Oi, Financial Services wallahs!

[The Cardinal]

Is there actually anyone honest, decent or half-way competent in your industry?

 

[The Merry Prankster]

I think that would have to be a no. The honest ones don't understand what been going on and the dishonst ones have been taking advantage of that.

 

[El Presidente]

Very few. Too many conflicts of interest, and not enough skilled people in the industry.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Is there actually anyone honest, decent or half-way competent in your industry?

Having listened to a number of Building Society bosses over the past few months extol the virtues of their business ideology the answer is a resounding YES.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Every last one of them, from top to bottom, is bluffing it. They all got took completely unawares. Else they would have sold their entire equity portfolio in the Summer immediately before the crash.

Mildly amusing to see, for example, the columnists in the Evening Standard being ever-so-wise after the event, and even nibbling at the hand that until recently fed them.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

As someone who once spoke with a brummie accent ... the mystery to me is how Joseph Chamberlain's highly successful and totally solid Birmingham Municipal Bank somehow got stolen, turned into Lloyds TSB and is about to climb into bed with the disaster that is HBOS.

Talk about chucking good money after bad.