Gosling's Grouse: A question of integrity

GOSLING'S GROUSE

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WORD - mine is my bond - is it yours? These are the words in a series of adverts which started running this week in London, Dublin, Birmingham, Edinburgh and Leeds.

They have been placed by the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI), which has the subsidiary headline ‘integrity matters’. You might think it slightly ironic some of these ads are going to run at Bank and Canary Wharf underground tube stations in London – depending on your view of who, or what, caused the financial meltdown five years ago. It this a case of too little, too late, or a welcome reminder? I do not subscribe to the view the entire crisis can be laid at the feet of the likes of Bob Diamond from Barclays, Fred Goodwin at RBS, or even Dick Fuld at Lehmans. ...

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