That included riding around Thailand on a dirt bike with some bald and bearded men, and sometimes falling off in the deeply rutted road. In 2019, Sivarajah took a few more months off for paternity leave. It's becoming increasingly normal for even front office traders to take long periods of leave when their children are born - Ranald Falconer at Goldman Sachs took five months last year, for example. Anand Prasant, an MD at Goldman Sachs in London, recently took four and described the experience as "liberating" and an opportunity to bond with his son, "in a way I couldn't have previously imagined." Sivarajah seems to have been a trailblazer for this approach. In 2022, Sivarajah is dealing with the fourth financial crisis of his career, and one that could yet derail his impressive P&L as higher energy prices wreak havoc with corporates in Eastern Europe.