Yep, that 'brash, suited FT-carrying idiot' has been outed. Writing this last couple of years for the londonpaper under cover of 'City Boy', he has now revealed his true identity. Cityboy spent the last 8 or so years of his City career at Dresdner Kleinwort, where he was a top-rated research analyst.

Cityboy

Name:  Geraint Anderson

About Me:  Writer, traveller, notorious time-waster, party animal, swordsman

Work Info:  1994-6: Secretary at Imperial College, security guard at Wimbledon and import/exporter of 'ethnic good' (e.g. market trader). Research analyst at four different banks (1996-2008). Now... a writer I suppose.

Political Views:  Trotskyite revolutionary... kind of

Interests:  Love, sex, death... what else is there?

Likes:  Love, sex... not so keen on the death bit. Happy endings - especially at Thai massage parlours

Dislikes:  Thatcherite free-market economics, tedious social conventions, people who take themselves too seriously, mustard gas

Activities:  Fomenting revolution, partying like its 1999 no matter what year it is, hanging out at Thai massage parlours

Favourite Music:  House music (especially cheesy crowd-pleasers), funk, 60s, classical, Belgian nosebleed industrial techno

Favourite Movies:  Scarface, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, The Man With Two Brains, Shaving Ryan's Privates

Favourite Books:  As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S Thompson), The Bible (God)

Favourite TV Shows:  Blackadder, Scooby Doo and Curb Your Enthusiasm

Favourite Quotes:  'He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man' - Samuel Johnson (that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it) and 'You're only young once but you can be immature all your life, Geraint' and 'Only boring people get bored, Geraint' (both my mum)


Cityboy's CV

1972 - Born in London, the youngest of three sons of Swansea East MP Donald Anderson and his wife Dorothy

1977 - Attends Fox School in Notting Hill Gate

1981 - Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith

1990-91 - Spends his gap year backpacking in Asia and Australia

1991-94 - Studies history at Queens' College, Cambridge

1994-95 - Another stint in India and seriously considers carving out a living selling ethnic knick-knacks

1995-96 - Studies for his MA at the University of Sussex and produces a dissertation sexily entitled French Workers and Students in May 1968, A Study of an Ambiguous Relationship

1996 - Junior Analyst, Utilities, ABN Amro

1997-99 - Société Générale

1999-2000 - Commerzbank

2000-2008 - Dresdner Kleinwort. Named top stock-picker two years running, his team becomes number two in the utilities sector and City Boy is personally judged the fourth highest-ranked analyst (out of around 100). By the time he resigned from Dresdner Kleinwort, he had become a joint team leader

2008-present - Embarks on a new career as a writer and broadcaster. His book about City life - 'Cityboy: Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile' - is published next week. He is working on a documentary about the City and his new column for thelondonpaper, called Boy in the City, starts next week.

A spokesperson for Dresdner Kleinwort said: 'We don't comment on works of fiction as a matter of policy, but wish Geraint well with his new career'.

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