Coming to this a few months late provides some... interesting perspective. On 24 Apr 2012, xTrade Assessory uttered the following: > Martin Gregorie wrote: >> But back to banking? In the UK, anyway, you don't need to be either >> intelligent or have any industry qualifications to run a bank. Back in >> 2007 or thereabouts a quiz master asked what was the difference >> between: >> - the CEO who bankrupted the Northern Rock Building Society >> - the CEO who bankrupted the Royal Bank of Scotland >> - the boss of Barclays (I think - might have been the Co-OP Bank) >> - Terry Wogan, who was a well-known radio presenter at the time. >> >> The answer was that the only one of them with any banking qualifications >> was Terry Wogan. > > media jokes certainly are not a good base for classification :)
Perhaps not. I think the near-ruination of the world economy, the near-bankrupting of numerous rich states, and now the hilarious RBS epic computing disaster and long-running but now-exploding LIBOR rigging scandal put a slightly different tone on things. It's not only a quiz show host to figured that Bob Diamond shouldn't be running a major bank. It's the chairman of the Bank of England (oh, the FSA too). -- NULL && (void)
