Editorial: You've got banks wrong

June 01, 2009

During the research for this year's Bankers' Counsel Poll, one respondent told me the story of going to a charity auction at the end of last year. "The compere had a whole set worked out around bankers getting fired and the clamp down on bonuses. It went down like a lead balloon. He couldn't have got the tone more wrong."

The anecdote was meant to illustrate how much the media and others have...

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