Ex of the City

The London Paper's City Boy columnist, who wrote anonymously about the dark side of the Square Mile, has been revealed today as a former analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort Bank. The columnist, Geraint Anderson, 35, was a joint team leader at the bank until he recently quit his £500,000-a-year job. He has written a book about his experiences. Anderson's London Paper columns revealed an ambivalence about his career, partly because his father is Labour peer Lord Anderson of Swansea. Anderson told the London Paper today: "I'd always been ambivalent about my career due to being brought up in a left-wing, religious household and the fact I was a former hippy. I'd gone into the City in 1996 with the intention of doing only five years but, like the bank robber in the film, I kept doing one last job." In the article, Anderson reveals he developed his rebellious streak early on. He was expelled from his Montessori nursery school aged four.