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title: Frontline Analysts Blog | Darren Sharma
description: "Darren has been a credit analyst in the City of London for 23 years (there were also all-too-brief postings to Paris and Buenos Aires, which made the man, as you can imagine). In 2005 he founded Frontline Analysts to train smart people around the world to be great capital markets analysts. \n\nHailing from Birmingham, Darren read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University."
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# Frontline Analysts Blog
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## Darren Sharma
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Darren has been a credit analyst in the City of London for 23 years (there were also all-too-brief postings to Paris and Buenos Aires, which made the man, as you can imagine). In 2005 he founded Frontline Analysts to train smart people around the world to be great capital markets analysts. Hailing from Birmingham, Darren read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University.
Find me on:
### Recent Posts
[](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/how-to-sell-research-to-investment-managers-in-a-mifid-ii-world)
## [How to sell research to investment managers in a MIFID II world](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/how-to-sell-research-to-investment-managers-in-a-mifid-ii-world)
[Darren Sharma](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/author/darren-sharma) 07/12/17 11:33
It looks very much as if MIFID II is happening, and that it will cover all the sell-side and almost all the buy-side. We will see the delegated acts paper this month and it’s possible that credit...
[Read More](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/how-to-sell-research-to-investment-managers-in-a-mifid-ii-world)
[](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/near-shore-location)
## [Choosing a near-shore location: Dharma at Big Sur](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/near-shore-location)
[Darren Sharma](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/author/darren-sharma) 14/06/17 11:52
Where can you efficiently locate offices for risk management and capital markets analysts? Whether you are looking at near-shore or off-shore locations, or indeed which corner of your trading floor...
[Read More](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/near-shore-location)
[](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/life-is-elsewhere)
## [Life is Elsewhere, Życie jest gdzie indziej, जीवन कहीं और है](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/life-is-elsewhere)
[Darren Sharma](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/author/darren-sharma) 22/05/17 16:30
These days, when it comes to off-shoring thinking tasks, a lot of banks are feeling pretty jaded with wherever their off-shoring has been done. Usually that’s India. Off-shoring is quite often a...
[Read More](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/life-is-elsewhere)
[](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/why-wonkishness-matters-for-profits)
## [Why wonkishness matters for budgets - a note for CFOs, COOs & Procurement](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/why-wonkishness-matters-for-profits)
[Darren Sharma](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/author/darren-sharma) 31/03/17 16:26
We all know that offshore analysts are hugely efficient for budgets. Unhappily, local research and risk analysts tend to resist increasing their usage. Can we get past this with full buy-in from...
[Read More](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/why-wonkishness-matters-for-profits)
[](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/guide-for-risk-managers-part-2-planning-your-cost-efficient-team-augmentation)
## [Guide for risk managers part 2: planning your cost-efficient team augmentation](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/guide-for-risk-managers-part-2-planning-your-cost-efficient-team-augmentation)
[Darren Sharma](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/author/darren-sharma) 20/10/16 19:37
You’re a risk manager who has been mandated to plan cost-efficient augmentation of your team. You’ve opened a file, done save as, what next? Read how to move from *tabula rasa* to a plan.
[Read More](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/guide-for-risk-managers-part-2-planning-your-cost-efficient-team-augmentation)
[](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/first-steps-for-risk-managers-who-have-to-offshore-or-augment-their-teams)
## [First steps for risk managers who have to offshore or augment their teams](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/first-steps-for-risk-managers-who-have-to-offshore-or-augment-their-teams)
[Darren Sharma](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/author/darren-sharma) 03/10/16 16:23
Costs need to come down in banking, so it’s inevitable that the CEO or COO will knock on the door of risk management and mandate offshoring or augmentation. What are the fundamental concepts you need?
[Read More](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/first-steps-for-risk-managers-who-have-to-offshore-or-augment-their-teams)
[](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/home-front-managing-home-centre-managers-when-augmenting)
## [The home front: managing home centre managers when augmenting](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/home-front-managing-home-centre-managers-when-augmenting)
[Darren Sharma](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/author/darren-sharma) 19/08/16 08:41
When introducing or upgrading an augmented research team, banks, asset managers and risk managers often hope that their home centre teams will automatically work out how to collaborate with these...
[Read More](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/home-front-managing-home-centre-managers-when-augmenting)
[](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/how-to-convert-lame-outsourcing-into-energising-outsourcing)
## [How to convert lame outsourcing into energised outsourcing](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/how-to-convert-lame-outsourcing-into-energising-outsourcing)
[Darren Sharma](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/author/darren-sharma) 08/07/16 11:48
Here are two things which I often hear from analysts who work with offshore resources, and I’ve been wondering how they can be consistent
- My offshore analysts are pretty poor. I have to train them...
[Read More](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/how-to-convert-lame-outsourcing-into-energising-outsourcing)
[](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/why-does-frontline-exist-whats-unique-or-special-about-you)
## [What makes Frontline unique](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/why-does-frontline-exist-whats-unique-or-special-about-you)
[Darren Sharma](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/author/darren-sharma) 20/06/16 10:17
I was recently asked this in a meeting with a senior team from a global bank.
It's a great question and to answer it I had to go right back to beginning when I founded Frontline Analysts in 2005....
