by Darren Sharma | May 2, 2022 | Ops & change management
As my friends of a certain age will understand, I often lose things. Do I lose things more than I did when I was a youth? I’m not sure. But anyway, the solution is always the same – you need to know where things are. That’s not as easy as it used to be. Take for...
by Darren Sharma | Apr 1, 2022 | Ops & change management
I write as results season is getting into full flow for banks. The thrust of it already seems to be that banks are promising their shareholders that they will get serious about costs. It’s not easy being a bank these days. Flows are low; capital needs are...
by Darren Sharma | Dec 1, 2021 | Ops & change management
Analysts with experience in the markets are valuable to you. Some experienced analysts will be recruited externally, but you would hope that most of your experienced analysts will have been developed internally, from the graduate program onwards. Indeed, in due course...
by Darren Sharma | Jun 1, 2021 | Ops & change management
Where can you efficiently locate offices for risk management and capital markets analysts? Whether you are looking at near-shore or off-shore locations, or indeed which corner of your trading floor you want to place people in, there are three key considerations. These...
by Darren Sharma | May 3, 2021 | Ops & change management
These days, when it comes to off-shoring thinking tasks, a lot of banks are feeling pretty jaded with wherever their off-shoring has been done. Usually that’s India. Off-shoring is quite often a draining experience – I’ve written in other blogs about why this so often...
by Darren Sharma | Apr 1, 2021 | Ops & change management
We all know that offshore analysts are hugely efficient for budgets. Unhappily, local research and risk analysts tend to resist increasing their usage. Can we get past this with full buy-in from local stakeholders? The answer is yes and the key is quality. Graduates...
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