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Clean up

Thursday, November 6, 2008

When I joined Lehman in April 2007, the systems and processes imposed by the US part of our global team were very messy and required a large amount of man-power just to keep going. The philosophy seemed to be “long hours = good work.”
I’ve long wanted to clean this all up, but it’s just not [...]

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Getting it up

Saturday, November 1, 2008

It took a while, but after a lot of hard work by the team, we finally got it up.
Where ‘it’ is the One True Global* Puma.
 
* the other Puma being the dodgy one that only runs in the US

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New Job

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Well, actually it’s my old job, although not completely.
So Lehman Brothers Holding filed for Chapter 11 a couple of weeks ago, the US bit got bought whole by Barclays Capital, and Nomura International are in the process of buying the Equities plus other bits of Lehman UK, the whole (I think) of Lehman Japan and also Lehman [...]

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Wednesday

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

But it feels like Friday already - been a busy and tiring week; last week too.
Today is going to be very busy with already-planned interviews and the first day of the Lehman/Nomura merge, so half the day in the City and half in Canary Wharf.
Fortunately, I’ve got a long weekend coming up, with an Audi [...]

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Turning Japanese

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

So today we find out that the European Lehman business was acquired by Nomura. We lose the US, but keep with the Lehman guys in Tokyo.
Our new CEO, Kenichi san, looks like a top geezer too.
Interesting times, lots of opportunity, and quite a few relieved faces around here.

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