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  • Paperback: 242 pages
  • Publisher: Longtail Publishing Limited; Revised edition edition (Feb 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0955218632
  • ISBN-13: 978-0955218637
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
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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.

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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"

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5.0 out of 5 stars Invaluable resource for grads and interns, 31 July 2006
By Mr. Samuel J. Tombs - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All You Need to Know About the City: Who Does Why and What in London's Financial Markets (Paperback)
I brought this book when applying for jobs in the City so that I would sound like I was informed. The book is attractively laid out and certainly not dry - the text is a joy to read and doesn't bore you to death like some others. It has everything I needed so that I didn't embarrass myself on my first day, and more importantly, I still use it and refer back to it now that I'm at work. It's not written for business guru's - its for students, grads and interns who don't have any real practical knowledge of how the world works (that doesn't mean that its basic though). A sound investment.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Informative, easy to digest, and, above all, interesting! , 13 Jun 2007
I came across this book when I was just starting out in the City and it helped me immensely. The author's conversational tone makes for a great read, and the book really does pack everything you need to know into 224 relaxed pages. I had a muddled understanding of how everything connected in the financial market, but this book completely demystified everything. I can now converse with City types about derivatives, hedge funds and securitisation without breaking a sweat!

I would highly recommend it to anyone working in the City - from newbies who are starting out and need to know what all the unfamiliar jargon means, to those who've been at it for a while but need to brush up or clarify something. This book will answer all the questions you were too embarrassed to ask without being patronising or going all 'boring textbook' on you.

Definitely a must-read.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Whether it's "all" depends on who "you" are - but excellent for most outsiders and debutantes, 2 May 2008
By Mr. Nicholas Dougan "Nick" (Kent, UK) - See all my reviews
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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.
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