[Banking-pm] Any newbies?

leif.eriksen at hpa.com.au leif.eriksen at hpa.com.au
Sun Sep 17 18:28:25 PDT 2006


 Yo Alex,

	My desire to go to England is twofold -
1. London is one of the 2 great financial hubs in the world. The best people are there. To succeed you need to surround yourself with the best people. I've been to NY and couldn't stand it. I've been to London and loved it. So having made a plan to target my skills towards the financial world, London seems the best place to be.
2. English history fascinates me - and so to be there and explore it in-situ is incredibly exciting to me.

My financial knowledge is a little better than average - I studied accounting and finance at school, but did not progress that at Uni - computers were so much more interesting. But I seem (until very recently) to have done lots with financial systems (especially reporting and transaction flows) ever since I graduated over 10 years ago.

I know the answer to your last two questions (though I'm guessing these don’t have formal rigid definitions) - and I don’t know the first two, which probably do have formal answers.

So there's work for me to do - the list is working beautifully.

L

-----Original Message-----
From: alex at owal.co.uk [mailto:alex at owal.co.uk] 
Sent: Friday, 15 September 2006 7:32 PM
To: banking-pm at pm.org
Subject: Re: [Banking-pm] Any newbies?

> My short-term motivation is to get a job for a year or two in London, 
> which feeds into my long-term motivation of then returning to an 
> Australian bank and continuing from there.

Hello Leif,

Is there any reason why you dont want to skip the London stage and just go work for a bank in Australia?

What is your financial knowledge like?

Do you know what a bond is? and interest rate swap?
Do you know the difference between Market and Credit Risk?
Do you know what a trading system is?
Do you know what the difference between front, middle, and back office is?

Can anyone else add some more questions?
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