MTN Leak
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News reached Leak this week that yet another MTN comrade has fallen victim to the lure of marriage and Living Happily Ever After With The One You Love. Evie Christodoulidou, princess of the UBS MTN desk, has run off into the sunset this week with Michel Jahan, a highly eligible Frenchman.
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MTN-ers wept this week in despair at yet another privilege was cruelly ripped from their expense accounts. The ladies and gentlemen of the private placement market were mostly denied their annual jaunt to across the pond.
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Leak was this week besieged by a litany of complaints and outrage — as we have grown used to at this time of year. The cause, as ever, EuroWeek’s MTN awards: for some reason the most important categories have again been omitted.
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One of the daddies of the MTN market has finally had a real child. Leak is pleased to offer hearty congratulations to Chris Hill, whose progeny has finally appeared. Jessica Sophie Hill joined the MTN rug-rat party on Wednesday, a healthy girl weighing six pounds and two ounces. Leak can’t wait for her to start talking.
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The stuff of heroes could be seen on the streets of Kingston-upon-Thames last weekend.
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"Shove that in your puttable FRN," screamed one paranoid protester on Wednesday as violent riots shook the City. The cry was just one of many as angry mobs called for an immediate end to the UK government’s Asset Purchase Facility, further "quantitative easing" moves and state guarantees for bonds.
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The Apprentice returned to UK television this week, allowing bankers to take their minds off the firings over the last year that have caused such distress. Or at least now we’re able to watch people we don’t know get fired rather than people we do.
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On a trip to the theatre to see Sunset Boulevard recently, David Morland of UBS made the MTN-er celebrity sighting of the decade. Yes, he grabbed a glimpse of Limahl, 1980s superstar extraordinaire.
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Topical question: What did George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Christopher Columbus all have in common?
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Leak this week was promised tales of MTN debauchery as the market steeled their livers to re-enact the glory days of Glitnir’s Thorrablót. But the MTN-ers were mostly a no-show, leaving only BNP Paribas’s Chris Hill and Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s Jacques Lumb to prop up the bar with their Viking party hats on.
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