Steve McKevitt

Author

In a society that values winning above everything else, we should not be surprised that a culture of cheating has become endemic. So much so in fact that it is now entirely possible to enjoy a successful career without achieving anything at all, without ever being involved with a successful company or project.

Alastair Stewart

ITV News presenter and CARE International UK Ambassador

Worldwide, 2.5billion people are excluded from financial security and the fruits of sound advice on how to better their material condition. The partner is Barclays, beset by problems at home yet doing amazing work here and elsewhere.

Carla Buzasi

Carla Buzasi is editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post UK

They say a week is a long time in politics, but what about sport, not to mention finance? The past seven days have been remarkable if for nothing more than their volatility, with headlines changing faster than terrorism alerts on British motorways. Is mentioning the tennis a bit like mentioning the weather? So obvious a topic as to make this entire blog worthless, and likely to jinx any chance of a sunny outlook?

Fleur Brading

Director of the Henry Jackson Initiative

If a newspaper were to report that a bank had been involved in activities that increased profits and, in a time of crisis, somewhat disingenuously gave a favourable impression of its strength, we may roll our eyes and say that we expected little less, but we would most probably not withdraw our money from it. Familiarity has bred quite a large amount of, well, familiarity in the past five years and the general public's expectations of the banks are low.

Simon Dixon

CEO and founder of BankToTheFuture.com

It seems like there is a new banking scandal everyday now. Every time I think we have heard it all, a new scandal pops up.

Dr Raj Persaud and Adrian Furnham

Consultant Psychiatrist and Emeritus Visiting Gresham Professor for Public Understanding of Psychiatry

What those who are trying to regulate banking don't fully grasp, is the kind of person who tends to reach the top of finance, often has a particular attitude to money, liable to land it in trouble.

Michael Hewson

Senior Market Analyst at CMC Markets

If concerns about Europe and exposure to the amount of bad debt on European banks balance sheets weren't enough for the banking sector to think about,...

Nick Abbot

LBC 97.3 talk show host, DJ and writer.

Bankers used to synonymous with boring. They used to be the most dull people on the high street, and by dull mean dependable, stolid, trustworthy. The most uptight, emotionally constipated and risk averse character in Dad's Army was a bank manager.