I do not think I have found any of the previous revelations about what bankers have been up to during their years as masters of the universe to be truly shocking - anything that respectable Victorians could get up to, as revealed in the works of David Morier Evans, C 21st banking buccaneers could do better.
Until it came to money laundering.
And yet there has been remarkably little outcry about this – certainly not on the scale of that which met the Barclay’s revelations.
Just another of life’s mysteries?
Links
FT: HSBC’s Mexico nightmare on money laundering
Facts, failures and frauds: revelations, financial, mercantile, criminal: David Morier Evans
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