And Miles isn’t the only fiscal TikTokker. There’s also handsome Seb Dubya, a British city slicker who’s turned the commute from Hamburg (where he lives from Thursday to Monday) to Canary Wharf into an extreme sport.
And there’s Justin Farrance, a dashing, LGTBQ+ junior lawyer at A&O Shearman, who showcases snippets of his glamorous life in finance such as conferences in Budapest, where he schmoozes industry heads wearing a Burberry trench coat. Or ‘downtime’ in Paris, where he flashes his chiselled abs and gold chain in the Jardin du Luxembourg. Between calls, he does marathon training, clad in Gymshark, AirPods in – probably listening to Ted Talks (he’s done one, after all). These social solicitors know how to work hard and play hard. (Some American firms in the City are now reportedly starting newly hired solicitors off on salaries of £180,000 a year.)
Speaking of AirPods, those, and a copy of James Clear’s Atomic Habits, are what all the finance bros carry, according to satirical TikTokker and Old Etonian Henry Hayes, who used to work in sales and still has a gaggle of pals who work in finance. ‘I used to circle through the City every day and see them all in their gilets, guzzling protein drinks, smacking back neck oils and popping nico- tine gum,’ he tells Tatler. “They’re easy to tease, and they can laugh at themselves.’