MTN Leak

There was a fair degree of nostalgia this week as Leak caught up with Mitsubishi UFJ’s David Morland in the opulent and reverential surroundings of the City's Ludgate Hill.

A Kensington mansion, varying qualities of Movember moustaches and a banker-on-banker man-crush. What else could this be but Kommunalbanken’s annual reception at the Norwegian ambassador’s residence?

Tokai Tokyo’s Pav Sagoo might not be quite at the heartthrob level of Hollywood’s Matthew McConaughey, but when it comes to adventures in dangerous places the MTN man leaves the actor far behind.

The cards have arrived, the lucky few (hundred?) chosen and all that’s left is to prepare livers and make sure the lounge suits are freshened up for the opening shindig in the MTN Christmas party season.

There are many ways to welcome a team member from far flung shores to London — a round of English ales, a visit to the Tower of London or even a trip to a Premier League game. But the Société Générale team decided that the UK is best showcased by offering up a Mexican flavour.

Deep down below the sea Smit Acharya swims happily. The BNP Paribas MTN dynamo is looking at fish in the Indian Ocean as we speak — or as we write and you read, more accurately.

In an exciting development — perhaps unprecedented in MTNs, or at least it hasn’t happened for a very long time — Leak is about to discover the answer to one of the market’s best kept secrets.

The best and brightest in capital markets media turned out for Société Générale's legendary quiz night on Wednesday, this year held at McQueen bar in sunny Shoreditch.

While the financial world has been enduring lay-offs and that ugly word “downsizing” at every turn over the last few years, Commerzbank’s Andrew Nicola has been fighting the tide by producing an army of mini-MTNers.

There is panic on the streets of Luton, or at least there should be. This weekend the London satellite town will host a sporting clash of minor magnitude: Luton Vagrants versus Luton Others.

With just 96 shopping days left until Christmas and a sleepy market, the topic of some MTN desks’ conversation had already turned towards organising festive drinks earlier this week.

After three years away in the desolate East (well, Hong Kong) Frenchman Edouard Freton has for some reason returned to Europe, although he couldn’t quite make it all the way home.