110 not out

Yes, This is the 110th CIOBS blog. Who would have thought it?

A very warm welcome to your favourite blog.

It has course been a rather turbulent week in the Financial Services Industry and all events have been covered in great detail in the media, and we have some coverage of the week's earlier events in our weekly news podcast.

Yesterday here at CIOBS we had the pleasure of introducing a group of new students to their first experience of their Institute by way of an Introductory day.

It was a pleasure to meet you all and I wish you well in your studies. The students will be doing the Chartered Banker qualification or one of our Advanced Diplomas.

Next Wednesday brings another new group of students and they will be studying for one of the Certificate qualifications.

Next Tuesday night sees the final of the Deloitte Financial Services Rising Star Awards taking place here in Edinburgh and I can exclusively reveal that Raymond Brown will be playing a very high profile part in the proceedings!

I am sure it will be worth attending for that alone.

Good luck to all the finalists. We shall have a full report on the proceedings in next week's blog.

Look out Northern Ireland and particular Belfast.

The high profile person that is Raymond Brown will be in your city on Friday 26th September. I know that you are used to high profile visitors in Belfast. President Clinton amongst others in recent years and I am sure you will be rolling out the red carpet for your esteemed visitor.

Please make sure when you roll it back up that Mr. Brown is not inside it!

Michael (Keeping a low profile at present)