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More than half a decade after the crisis, one bank has seen fit to make sure its compliance professionals actually know what compliance is and how to be a professional at it.

Now that the Bank for International Settlements has made its feelings clear about the global use of prolonged monetary easing by central banks (‘Save yourselves! Stop now!’), a particular incident at last week’s Euromoney Global Borrowers and Investors Forum 2014 in London seems particularly apt.

Public relations exec Brandon Ashcraft is moving on from spreading the good news about Barclays to spreading a different kind of Good News.

Ever taken one of those ‘Are you a good lover?’ tests you find in magazines the likes of Cosmopolitan? (You shake your head in disgust, but we know you have).

Okay, so maybe there’s no overexposed photos of him coming out of a nightclub in Ibiza on the front pages of The Sun and there’s no features in Timeout about his upcoming album, but for at least a moment Mario Draghi was almost a pop star.

After an evening of fine wine, dining and prizegiving, the team at GlobalCapital Towers still haven’t had enough of glitzy awards events. So here we present the alternative GlobalCapital Bond Awards.

The City’s best and brightest will gather on Wednesday for GlobalCapital’s annual bond awards, but following a breathtaking revelation last week journalists at GC Towers are mulling a last minute addition to the list of awards: most impressive business card, with one DCM banker already comfortably in the lead.

RBC Capital Markets’ Stuart McGregor revealed himself to be a lover of prog rock last week, after telling one of our moles that he was off to see the legendary Yes at the Royal Albert Hall on May 8.

Spending most of its waking hours walking around the City looking for the merest hint of a scoop, Blog is well aware that the Square Mile is the world’s greatest magnet for people, ideas and capital. But it’s also pretty adept at importing holidays too.

Nicky James Darrant is well known for quite a few things in the bond markets....

In the epic world of SSAs, the humble nature of the clearing system often gets overlooked. But while everyone was talking about Greece’s statuesque deal, and the role played by Herculean heroes like Deutsche Bank’s Håkan Wohlin, it seems that the financial plumbing had a bigger effect than first thought.

Roll up to Bollywood for charity, while RBC drinks Blog under the table.