yoganmahew wrote:
I dunno, Mr. Aynsley is starting to impress me. He is, at least, doing the obvious things. We may end up with Nuovo Angelo as the only viable bank in the country...
Aww Yogan, you're getting soft! He a grim po-faced civil servant type, a minion and well suited to the position of bending over for the mandarins in the Department of Finance. All he is doing is pandering to the media and the mob. For example, instead of settling accounts with David Drumm, he (or his masters) want a media circus- the "ad hominem" mentality of attack the man, not the problem. He has done no new lending, nor has he lent on any of the old accounts except where it was absolutely necessary and was approved by the Department. Their main concern is to pull all income in, let nothing out, prefer themselves over any other creditor of their clients; and package all for NAMA. Who the hell will want, or be left, to deal with them?
His idea of a "good bank" "bad bank" was put forward on a grander scale by Peter Mathews in lieu of NAMA and would have worked better than NAMA in that case, but is a waste of time on the scale of a still toxic Anglo - even after NAMA subsumes most of it. In the end, they will have no clients left and no staff of any use either. They are "dead bank walking". Acceptance of that fact has not registered yet... they still live in a fool's paradise. Come back in 12 months.