Cityboy

Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile

Geraint Anderson

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English

Headline
01 March 2009

Biography; Autobiography: business & industry; Banking

'Who is Cityboy? He s every brash, suited, FT-carrying idiot who ever pushed past you on the tube. He s the egotistical buffoon who loudly brags about how much cash he s made on the market at otherwise pleasant dinner parties. For one period in my life, he was me.'

In this no-holds-barred, warts-and-all account of life in London s financial heartland, Cityboy breaks the Square Mile s code of silence in his own inimitable style, revealing explosive secrets, tricks of the trade and the corrupt, murky underbelly at the heart of life in the City. Drawing on his experience as a young analyst in a major investment bank, the six-figure bonuses, monstrous egos, and the everyday culture of verbal and substance abuse that fuels the world s money markets is brutally exposed as Cityboy describes his ascent up the hierarchy of this intensely competitive and morally dubious industry, and how it almost cost him his sanity.

By: Geraint Anderson
Imprint: Headline
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 301g
ISBN: 9780755346189
ISBN 10: 0755346181
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 01 March 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Geraint Anderson's dream of becoming a global traveller was cruelly dashed after university at Oxford, when his brother got him an interview at a French bank in the City, which, unbeknown to him at the time, would set him on the rocky road to destruction and despair. A chance for salvation came in September 2006 when he was offered the opportunity to write the anonymous weekly City Boy column in thelondonpaper.

Reviews for Cityboy: Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile

As a primer to back-stabbing, bullying, drug-taking, gambling, boozing, lap-dancing, this takes some beating ... a necessary and valuable book - Evening Standard Engaging, timely and important - Times His timing couldn't be better ... London's pernicious financial world reveals itself in all its ugliness - Daily Mail Excruciatingly candid - Sunday Times