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Category: Alchemy stuff

Alchemy’s first workshop in BKK

Posted on April 3, 2007 by Jawwad

Ran a day long workshop on Basel II – Risk Models in Bangkok. Couldn’t be possible without the support and effort of our local partners in Thailand, Wealth Management. We had around 60 participants from the Thai SEC, the Ministry of Finance, the local mutual funds, local banks, and related financial institutions. I am still…

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Two new covers

Posted on March 25, 2007 by Jawwad

Just wrapped up two new cover designs for our new product brochure and our new platform handbook. All credits go to Jehan, Nida and Sabir at Enabling Technologies or ET. ET is so good and efficient that it is scary. In our last two projects it took them less than 48 hours to come up…

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At work on Pakistan day

Posted on March 23, 2007 by Jawwad

We thought the best way to celebrate Pakistan day would be to contribute to the GDP. Half the team is in the office slaving off for a client pitch on Monday.

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Mohtashim joins the cause

Posted on March 23, 2007 by Jawwad

It was a long drawn three year pitch but it finally happened in early February. Mohtashim Ahmed finally quit his day job and joined the cause at Alchemy. A veteran of Clear Cube, IBM and Inbox, Mr. Shim will be helping us scale up and get leaner, meanier and nastier.

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