- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Four by Four Publishing Limited (10 May 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0954637224
- ISBN-13: 978-0954637224
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.4 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 297,099 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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All you need to know about the City: 2009/10 edition, revised and updated for the credit crunch.
The title used to train the world's finest law firms, banks, accountants and other professionals. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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We all know the quickest and surest way to a million is through the City, but how is it done? Here at last is a simple guide
All You Need To Know About The City is a new book designed to help anyone who needs to know how the City works. No matter whether you work in them or are an interested bystander the international markets affect you. But few people undertsand how they work or what the principal players do. This book demystifies them using very simple language.
It’s designed for people in front-line fee-earning roles as well as mid-office and back office staff. "It’s aimed at people in their first jobs as bankers, brokers, fund managers, lawyers, accountants, insurance brokers, surveyors, actuaries, PRs, recruiters and headhunters," says Stoakes. "But it’s also for support staff such as secretaries, PAs and business managers as well as people in Accounts, HR, IT, Business Development, PR, compliance, settlement and custody. They 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.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Whether it's "all" depends on who "you" are - but excellent for most outsiders and debutantes
2 May 2008
Format:Paperback
Chris Stoakes trained as a solicitor at Freshfields ( one of the "magic circle" City law firms), was marketing partners in a medium-sized City firm, and is now Head of Legal Training at Lovells (another very big one). In this the 2008/09 second edition, which seems to have been updated following the event of the "credit crunch" in early 2008 (references to sub-prime mortgages, for example), he provides an overview, a context and an often humorous analogy for just about every financial transaction in "the City", including the insurance market. The book is based on a series of training sessions that he has delivered over the years.
I came at this as a reasonably well informed outsider (I have never worked in the City of London, and probably never will) and found this is an excellent book to improve on my broad understanding of the financial markets. Whether it would be right for you will depend on how sophisticated your current understanding is. Stoakes places his book as follows: he starts by saying "I've had to cut corners, leave things out and tell a few fibs in the interests of getting the message across quickly and simply". At the end, under "Where Next?" he recommends The Economist's books on The City, Wall Street and "The Financial Markets" - written by Richard Roberts and Marc Levinson respectively - as "the next step up". He also gives specific recommendations for particular areas, such as Finance & banking, Investment Banking, Commercial banking, Economics, Risk etc.
If you want to be able to differentiate senior debt from junior or subordinated debt, know the principle of mezzanine debt, understand the difference between a merchant and an investment bank, or understand the difference between LIBOR and the base rate, this is the book for you. For my own purposes I see little need to delve deeper, although I may well read Stoakes' other book, "All you need to know about Commercial Awareness" in due course.
I came at this as a reasonably well informed outsider (I have never worked in the City of London, and probably never will) and found this is an excellent book to improve on my broad understanding of the financial markets. Whether it would be right for you will depend on how sophisticated your current understanding is. Stoakes places his book as follows: he starts by saying "I've had to cut corners, leave things out and tell a few fibs in the interests of getting the message across quickly and simply". At the end, under "Where Next?" he recommends The Economist's books on The City, Wall Street and "The Financial Markets" - written by Richard Roberts and Marc Levinson respectively - as "the next step up". He also gives specific recommendations for particular areas, such as Finance & banking, Investment Banking, Commercial banking, Economics, Risk etc.
If you want to be able to differentiate senior debt from junior or subordinated debt, know the principle of mezzanine debt, understand the difference between a merchant and an investment bank, or understand the difference between LIBOR and the base rate, this is the book for you. For my own purposes I see little need to delve deeper, although I may well read Stoakes' other book, "All you need to know about Commercial Awareness" in due course.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is great for those just about to head in to the city to work, those thinking about doing so but are scared or even people that have been in there for a while and need to brush up.
It answers so many questions that you'd feel embarassed to ask and does so delightfully - it's written simply and not like a textbook, it's actually enjoyable to read and you won't want to put it down.
However I would recommend looking elsewhere for a better price, I got mine on ebay for £9 inc. delivery!
It answers so many questions that you'd feel embarassed to ask and does so delightfully - it's written simply and not like a textbook, it's actually enjoyable to read and you won't want to put it down.
However I would recommend looking elsewhere for a better price, I got mine on ebay for £9 inc. delivery!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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I now know a lot more about the workings of the City, including how banks really work. This book has also helped me to understand a lot of the jargon in the Financial Times. It's a very enjoyable read - the author uses simple analogies to explain some of the concepts, making it a lot quicker to learn them than from a textbook.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Easy read for non-finance personel
The book is very easy to read and understand as most financial lingo are easily explained. Bought it as I recently started an MBA program to get up to speed on life in the City and... Read more
Published 28 days ago by Pepezz...
Nice book
This is a great book which contains many useful information about the city that we are living. :) I have personally learnt a lot from this book.
Published 2 months ago by justin
Terrific Introduction Book For Commercial Awareness
This book is very well written. Short and to the point. Each chapter covers a particular aspect of the City and has made everything so clear. Read more
Published 3 months ago by gadgetguy
Serious misleading title
Two days into reading ( as it's such a concise book) I can see there is a serious problem with this book. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Vas
Brilliant!
Brilliant book! If you need a refresher or a great overview about finance in the city, this is a great book. Read more
Published 6 months ago by ZeeBug
Brilliant introduction to a complex topic
This book is a brilliant introduction to an otherwise complex and perplexing topic. As someone who works in the services function for a major investment bank I was constantly... Read more
Published 8 months ago by J Arnold
Brilliant
A very easy and enjoyable read yet still full of important details. The information in this book helped me to secure an internhip in one of the top investment banks which... Read more
Published 8 months ago by John
Great - All the basics, easy to read and comprehend.
I read this book in order to get an understanding of the city as part of a career change. I found it very useful indeed. Read more
Published 8 months ago by bat10bat
Great!
To understand the basic workings of the City you could spend many weeks reading the FT and Economist in conjunction with Investopedia. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Mash
Excellent guide - now need a blog in same style
There's little to add that others have not said already, but I would say that as someone who has worked in the City for some time but not always understood what is behind all the... Read more
Published 12 months ago by R. D. Tromans
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