The life of an emerging markets banker

What makes being a banker in emerging markets different from working in the developed world? Nothing yet everything. The skills, the emphasis on relationships and increasingly the products on offer are all similar. Yet only someone who has vast experience of emerging markets would understand their quirks and idiosyncrasies, which make doing business in them very different from the US and western Europe. Newcomers, especially from the west, can find these countries bewildering, operating under unfamiliar rules and regulations. That doesn’t mean that these markets are inferior or laxer – often it’s the very opposite – just that they are different.