Subjects:

Banking and Finance

Contents:

1. THE CITY AS A MARKET

2. WHY COMPANIES NEED MONEY

3. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A COMPANY FLOATS

4. M&AS (AND MORE ON MBOS)

5. MY WORD IS MY BOND: DEBT SECURITIES

6. WHAT’

S A BANK?

7. MORE ON COMMERCIAL BANKING

8. MORE ON INVESTMENT BANKING

9. MARKET WHALES INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS

10. GOING FOR BROKE

11. MORE ABOUT MARKETS

12. BIG PICTURE: THE IMPACT OF ECONOMICS

13. DERIVATIVES, SYNTHETICS AND ALL THAT JAZZ

14. THE ALCHEMY OF SECURITISATION

15. LLOYD’

S OF LONDON & REINSURANCE

AFTERWORD & BIBLIOGRAPHY –

WHERE NEXT?

JARGON BUSTER

All You Need To Know About The City 2008/2009 is a new book designed to help anyone who needs to know how the City works. No matter whether you work in them or are an interested bystander the international markets affect you. But few people undertsand how they work or what the principal players do. This book demystifies them using very simple language.

It’s designed for people in front-line fee-earning roles as well as mid-office and back office staff. "Its aimed at people in their first jobs as bankers, brokers, fund managers, lawyers, accountants, insurance brokers, surveyors, actuaries, PRs, recruiters and headhunters," says Stoakes. "But its also for support staff such as secretaries, PAs and business managers as well as people in Accounts, HR, IT, Business Development, PR, compliance, settlement and custody.

They need to understand what the fee-earners do in order to support them in their roles. That’s because for City institutions to compete these days, all of their people need to understand the business.