, the award-wining financial journalist and one of Wall Street’s most knowledgeable observers follows government investigators and prosecutors as they pursue one of the most aggressive Read More …
The New York Times Bestseller, The Buy Side, is written by Turney Duff who worked on Wall Street since 1994, including at Morgan Stanley, the Galleon Group, Argus Partners, and J.L. Berkowitz. His book is a high adrenaline journey through the trading underworld, as well as a searing look at an after-hours Wall Street culture Read More …
After the fall of Lehman Brothers, Joe Peta needed a new employer. He found a new job in New York City but lost that, too, when an ambulance mowed him down as he crossed the street on foot. In search of a way to cheer himself up while he recuperated in a wheelchair, Peta started Read More …
Leigh Boyer’s debut novel, From Wall Street with Love, is a scandalous tale of the inside workings that goes on in the world of high finance. From the first page you are drawn into a web of deception, lies, and an every-man-for-himself mentality. This book will really make you think about what it takes to Read More …
The Greatest Trade Ever: How John Paulson Bet Against the Markets and Made $20 Billion In 2006, hedge fund manager John Paulson realized something few others suspected–that the housing market and the value of subprime mortgages were grossly inflated and headed for a major fall. Paulson’s background was in mergers and acquisitions, however, and he Read More …
Michael Lewis’s 1989 Liar’s Poker, exposed the shenanigans of Wall Street bond-trading house Salomon Brothers at their greatest prosperity in the mid eighties. The Traders of Salomon were a mercenary bunch of ignorant, gluttonous, hooligans who didn’t get what they deserved… Treacherous to everyone in every way – from colleagues, superiors, juniors and customers, this Read More …