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A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary

When I first read Alain de Botton (The Art of Travel), I was almost jealous. It never occurred to me to write about why so many elements of travel hold such allure, such promise, and cause such deceptively seductive grass-is-greener syndrome. more >>

Business Knowledge for IT in Private Equity

What is Private Equity? Private equity firms are basically investment companies. more >>

Business Knowledge for IT in Islamic Finance

Business Knowledge for IT in Islamic Finance deals with the convergence of business and IT in the Islamic finance industry and is designed to provide the platform for IT professionals to exploit the future demand for talent in this industry. more >>

Business Knowledge for IT in Insurance

As of January 2009, the quarterly survey from the CBI and PricewaterhouseCoopers showed a balance of +58% insurance companies planned to spend more on IT in the next 3 months. Should this trend continue, even in spite of the credit crunch, the Insurance industry will be a safe bet for IT professionals looking to further their careers. more >>

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Business Knowledge for IT in Prime Brokerage
What is Prime Brokerage? For readers that are not aware, prime brokerage is simply a bundled package of services that investment banks offers to their top clients. This service spawned from the needs of hedge funds. Prime brokers facilitate the clearance and settlement of securities traded by their clients. more >>
Ten Reasons to Read Smart World
Business Knowledge for IT in Private Wealth Management
Ex-Stringfellows Dancer Tells All

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Business Knowledge for IT in Retail Banking
Once the ugly duckling of the financial services industry, retail bankings image is undergoing a makeover. These days retail banking is increasingly resembling investment banking and is now positioned to attract the highest calibre of not only banking professionals, but IT professionals as well. more >>
Plight Of The Fortune Tellers
Business Knowledge for IT in Investment Management
Steeling Away

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Lots of Money and Lots of S.x

Ms Robinson graces our pages with advice and reviews. But as a professional writer she also graces real pages in a more ghostly form, and brings her first novel, Toxic People, 'a not-so-moral take on hedge funders and hubris' - to an Internet connection near you. more >>

He.l Bent on Success

At a rather (im)perfect time comes the perfect novel: Hell Bent on Success. Appropriately enough, it's written by a former investment banker with more than a little mischief lurking in his clearly active imagination. more >>

Business Knowledge for IT in Trading and Exchanges

Amid the recent turmoil in the financial markets, there is still a sector of the financial services industry where there is stiff competition. And that sector is the Exchange sector i.e. stock exchanges, futures exchanges and so on. more >>

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