[Read More](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/why-does-frontline-exist-whats-unique-or-special-about-you)
[](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/frontline-analysts-in-recent-reuters-article)
## [Frontline Analysts cited as the partner for the future of banking](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/frontline-analysts-in-recent-reuters-article)
[Darren Sharma](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/author/darren-sharma) 03/06/16 08:33
When thought leaders think how banks will manage costs in the future, they think of Frontline Analysts. Reuters cited us in this new article:. [You can read the piece here.](http://www.breakingviews.com/it%E2%80%99s-time-investment-banking-had-an-easyjet/21249239.article)
[Read More](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/frontline-analysts-in-recent-reuters-article)
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## Darren Sharma
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Darren has been a credit analyst in the City of London for 23 years (there were also all-too-brief postings to Paris and Buenos Aires, which made the man, as you can imagine). In 2005 he founded Frontline Analysts to train smart people around the world to be great capital markets analysts. Hailing from Birmingham, Darren read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University.
Find me on:
### Recent Posts
[](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/how-to-sell-research-to-investment-managers-in-a-mifid-ii-world)
## [How to sell research to investment managers in a MIFID II world](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/how-to-sell-research-to-investment-managers-in-a-mifid-ii-world)
[Darren Sharma](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/author/darren-sharma) 07/12/17 11:33
It looks very much as if MIFID II is happening, and that it will cover all the sell-side and almost all the buy-side. We will see the delegated acts paper this month and it’s possible that credit...
[Read More](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/how-to-sell-research-to-investment-managers-in-a-mifid-ii-world)
[](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/near-shore-location)
## [Choosing a near-shore location: Dharma at Big Sur](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/near-shore-location)
[Darren Sharma](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/author/darren-sharma) 14/06/17 11:52
Where can you efficiently locate offices for risk management and capital markets analysts? Whether you are looking at near-shore or off-shore locations, or indeed which corner of your trading floor...
[Read More](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/near-shore-location)
[](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/life-is-elsewhere)
## [Life is Elsewhere, Życie jest gdzie indziej, जीवन कहीं और है](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/life-is-elsewhere)
[Darren Sharma](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/author/darren-sharma) 22/05/17 16:30
These days, when it comes to off-shoring thinking tasks, a lot of banks are feeling pretty jaded with wherever their off-shoring has been done. Usually that’s India. Off-shoring is quite often a...
[Read More](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/life-is-elsewhere)
[](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/why-wonkishness-matters-for-profits)
## [Why wonkishness matters for budgets - a note for CFOs, COOs & Procurement](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/why-wonkishness-matters-for-profits)
[Darren Sharma](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/author/darren-sharma) 31/03/17 16:26
We all know that offshore analysts are hugely efficient for budgets. Unhappily, local research and risk analysts tend to resist increasing their usage. Can we get past this with full buy-in from...
[Read More](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/why-wonkishness-matters-for-profits)
[](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/guide-for-risk-managers-part-2-planning-your-cost-efficient-team-augmentation)
## [Guide for risk managers part 2: planning your cost-efficient team augmentation](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/guide-for-risk-managers-part-2-planning-your-cost-efficient-team-augmentation)
[Darren Sharma](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/author/darren-sharma) 20/10/16 19:37
You’re a risk manager who has been mandated to plan cost-efficient augmentation of your team. You’ve opened a file, done save as, what next? Read how to move from *tabula rasa* to a plan.
[Read More](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/guide-for-risk-managers-part-2-planning-your-cost-efficient-team-augmentation)
[](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/first-steps-for-risk-managers-who-have-to-offshore-or-augment-their-teams)
## [First steps for risk managers who have to offshore or augment their teams](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/first-steps-for-risk-managers-who-have-to-offshore-or-augment-their-teams)
[Darren Sharma](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/author/darren-sharma) 03/10/16 16:23
Costs need to come down in banking, so it’s inevitable that the CEO or COO will knock on the door of risk management and mandate offshoring or augmentation. What are the fundamental concepts you need?
[Read More](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/first-steps-for-risk-managers-who-have-to-offshore-or-augment-their-teams)
[](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/home-front-managing-home-centre-managers-when-augmenting)
## [The home front: managing home centre managers when augmenting](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/home-front-managing-home-centre-managers-when-augmenting)
[Darren Sharma](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/author/darren-sharma) 19/08/16 08:41
When introducing or upgrading an augmented research team, banks, asset managers and risk managers often hope that their home centre teams will automatically work out how to collaborate with these...
[Read More](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/home-front-managing-home-centre-managers-when-augmenting)
[](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/how-to-convert-lame-outsourcing-into-energising-outsourcing)
## [How to convert lame outsourcing into energised outsourcing](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/how-to-convert-lame-outsourcing-into-energising-outsourcing)
[Darren Sharma](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/author/darren-sharma) 08/07/16 11:48
Here are two things which I often hear from analysts who work with offshore resources, and I’ve been wondering how they can be consistent
- My offshore analysts are pretty poor. I have to train them...
[Read More](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/how-to-convert-lame-outsourcing-into-energising-outsourcing)
[](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/why-does-frontline-exist-whats-unique-or-special-about-you)
## [What makes Frontline unique](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/why-does-frontline-exist-whats-unique-or-special-about-you)
[Darren Sharma](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/author/darren-sharma) 20/06/16 10:17
I was recently asked this in a meeting with a senior team from a global bank.
It's a great question and to answer it I had to go right back to beginning when I founded Frontline Analysts in 2005....
[Read More](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/why-does-frontline-exist-whats-unique-or-special-about-you)
[](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/frontline-analysts-in-recent-reuters-article)
## [Frontline Analysts cited as the partner for the future of banking](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/frontline-analysts-in-recent-reuters-article)
[Darren Sharma](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/author/darren-sharma) 03/06/16 08:33
When thought leaders think how banks will manage costs in the future, they think of Frontline Analysts. Reuters cited us in this new article:. [You can read the piece here.](http://www.breakingviews.com/it%E2%80%99s-time-investment-banking-had-an-easyjet/21249239.article)
[Read More](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/frontline-analysts-in-recent-reuters-article)
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