Three Parrots
A colleague of mine told this story of three parrots during a meeting in front of our common boss, who was not impressed at all.
Corporate Life
Instant Water Heater
Here is how an engineer would replace an instant water heater.
Draw Red Lines with Green Ink
When it comes to business development, branding, you have to look for discontinuities, think outside the box, and not be constrained by conventionality, geometry etc. This short YouTube video will help.
Battles Too Small to Fight
Many companies owe small sums of money to us. Should we ignore it because the sum is small, or fight it because their loot is huge?
Work and Life, Corporate Life
Uninsured by Default
On the shady reimbursement practices of insurance companies.
Quantitative Finance, Books, Corporate Life
Where to Go from Here?
Winding up this long series with book recommendations. All right, recommending my own book…
Corporate Life, Quantitative Finance, Books
Other Trade Perspectives
The perspective that is most common in the bank is still trade-centric. But view that the whole bank appreciates is the view of the senior management, which is narrowly focussed on the bottom line. Here is more about such perspectives.
Books, Corporate Life, Quantitative Finance
Middle Office
The perspective employed by the Middle Office team is that of queues running in a first-in, first-out mode.
Work and Life, Corporate Life
Are You Busy?
Here is why it is important to be busy. And why what keeps us busy should at times be pointless.
Books, Corporate Life, Quantitative Finance
Quant Developers
The product-centric view of the quantitative developer suits their work paradigm.
Books, Corporate Life, Quantitative Finance
Quants
The perspective of the mathematical wizards of the bank, and why they often appear far-removed from the rest of the bank.
Books, Corporate Life, Quantitative Finance
Trade Perspectives
In this last section of this post series on how a bank works, we will see how the quants, quantitative developers and the middle office professionals (and the rest) see trades and trading activity.