February Fun

A Friday again and time for a blog from the CIOBS blog team. Well that’s January gone, but I fear that the awful weather will remain. Not good news for the golfers amongst you.

Talking of sport, a very warm welcome to the many rugby supporters who will be visiting Edinburgh over the next few weeks. I read a report this morning stating that the visitors to the RBS 6 nations will inject £60 Million into the Scottish economy with the largest proportion of that sum going into the economy of Edinburgh – Yipee!!!

On the CIOBS front I can reveal to all you potential Chartered Bankers that the assignments for the new Investment subject will be available on the downloads section of our website very shortly. We have had a few enquiries about this subject and UK Financial Services also.

Chartered Banker revision days are at the final planning stages and dates for this will also be available on the website soon.

My thanks go the mystery persons who have agreed to provide us with assistance in March. No names, but thank you very much indeed to Mr X and Mrs Y

Congratulations to the two young men who passed their examinations here at CIOBS this morning. The looks on their faces as they left Drumsheugh were a picture. Take it easy on the celebrations lads, remember you are professionals!

I must make mention of the weekly podcast. This week’s edition can be found at http://www.ciobs.org.uk/about/what_podcasts.cfm. There are also a couple of “back issues” available to those of you who have missed the recent items.

The podcast has been very interesting to do and the feedback has also been very interesting, in fact here is a selection of some of the comments received.

“I love it” Mr A, Kirkcaldy

“It certainly gets me out of bed in the morning” A Riser, Glasgow

“We get all our news from the podcast” J. Bird, Glasgow

“Love the accents guys” B. Wylie, Glasgow

So it is highly recommended.

I hope the week has been good to you and that the weekend is enjoyable

Michael ( Thanks for the feedback guys, the cheques are in the post! Is that ethical?)