MTN Leak

While most bankers in London this week were probably celebrating St Patrick’s day on Tuesday, or at least wishing they could be, one fellow from the MTN world had his eye firmly focused on the southern hemisphere.

‘No reservations taken’ — the words send a chill down the spine of anyone who likes to be organised or likes to be certain of where they are going to be eating at any given time.

Fans of decaying meat and miscellaneous testicles would have been in their element last week at Íslandsbanki’s annual Icelandic cultural celebration Thorrablót.

Forget President's Day and Chinese New Year — it seems that a different celebration was the most observed in the MTN market this week: Pancake Day.

When most of London’s bankers fancy a spot of lunch they can walk in a 500 metre radius of their office and find options from five, six (maybe even seven?) continents.

David Morland, international MTN banker and part-time man of mystery.

If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the SG-Team.

There are few things banks like to tout more than their cross-asset credentials, but Leak has learned of a pair of bankers with a cross-asset relationship.

Just when the MTN market thought it was safe to go back in their inboxes, a very unsettling and scary email was waiting.

Being the first full working week of the year myriad throbbing heads and bulging waistlines have marked the start of 2015.

Although the Christmas season is a time for joy, this story begins with a tale of woe.

The younger MTN generation might think that Christmas is all about festive jumper days and secret Santas, but for the more seasoned crowd, it’s all about more traditional, well, traditions. And one MTN banker is about to be living one.