Bankers are doing it to themselves.

[Alf W]

Banker found hanged in hotel room

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7794210.stm

One down. Here we go...........................

[BrilloPad]

I know he was a banker so easy target : but he did have 2 kids as well.

[Mich the Tester]

I know he was a banker so easy target : but he did have 2 kids as well.

Hopefully they'll grow up to do a worthwhile job instead of following their father's example.

[PM-Junkie]

That's in pretty poor taste given that this is a public forum and there is a chance, however slight, that they could read this.

How would you feel?

[Mich the Tester]

That's in pretty poor taste

Yes, almost as poor taste as losing gazillions of pounds of other people's money and throwing the world into a deep recession.

[PM-Junkie]

Yes, almost as poor taste as losing gazillions of pounds of other people's money and throwing the world into a deep recession.

...and that has exactly what to do with his kids??

Merry Christmas to you too. Your parents must be very proud.

[Mich the Tester]

...and that has exactly what to do with his kids??

Merry Christmas to you too. Your parents must be very proud.

Of course it's bloody awful on the guy's kids. My apparent lack of sympathy is more a comment on the fact that I think we're going to see a lot more of this and that shows the depth of destruction that irresponsible banking has created. Of course everyone should feel sorry for his family.

[deano]

The guy was from HSBC, which hasn't needed any money to bail them out and has said it's making a billion pounds available to small businesses in loans.

He worked for a well run bank, not one of the badly run ones. Your comments say more about you than about the banks.

You will be having a happier Christmas than his family will.

Merry Christmas.

[Mich the Tester]

The guy was from HSBC, which hasn't needed any money to bail them out and has said it's making a billion pounds available to small businesses in loans.

He worked for a well run bank, not one of the badly run ones. Your comments say more about you than about the banks.

You will be having a happier Christmas than his family will.

Merry Christmas.

And how about the millions of families whose christmas will be bloody awful thanks to the complete breakdown of professional standards and competence in the banking industry? Perhaps while HSBC's directors and the banking profession in general do the right thing and look to help this guy's family, they could also put some serious thought into how they're going to help the millions of people who were sold mortgages they didn't understand, whose pensions and savings have been lost and those whose small businesses are dying for lack of normal, responsible credit.

The entire banking profession must face up to it's responsibility; this guy's suicide looks like a microcosm of the bloody misery that banks have created, and for which their 'profession' should be held responsible.

[deano]

how they're going to help the millions of people who were sold mortgages they didn't understand, whose pensions and savings have been lost and those whose small businesses are dying for lack of normal, responsible credit.

Like I said Mitch, HSBC haven't made those loans. They bought out a bank in America (Household Bank) years ago that did do that sort of stuff, and then made provisions for the bad debts a few years back so they could turn it around.

Then they have said they will lend money to small business who can repay normal, responsible credit.

It's a good, well run bank. I don't bank there. My accounts are with a bank that has had to take the Government shilling, but they do deserve recognition as a bank that isn't in trouble and if the whole banking sector had followed their lead over the last decade then we would not be in this mess now.

But to try and make a political point over the sad death of a very poorly man with small children is reprehensible.