I was recently asked this in a meeting with a senior team from a global bank.

Cutting edge-work practices are non-standard ways of working which tend to increase productivity in higher value added roles.

As we start expanding our service range to cover equity, derivatives and risk as well as credit research, we have needed to expand our training and development programs to dvelop the skills of our analysts

I remember my first job interview. It was my first job after my postgraduate degree. The process concluded with a full day assessment centre. It was cold so I had to borrow a coat.  It didn’t fit. And I wasn’t massively comfortable in my suit either, which I had only worn previously to weddings.

As a credit analyst in India, there are a number of research firms touting themselves to you as offering global work.

The Indian Institutes of Management (“IIMs”) are the premier management education institutes in India. The IIM building program was initiated by India’s first PM, Jawaharlal Nehru, so that India could have a cadre of global-level managers.

Numbers are alluring. They are seductive and they are universal. 

Off-shore staff are notorious for high levels of turnover. I’m guessing that McDonald’s wherever you live has high turnover of staff too. Is it something about Indians? Is it something about Chicken McNuggets? I doubt it.

It has been just over 9 months since my colleague Gunjan and I started supporting one of the CROs of a large Canadian bank.

From my 38 years of experience, my advice to new Financial Crime and Anti Money Laundering analysts is that you must understand the underlying crimes which create the problem funds.

A few years ago I was asked to take up the challenge of helping to fast track top level Indian analysts into global capital markets.

Here are two things which I often hear from analysts who work with offshore resources, and I’ve been wondering how they can be consistent