I started with COSL (Citicorp Overseas Software Limited) in Mumbai in Feb 1989.
I started doing a securities processing system for Citibank in Amsterdam. In the intervening years I spent many years in Japan, UK, India, and the US. It has been decades now and the diversity has been increasing. Some trends that I see now include:
- Technology has become far more central in modern financial practice in terms of scale, reach, portability, speed, and complexity
- Finance has been inventing itself in drastic ways muddling through a variety of crises and challenges
- Finance has grown in developing countries in a far bigger way than we used to know in the 80s and 90s
- There have been many regulatory changes both liberal and of oversight
- Many organizations have changed beyond recognition due to global mergers and acquisitions
Given the growing complexity I find the need to keep in touch increasing at a rapid pace. This task is daunting and I need to keep notes (with my failing memory now!).
I thought it would be good to share these notes with anyone who would care to notice.
So this is the broad agenda. Despite plenty of grey hair I must humbly dispel any notion or claim to expertise. I do have some opinions and ideas which I would jot down here 'as is'
