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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"
--This text refers to an alternate
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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 1 month 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 4 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 7 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 9 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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