Cityboy- Geraint Anderson

Has anyone read this book?

I've just got through it in 3 days and must say I was engroosed and fascinated by the cynical expose given by this ex broker who (apparently?!?) has now gained a conscience and decided to dig the dirt on UK financial industry.

I was just interested if anyone on this forum had an opinion as to the contents of this book. I found it fascinating, however, felt uneasy that the guy is just bluffing with his new found concerns. After all he appears to have made his millions and is now cashing in on the financial crisis.

Also, anyone care to comment on its accuracy of what are some eye opening storylines.

If you've not read it, may I recommend it to visitors to this forum.

Regards

Anderson's book was an airport lounge book I thought, he came across as a complete ballbag... It was written in that horrible, 'everything's sensational' style that ultimately undermines the claims he's making.
I expect we'll be awash in banking exposes soon.. this one looks promising How I Caused the Credit Crunch
I can't wait for the CEO /CFO type memoirs from the Lehman/Bear Stearns/AIG guys, If they ever come out..
You'd probably enjoy Ben Mezrich's books, his latest is Rigged tres feckin' bon

complete ****** - if you see him punch him in the face

his replacement, citygirl, isn't much better either. if you see her kick her in the ****

Cityboy and Citygirl both quit their jobs when the heat got turned up (recession and being found out (and also book release) respectively). Cynical ploy to come across all righteous now.

Pathetic.

twat

i hated him after reading it,guys a twat

Yeah I've read 1 or 2 of these books. The common thread seems to be that the authors waited until they were personally minted before they quit and then made their claims about the immorality of it all.

I used to read his column weekly in the London Paper, but when the book came out I was massively let down, he really did try and sensationalize every detail.

At the end of the day, he was an analyst, and analysts are certainly not the City wideboys he was trying to make out, he was an Excel monkey masquerading in a pin-stripe suit.

'How I Caused The Credit Crunch' looks like a more engrossing read.

it is bettter

arabianights said:

complete ****** - if you see him punch him in the face

his replacement, citygirl, isn't much better either. if you see her kick her in the ****

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your right
city girl is Barbara *Stcherbatcheff
she was FSA registered for all of 9 months.
So what was she up to for the other 4 yrs of the 5 she says she was such a hot shot.
making tea?

fake.

FSA Register

Here's the excerpt for the cached Google result for her Wikipedia entry (now deleted):

link...
Barbara Stcherbatcheff (born 1981 in Chicago, Illinois), is a former City of London derivatives trader, and newspaper columnist, best known for her City Girl column in TheLondonPaper [1].

Early life

Raised by her Grandmother in the quaint Midwestern town of Woodstock, Illinois, the setting of the 1992 movie Groundhog Day (film), Barbara is an accomplished pianist and writer. She eventually earned a degree in Music and Economics at Colgate University, and then attended the Tuck Business Bridge Program at Dartmouth, before leaving for London to launch a career in finance.

Banking

She entered the City of London in 2004, working as an intern at the American investment bank Merrill Lynch, via the Mountbatten Fellowship. She fought hard to work her way up the ranks for the next couple years, frustrated with the boredom of the back office. In 2006, she was hired as a CDO Administrator at JP Morgan, then moved on to become a derivatives trader at Penson GHCO in Canary Wharf, and was admitted to the Eurex in 2006.[1] She moved to Mayfair in 2007, working as a financial consultant at JC Rathbone, commanding £365 pounds an hour [2]

Columnist

Stcherbatcheff started writing her City Girl column in the second quarter of 2008 for thelondonpaper, taking over the spot previously occupied by the anonymous City Boy columnist, Geraint Anderson. She has also contributed to BBC Business, Vanity Fair [2], Grazia, Welcome to your City News :: Here Is The City News :: The Latest Business & Financial Markets News And Views, Running In Heels - Pan-European comment on culture, politics and the arts for the modern woman, Grazia, and Cosmopolitan. [1]

On the 3rd of August, 2009, it was revealed that Stcherbatcheff was the City Girl columnist of thelondonpaper. The following week she published her first book: Confessions of a City Girl [3]

References

1. ^ a b Banker | barbarastcherbatcheff.com
2. ^ City girl is unmasked as Barbara Stcherbatcheff | thelondonpaper.com
3. ^ Confessions of a City Girl: Amazon.co.uk: Anonymous: Books

so she failed as a trader in other words... oh well, never saw that one coming...

City Boy was a real let down. "me and my trader friend got pissed in a pub in Liverpool St before heading off to a strip club in Shoreditch and loads of people took coke" Real ground breaking stuffzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe: Amazon.co.uk: Gillian Tett: Books

This is probably a better read, from a lady who seems to know what she's talking about when I've seen her on TV.