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-[[File:Olly B.jpg|200px|thumb|left|The JC yesterday. In the ''Big Easy'', man.]]
+[[File:penry.jpg|200px|thumb|left|The mild-mannered penry, in his day-job as acting deputy associate general assistant at [[Wickliffe Hampton Securites Inc.]]]]
-Well, after ten years I suppose I should at least own up to who I am, so here goes: I’m Olly. (in Persian, “[[الی]]”. Geddit?) Interests, if they’re not obvious from this wiki, are financial services law, language, writing, guitars, cricket, books and mountains. And wikis: MediaWiki, which this site is written on, is the cleverest software, and I have learned a lot about it in the last decade.
+Well, after ten years running this site my spouse told me I should at least own up to who I am, but bugger that. It’s no real secret and anyone with a basic yen for online surveillance will be able to work it out, but you may know me as mild-mannered Penry. Until recently I was second in charge of checking that the firm’s name was spelled correctly on the [[football team]] at [[Wickliffe Hampton Securities Inc.]], London Branch, but I eventually summoned the guts to leave that behind and now I’m in a legal department of one. It’s fun.
-While writing this wiki I’ve practised commercial law in NZ and the UK for 27 years, mostly inhouse at places I will not mention to protect their reputations as much as mine. I put in a stretch as a film and book reviewer — which I was pretty good at, as you will see from my [http://olly-buxton.blogspot.com/ fan mail] — written a couple of books (the first one, '''''[https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B078LMG24Q The Montenegro Sanction]''''', under the pen name [[Hunter Barkley]], you can buy for a fiver from Amazon), released an album of angsty-but-ironic rock music ([[Dangerboy]]), played with my buddies in the same cool band, [[Supercheese]], for longer than either the Beatles or Led Zeppelin managed, and drunk a ''lot'' of wine, all while being supported by my super-talented better half — whom I will spare the ignominy of naming — but she is a world-famous<ref>In our house, anyway.</ref> bridge teacher, artist and the most patient spouse on the planet.
+But what I do have is 30 years’ experience as a commercial lawyer, in New Zealand (for a bit) and in the UK (for the rest). I’ve worked at law firms big and small, and three kinds of investment bank: American, British and Swiss, and now I work at a scrappy little start up. As you may deduce I have specialised, over the years, in [[Structured note|structured products]], [[Repackaging|repackagings]], credit, fund derivatives, fund solutions, [[Commodity derivatives|commodities]], [[Negotiation|ISDA negotiations]], [[Cash equity|cash equities]], [[equity derivatives]], [[Synthetic equity swap|synthetic equity derivatives]], [[prime brokerage]], [[securities financing]], and [[emissions]] derivatives. Some of what I’ve found out makes up the useful bits of this site.
-The [[Jolly Contrarian]] started out life in 2012, as ''AmwellClear'', as a fun way way of remembering the difference between {{isdaprov|Loss}}, {{isdaprov|Market Quotation}}s, {{isdaprov|Close Out Amount}}s and {{isdaprov|Unpaid Amount}}s and just kept growing.
+I like to [[Off-piste|ski]] and play [[Stratocaster|guitar]], but not at the same time. Also, [[cricket]].
+The [[Jolly Contrarian]] started out life in 2012, as “''AmwellClear''”, as a fun way way of remembering the difference between {{isdaprov|Loss}}, {{isdaprov|Market Quotation}}s, {{isdaprov|Close Out Amount}}s and {{isdaprov|Unpaid Amount}}s and just kept growing.
 SEO folk: before you write to offer tips on how to differentiate the [[JC]] from its competition, remember:  when you write satire about derivatives ''THERE '''IS''' NO GODDAMN COMPETITION''.
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