What are some of the professional/quasi-social norms/conventions in British investment banking email correspondence that may not be very typical in email communication among bankers in America, continental Europe or elsewhere in the world? I imagine there may be a few subtle unwritten rules
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No one gives a shit. Half the floor in any UK bank is continental European.
Just be professional that's all. Your MD is probably gonna email you in poorly spelled one liners typed.from an iPhone.
-Don't be a bloody (pronounced "Bluh-He") wanker (pronounced "Wank-Ah")
-Remember that fanny means something entirely different in the UK than it does in the States
-They aren't fries, they're "chips", and they are most definitely not French
-Pants are what you wear under your trousers
Source: English mother
None really. Same as everywhere else. Keep emails punchy, don’t email your MD saying “bruv”
Follow up question, I hear that in Britain, you never use "sir" to refer to superiors or superior strangers (say an MD you're networking with or MD where you work) because the British reserve "sir" for knights. Is there truth in that?
Elsewhere like Africa (& US apparently), you use sir for male superiors; would it be weird to say "Good day sir" to a UK MD?
I've had to network with "good day" alone & I feel weird (as you always add "sir"/ma in African culture)
I do get where you're coming from but do not call any MD, or senior, sir/ma/Mr/Mrs or any other honorific. In the UK that would be weird. Call them by their name, we're all adults now.
Doesn't really have anything to do with knights as sir and miss is used to address teachers in school too. It's just that in the UK there is not really a culture of additional and tangible respect for authority figures that requires you to do anything like call them sir or ma.
Oh alright, that was informative, thank God I didn't address MDs as "sir"
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