MTN Leak

The mystical land of Iceland has offered countless treats in the many years that Íslandsbanki has invited bankers to Discover Iceland, and this year was no exception. Whales, a treasure hunt and ridiculously powerful speedboats were all on the agenda — but the choice of music really stood out.

With the English summer already over and the sweltering weather apparently gone, reports are coming in that MTN aficionados decided to chase the Mediterranean climate, but got lost. The bankers seem to have collectively got on the wrong flight. As you read this they find themselves in Iceland.

Thanks to our inability to read a news report properly, the Leak team was bubbling with excitement that next week’s Discover Iceland would be themed on Silvio Berlusconi’s legendary Bunga Bunga parties.

Citi bankers showed themselves to be among the most sociable in the market this week after MTN head Amaury Gossé cut his holiday short simply to make a lunch date with Leak. Well, we assume that’s what happened.

Worries surfaced in the MTN world this week that the export of English words to far flung corners of the globe might soon include some of the poorest prose in the history of the language.

With holiday season in full flow and other colleagues out of the office, poor Vincenzo Botta found himself alone on Citi’s desk on Monday.

There is an air of anticipation and trepidation at Leak Towers this week, as a meeting with a former — and particularly trendy — mysterious Italian MTN figure looms.

With plenty of reshuffling among MTN teams in recent weeks we felt we should honour Citi’s latest recruit in Japan — Tezuka “Tex” Masayoshi — by bringing our faithful readers our own version of a famous 1990s romantic comedy drama series: Tex and the Citi.

As bookmakers put 11-10 odds on Germany to beat Argentina in the World Cup final, word of mouth among MTN bankers is supporting more German ‘Müller-ing’, with strong predictions that nothing will be coming out of over confident German issuers next week as they all nurse hangovers from celebrations scheduled to start on Friday July 11 (we also heard they are ahead of schedule in their funding programmes, but who knows what to believe?).

The summer is here in London and for bankers of the MTN world that means one thing: the wrestle is on for lunching spots that offer a brief glimpse of coveted sunshine in the middle of the city.

Festival season is upon us and trendy MTN teams are breaking out their wellies and preparing for the brisk temperatures that inevitably accompany any attempts at sleeping in a field in the UK during the summer. But one MTN banker has found the key to keeping toasty if the weather turns bad — boy band themed camping equipment.

Supporting a team in the World Cup is known to cause emotional trauma, but UBS’s Aya Suzuki has found an ingenious way to avoid sudden shocks when following England, her adopted team.