Stellar Book Review of Credit Risk Management - The Novel in The Asset Magazine

In the March 2015 edition of The Asset the Assistant Editor, Christoph Kober, reviews Credit Risk Management – The Novel (Part One).

Here is a short extract:

“In The Novel, Wells presents technical concepts in a manner that is enlightening to anyone interested in how oil majors and traders fuel the world economy. In the sometimes covert world of commodities, the book reveals how large oil majors can do business even with nefarious traders and national oil companies with erratic payment patterns.

Practical advice wrapped in lively accounts of how large commodity deals are brokered make the book a helpful guide not only to credit professionals but treasurers and financial directors as well.

But The Novel also has room for fiction. James “Jim” E Cricket, the head of the team of “creditphiles” at ShamOil, fancies more than just collateral when dealing with risky buyers. World peace is what he really strives for. Jim nearly brokers the smooth fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of Apartheid in a matter of just a few months.

The Novel recounts some of the most dramatic geopolitical events at the end of the 20th century – which of course proved to be watershed moments for the commodities industries as well. Fast forward two decades and geopolitical hotspots throughout the world again keep businesses on their toes. Although set in the 1990s, the solutions presented by Wells were in fact developed more recently, he says, and their applicability today adds to the book’s relevance.

Wells aims to reach an entirely different group of readers with The Novel – students and graduates undecided where to work. “Younger people looking for a career in finance are drawn to investment banking because of the money it offers. I have always found that working in business is much more exciting because real stuff moves as a result of your actions as a credit specialist. There are very few finance programmes that give students exposure to credit risk management in their courses. I hope The Novel can add to this education and show that managing customer and supplier risk in a real business is an exciting career opportunity.”

Credit Risk Management – The Novel, Part One (2013) is published by T3P LIMITED and available for purchase at Amazon.
ISBN: 978-0-9576279-2-5, 104 pages

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