Editor’s letter

Lively debate greeted the publication of Credit magazine’s Hall of Fame issue in February, as the market reacted to our pick of the most influential men and women in the industry. Enthusiasm was not limited to the top 50 themselves – although some did view recognition of their achievements as a clear sign of Credit’s incisive grasp of the market.

Indeed, never before has Credit been inundated with such a prodigious volume of requests for repeat issues – coming in one notable case from the proud father of one of the Hall of Famers. Similarly the editor’s inbox was flooded with emails from those who had not made the list. One correspondent reported how he was “gutted” to have been omitted and asked how much inclusion had cost the lucky 50. Needless to say inclusion was based purely on merit.

Some attention was a little overzealous. One media company, which shall remain nameless, sent a cut-and-pasted version of the Hall of Fame to its clients. Unfortunately the offending party failed to match the photographs illustrating the list with the correct names, resulting in the unlikely sight of Blythe Masters, JPMorgan’s (very feminine) chief financial officer, labelled as Lee McGinty, the (not so feminine) head of credit derivatives strategy at the bank. We reprint both photos here to clear up any confusion caused by the mistake.

Nikki Marmery
Editor
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Letters to the editor

Oiling the wheels

Madam,

I’m stunned at the oversight. I assume it was a printing error that omitted the first page of the Hall of Fame in Credit’s February issue, but am happy to avoid further embarrassment by nominating the Headhunting Industry for inclusion in the ‘Readers Choice’.

We altruistically help other people’s careers for no (significant) material gain, just for the pleasure of knowing we have brought two parties together in a beautiful working relationship (pending the first round of unguaranteed bonus discussions). Naturally, we owe some debt of gratitude to those banks that have hired aggressively, immediately before cutting back aggressively, prior to rebuilding aggressively. Without you, we would have so much less opportunity to oil the wheels of the credit markets.

We headhunters prefer to remain anonymous but ask the next guy that approaches you with a compelling idea at a house “serious about credit” if they penned this note.

Yours truly,

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