Category: Alchemy stuff

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It took five months to break through the Technorati Rating system but earlier this month Learning Corporate Finance finally became a Technorati Top 100 Finance blog. Couldn’t have done this without our content team (Agnes, Nabil and Adnan) and our super editor (Uzma) or our designer (Nida Faizi) or without the marvelous technological platform of…

Jehan reviews the Corporate Finance E-Education at In the line of wire and calls it a finance for the totally insane. More details at her blog where she uses finance, torturous experience, punishment, difficult childhoods and interest rate options all in the same paragraph and manages to crack a Greek joke too at the same…

When the Turkish airline shuttle drops you off at the Radisson Blu airport hotel at 10 pm at night, you think that you have been dumped at yet another airport hotel. But that is before your monring walk when you discover that you are right next to a Metro station and the Metro station is…

Sultan Ahmet Suites, Nida’s selection of a place for us to crash for four days was perfect in many ways. Lots of space for four kids to romp around, central location (the Sultan Ahmet Mosque, Hagia Sofia, Topkapi Palace and cheap as well as expensive food were all a short walk away). Unlike a hotel…

Antalya the city has many faces. Its warm in the Sun and cooler in the shade. The first face that we saw was suburban Antalya, outside the humdrum of the old city, the markets, the grand bazar. Set besides Duden park it was a modern retirement home for the Turkish expat community with a small…

The Upper Duden Waterfall or Duden Selale in Turkish is quite close to Lara Beach, right next to the riverside Duden Park (which was right next to the Karahan Family home, our base station for the next five days). We were lucky that Hasan’s father took us to the waterfall park on day one so that…

So you are flat broke and have been working crazy hours for the last two years. Things have been really difficult and while a vacation and break from the madness I know as work-life balance would be nice, it is certainly not something on my mind or in my budget. After all I owe an…

So after being on the road for about 15 years, it finally happened last night. With 3 kids in tow, Turkish airline bumped us off our scheduled confirmed booked flight to Karachi. Interesting experience that needs to be written about in a lot more detail.

10 years ago the risk function at a mid size regional bank was complex enough. Recently though when we put together our risk solution matrix, I realized how complex our world as risk managers has become. Gone are the days when we could survive in silos or get away with just being a credit or…