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Shadow Banking
It is 1994. The City is on the crest of a wave. But just how long can you ride it?
When Al Denham turns up to his first day at City banking giant Trenchart Colville, he thinks he’s there to start a job. But the fact is he’s at the beginning of a journey that will change his life forever.
Al is joined by fellow recruits, a ragtag combination of the brash and the charming, the box-tickers and the risk-takers. But soon he falls in with a core group. There’s razor-sharp New Yorker, Miles Ratner, who despite his enigmatic reticence and perfect suits has an infectious charm. Then there’s Fergal Quinn, fresh from Dublin’s fair city, full of tales of the craic and a punch line for every story. And then there’s Imogen Green, the gorgeous irreverent, playful presence who is going to prove a distraction...
Shadow Banking charts the lives of these young hopefuls on a meteoric course through fifteen years of turbulent markets, technological revolution and international terrorism as they spiral out of control like fireworks against the night sky.
Often funny, sometimes tragic, this is an insider’s view based on the personal experiences of a career spanning three decades. It will make you question everything you think you know about the money markets and the people who inhabit them. In the end it all comes down to one thing: money. The one who’s got the most when they die, wins...
When Al Denham turns up to his first day at City banking giant Trenchart Colville, he thinks he’s there to start a job. But the fact is he’s at the beginning of a journey that will change his life forever.
Al is joined by fellow recruits, a ragtag combination of the brash and the charming, the box-tickers and the risk-takers. But soon he falls in with a core group. There’s razor-sharp New Yorker, Miles Ratner, who despite his enigmatic reticence and perfect suits has an infectious charm. Then there’s Fergal Quinn, fresh from Dublin’s fair city, full of tales of the craic and a punch line for every story. And then there’s Imogen Green, the gorgeous irreverent, playful presence who is going to prove a distraction...
Shadow Banking charts the lives of these young hopefuls on a meteoric course through fifteen years of turbulent markets, technological revolution and international terrorism as they spiral out of control like fireworks against the night sky.
Often funny, sometimes tragic, this is an insider’s view based on the personal experiences of a career spanning three decades. It will make you question everything you think you know about the money markets and the people who inhabit them. In the end it all comes down to one thing: money. The one who’s got the most when they die, wins...
413 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 28, 2014
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September 6, 2018
This starts off as a bit of a soap opera featuring graduate trainnes in a City investment bank in 1994, and only becomes a thriller in the final quarter as the sub-prime market starts to hit and the 2008 recession kicks in. However, the story did move with pace and was a pleaeant enough read
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