Dramatis personae

Sigma triggers global meltdown

Virtual battle

Sigma Banking Corporation

Perseus Marconi – chairman and CEO

Rufus Franklin – chief risk officer

Wendy Nelson – in-house lawyer

Rhein-Ruhr Bank:

Rainer Eggers – executive chairman

Great Northern Bank:

Sir Roy McTaggart – chairman

UK banks

Midshires Bank:

Sir John Furniss – chairman

Harry Duggan – chief risk officer

Anglia Bank:

Sir Miles Lewis – chairman

Rupa Fanshaw – chief financial officer

Other European banks

IBN Flanders Bank:

Gerritt Aesop – chairman

Jan Chambers – chief risk officer

French Banks

Crédit Général:

Charles Lemaitre – chairman

Yvonne Laffitte – chief financial officer

German banks

Bayerische Kreditbank:

Eugen Toplitz – executive chairman

Chuck Rivers – chief risk officer

US banks

Chemical Bank:

Rick Strange – chairman

Lynn Darke – chief financial officer

Continental Bank:

Bill Speke – chairman

Tony Ringo – chief financial officer

Wood Stanley:

Dick Fletcher – chairman

Tony La Salle -head of corporate finance

Fischer King:

John Friend – chairman

Brad Cohen – chief financial officer

US officials

Alan Greenspan – US Federal Reserve chairman

Arthur Levitt – SEC chairman

Robert Rubin – treasury secretary

UK officials

Howard Davies – chairman FSA

Eddie George – Bank of...