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Leaving office: The misery of a long handover
There are few unpleasant things that can trump having to watch someone else take your job.
21 Jan 2021 -
Bankers brave multiple risks (for a drink)
The response of people to the coronavirus has been nothing short of inspiring. Not least bankers' creative solutions to carry on drinking. Taipan considers the best —and worst — options.
14 Jan 2021 -
Planes, trains and awful golf swings
Sometimes one gets a stark reminder that there are different levels of wealth. This realisation struck a good friend of mine recently, with terrifying implications.
07 Jan 2021 -
Taipan reflects on an extraordinary year
Well, dear readers, who could have guessed what this year would bring?
17 Dec 2020 -
Next year’s holiday plan: a vaccine tour
Can we just forget 2020 ever happened? Perhaps we should get our vaccines first. An entrepreneurial travel company is offering to help those of us at the back of the queue.
10 Dec 2020 -
Covid ruins dance clubs, DCM shindigs
In Hong Kong, it seems it only takes one septuagenarian ballroom dancer to cause a massive spike in coronavirus cases. But funding officials can be almost as dangerous.
03 Dec 2020 -
Saving the world, one angry guest at a time
It's funny what you start to miss after nearly a year without travel.
26 Nov 2020 -
A curse to be back in the office?
Some of us have got quite comfortable working from home — a bit too comfortable.
19 Nov 2020 -
The wrong sort of liquidity
Spare a thought for a young loans banker who recently told Taipan about his newfound freedom. I was drinking in Solas when the chap walked in on his own and ordered a Brooklyn Lager. Since we were the only two occupying the bar’s outside seating, we naturally started talking.
12 Nov 2020 -
US result is a champagne moment, but who for?
Few readers of this column will have been able to avoid the temptation this week to continually hit refresh, hoping for a morsel of news on the US election. Whether you’re red, blue or polka-dot, the zig and zag of the election results has been compelling theatre.
05 Nov 2020
