Ntombifuthi Taiwe, MAP, 2018

Precious memories came flooding back to me as I walked through the grounds of our Business School for the first time since I graduated in 1986. I remember very long days and late nights, I remember challenging exams and demanding case studies. Being both exhausted and exhilarated. My MBA changed my life and I will…

Tony Norton, MD of Standard Merchant Bank addressed our MBA class. He talked about merchant banking and corporate finance- stock exchanges, raising capital, mergers, acquisitions financial instruments, risk and reward, and corporate valuations. I knew definitively that I wanted to go into investment banking. When the first opportunity arose I fortuitously joined SMB. Most merchant…