Anyone have experience writing articles under your real name while working at a financial institution? I want to write explainer and informative articles on commercial banking on Medium (or similar platform). I work in commercial banking for a large national bank.
There's not much info about it readily available online and I selfishly think it will help me learn more as I research and write about it. I'm a little concerned about using my real name while an employee of the bank - not out of embarrassment but someone in HR (or some other part of the bank, compliance?) being upset about it.
I know the right answer is to ask my manager and go from there but wanted to see if anyone had anecdotal thoughts.
John Pierpont, bummer your thread hasn't had a response yet. Maybe one of these threads could point you in the right direction:
You're welcome.
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Make sure you include a disclaimer that all views are your own and are not endorsed by your employer. Would recommend not mentioning the name of your employer as well.
If you're FINRA/SEC licensed I think there are additional rules you should look into as well.
The disclaimer is a good idea. Thanks!
I'd definitely clear it with compliance/HR just to cover your bases. Even if it's just for fun I'm sure there could be something buried in the compliance/HR manual about having to disclose outside business or related activities or certain disclaimers you'd have to include (like the post above about being explicit to state it's not endorsed by your employer, etc.) that could potentially burn you.
Will definitely run the idea through HR/Compliance. My employee handbook is 1000+ pages long, guaranteed I missed something in there. It will help to get their opinion in writing anyways. Worst case, I use a pseudonym.
Best practice here IMO is to try to get permission from your employer in writing before you start, let them know of any additional comp you may receive, and also disclose in all write ups where there could be a conflict of interest, etc.
Hope this helps
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