Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

Send feedback

What is it?
Screenshots, up to 3 (optional)
or paste one with Ctrl+V

We use your email only to reply to you.
PA

Philip Augar

T3JournalistsThe investment industry and its firms

British author and historian who spent twenty years as a City equities broker at NatWest and Schroders and helped sell Schroders' investment bank to Citigroup; knighted in 2021.

SchrodersNatWestNatWest Markets

Philip Augar

The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism explains why British merchant banks sold themselves to American and European buyers after Big Bang, and what their owners misjudged about the capital intensity of the business they were in. The Greed Merchants and The Bank That Lived a Little examine fee structures and client conflicts inside integrated investment banks, the second through Barclays' decision to buy Lehman's American operations.

3 books of their own · 9 articles

Books 3Writing 9

Start here

  1. The Death of Gentlemanly CapitalismPhilip Augar, 2000
  2. The Greed MerchantsPhilip Augar, 2005
  3. The Bank That Lived a LittlePhilip Augar, 2018
The Death of Gentlemanly CapitalismThe Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism
T3 The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism
Philip Augar · 2000
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Big Bang handed the City's investment banks to foreign owners.

The Greed MerchantsThe Greed Merchants
T3 The Greed Merchants
Philip Augar · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the integrated investment bank extracts its economics from clients.

The Bank That Lived a Little
T3 The Bank That Lived a Little
Philip Augar · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Barclays' thirty-year attempt to become a global investment bank.

The Death of Gentlemanly CapitalismHow Big Bang handed the City's investment banks to foreign owners.2000T3–
The Greed MerchantsHow the integrated investment bank extracts its economics from clients.2005T3–
The Bank That Lived a LittleBarclays' thirty-year attempt to become a global investment bank.2018T3–

Tags

barclaysschroderslehman-brothersnatwestinvestment-bankingbankingbig-bangcity-of-londonunited-kingdomconflicts-of-interestfinancial-historyconsolidation