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...Hopper dreams of glory, and an identity of his own, so he becomes the boxer Hector Hidalgo, taking and giving beatings from Mexico to Las Vegas in the pursuit of purpose....
...People are afraid of being vilified as the next Fred the Shred.” The costs of mental ill-health are huge....
...However it was on April 4 2008 that Fred Goodwin, the chief executive, together with finance director Guy Whittaker and Tom McKillop, chairman, concluded RBS should launch a rights issue and notified the...
...In the case of Fred Goodwin, the government went a step further and early this year stripped the former chief executive of the now part-nationalised Royal Bank of Scotland of his gong....
...It was not only Fred Goodwin who was “incompetent but not legally culpable”, in the words of Sir Hector Sants, the former head of the Financial Services Authority, describing the most notorious British banking...
...Sir, The Queen can encourage us all to increase recycling – when Hector Sants receives his knighthood she can give him the one they took from Fred Goodwin. Clark McGinn, Dublin 4, Ireland...
...5/1 Jim O’Neill 10/1 Mark Carney 16/1 John Vickers 20/1 Kate Barker 20/1 Warwick Jones 20/1 John Footman 20/1 Peter Sands 22/1 Douglas Flint 25/1 Hector...
...One of the oddities about the decision to remove Fred Goodwin’s knighthood is that it is pretty much the only sanction the former chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland has faced for his failings....
...He lived up to the nickname “Fred the Shred”, which he had earned earlier in his career, cutting many thousands of jobs....
...While Sir Fred Goodwin stepped down and was publicly vilified, Mr Sants and Sir Mervyn King, Bank of England governor, have extended their power bases....
...It’s Fred Goodwin, head man of the languishing British bank, RBS. He glances behind him. No one’s there....
...As Hector Sants, the FSA’s chief executive, warned last week, the City watchdog is about to become seriously scary....
...As the Fred and Velma of the gang – committed, persistent, ever so slightly square – Hector Sants, chief executive, and Margaret Cole, head of enforcement, have set out to put that right....
...Fighting to get into the saddle: Hector Sants, Alistair Darling and Mervyn King. Their message: sorry, sorry and sorry....
...Sir Fred Goodwin, Royal Bank of Scotland’s former chief executive, is under pressure over his £650,000 a year pension....
...Banks merit special treatment, as the lingering row over who said what to whom about Sir Fred Goodwin’s Royal Bank of Scotland pension suggests....
...That weekend Hector Sants, FSA chief executive, told Sir Fred the bank needed another £20bn in capital. The next day, Sir Fred announced he was leaving, without a payoff....
...Hector Sants, chief executive of the Financial Services Authority, doesn’t have that luxury. He must find a happy medium between a light touch and a heavy hand....
...Related links: Dear CEO… love, Hector – FT Alphaville Standard Life chief replaced as review launched – FT story...
...Even so, it is surprising to hear Hector Sants, the FSA’s chief executive, adopt such a tone. His comments will send a chill through already frigid City boardrooms....
...Mr King, Sir Callum McCarthy, chairman of the Financial Services Authority, and Hector Sants, FSA chief executive, met the chancellor at Number 11 Downing Street that morning....
...If it could also speed up the search for a strong replacement for Hector Sants, chief executive, to run the division that oversees the hedge funds then it would reduce the risk of mere disappointment turning...
...“It’s reasonable to expect some deal failures to occur,” Hector Sants, head of wholesale business at the Financial Services Authority, the main UK regulator, recently warned....
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