... a broker or to ‘go direct’ to another bank was a matter of circumstance as well as individual preference and taste Each method had advantages and disadvantages Calling up other banks was usually... of traders I found that I was actually rather good at managing traders and handling all the other aspects of the managerial job The most important of these was overseeing the automation of the... one-woman tsunami of chat and charm who had worked her way up from the back office she had joined aged 16 Perpetually tanned and habitually encrusted in a medieval monarch’s ransom of gold, diamonds