Hints and tips:
...At London’s hedonistic Bob Bob Ricard City restaurant, more than a third of the wine list is magnum or larger....
...Come over one day after work and I’m opening a bottle of Bollinger”. That ill-advised message helped spark one of the biggest scandals in banking history....
...Bob Diamond, the unlamented former chief executive of Barclays, once defined the culture of a bank as “how people behave when no one is watching”....
...Society, which grants them a licence to operate, determines the period for remorse, not bosses like Bob Diamond....
...Come over one day after work and I’m opening a bottle of Bollinger.” Under pressure from Sir Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, Bob Diamond was forced out as Barclays’ chief executive....
...The implication was that behind the references to Bollinger and big-boy, this was really a company dedicated to helping elderly ladies cross the road....
...It could start as early as next week, as Mr Tyrie’s committee prepares to subject Bob Diamond, Barclays’ chief executive, to a grilling over his role in the affair....
...Without making any explicit threats, their message was conveyed – Bob Diamond, chief executive, would also have to go....
...Come over one day after work and I’m opening a bottle of Bollinger.”...
...Bob Diamond, Barclays chief executive, said he and three of his top lieutenants would waive any bonus for this year “to reflect our collective responsibility as leaders” as the British bank admitted to “...
...As readers of the FT undoubtedly know by now, Barclays agreed to pay $450m to settle allegations that it manipulated the London interbank offered rate – Libor – and its chief executive, Bob Diamond, then...
...Traders at Barclays would hardly have promised to reward venal submitters with bottles of Bollinger if the scam did not work. Bad practice, like bad money, tends to drive out good....
...I half expected to encounter a placard-wielding mob ironically swigging from bottles of Bollinger while forming an orderly queue to withdraw their savings....
...The difference is that Bob Diamond is about as far removed in skills and demeanour from Mr Buxton as it is possible to be....
...And congratulations to Jason Farago from New York, who was the first correct entry drawn and who will receive the prize of six bottles of Champagne Bollinger Rosé....
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