Banks, drugs, Mexico and jobs at the top
So Paul Moore, formerly responsible for compliance at HBOS and who was sacked after warning in 2004 that the bank’s lending was risky and in serious danger of-heating, has applied to be the Chairman of Barclays. Mr. Moore, whom I met and talked with extensively last week, is unlikely to be hanging around his phone in the expectation of a Barclays call. Although, I have met no one who knows quite so much about where the more noxious of the banking bodies are buried.