Wilfred (Wilf) Frost
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first heard May 2026
last heard 3 Aug
Wilfred (Wilf) Frost’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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2004.
I guess you didn't just make it through the crisis.
As you said, 2008, you had a positive ROE.
It was a fantastic year in a relative sense.
But you didn't just emerge from the crisis.
You are quite comfortably now the biggest bank in the world.
When you took over in 2006, you were third or fourth biggest in the US.
You've grown about eightfold since then to $900 billion market cap.
The rivals that were bigger than you then have grown about 1.5 to two times.
You're more than double your biggest rival now.
Back then, were you confident you'd get the bank to where it is now?
Getting through those tough moments reminded me of, I guess, the pressure you must have felt in moments like the peak of the financial crisis.
And whilst I know you have this amazing team around you that you must bounce ideas off and decide whether to do things or not,
The decisions are ultimately yours to make.
And if we took, say, the decision to buy Bear Stearns and take onto your balance sheet all this risk that you didn't have beforehand, as you said, you had zero chance of going bust before that, I just wonder how lonely that is sometimes.
And even you finish the due diligence for a big decision,
How do you then make that final call?
Are you sitting on the desk by yourself?
How do you buy a company?
Do you sign a piece of paper?
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