An advert that has been posted by Additional Resources Limited requesting applications to be Head of Structured Products, Paris, France has drawn some instinctive conclusions.

Which banks do structured products and which of those are based in Paris? Hmm. Which one could it be?

We fired up our investigative thought process and listed the banks we know that fit this profile. But we couldn’t be certain, so we waded through the stream of detailed requirements and attributes – noting that whoever takes this job will have to do a lot of shaping and must possess a deep understanding of the Structured Products markets across Europe. The details were in a big, thick paragraph written as a wish list but they did not provide us with any more insight.

Luckily, the second, four-word long paragraph provided all the information we needed. It asked for a “Strong attention to detail”.

Rather smugly, we think we know which bank this is. But do you? Can you think of a bank that bases its Structured Products business in Paris and, for some reason, has decided to big up the need for strong attention to detail?