Under the counter

A stretch in Sing (sing)Isn't it amazing how quickly the years pass? That's especially true if you, like me, spend three months of every 12 in a drunken stupor, at least as many of those hungover and the other six pretending to be dead for tax purposes. Anyway, to my mind it seems like only yesterday that everyone was jetting off to Boca for the first big derivatives event of the year and yet suddenly autumn is approaching (unless you're in the Southern hemisphere - more on that later) and FOW Singapore and FIA Chicago are almost on us again. The first of those shows kicks off a matter of days from when I write this, and from what I've been hearing here in London it seems like a horde of industry types will be descending on the city state with their hearts set on nothing more than eating, boozing...