Ebenezer Scrooge
speaker
133 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2010
last heard Dec 2010
Ebenezer Scrooge’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There's now massive anger directed at its long-standing chairman, Ebenezer Scrooge.
You have not assembled a commission of inquiry, Spirit, but a hanging judge and a firing squad.
And Angela Knight, what of her?
So small banks have proven, unfortunately, as a generality, to have had the most difficulty in riding the crisis.
And those who have been most successful have been the so-called universal banks and the large universal banks.
So the reality of what has been the model that has survived best has been the one that most people are attacking.
What we can do there, what we can do, is we can have a banking sector that is closer together.
to its customers.
We can have an environment which attracts new entrants.
We can have a banking arrangement which has small banks and large banks, which has universal banks and has narrow banks.
Is that not a reasonable view, Spirit?
People forget that small dominoes can fall as easily as large ones, and the consequences can still be spectacular.
It is not black and white.
Perhaps the mood of the country would change if we bankers were to offer an apology for our past mistakes.
In October 2008, I stood on a public platform and I apologised on behalf of the industry.
I said then, you know, that we shouldered a collective responsibility and we apologised.
There was about 150 people in the audience, about 15, 20 journalists.
I was always sorry then that it never got reported.
We put it out at the BBA as a press release several times, but nobody ever picked it up.
And it was genuine then, and it's genuine now.
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