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Internet Banking: Will this pig fly?

So far there's no world-beating example of an internet bank. Euromoney and the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (CSFI) decided to fill the gap in three easy stages. First, drafting the structure. Second, launching a virtual retail bank. Third, diversifying into all areas, to build a veritable Merrill Lynch of the ether. That's the theory. Here's what happened at stage one, as reported by David Shirreff.

January 1, 1999

Dramatis personae

Anglia Bank
Sir Miles Lewis, chairman
Bruce Fanshaw, chief financial officer
Jim Davidson, in-house lawyer
Rodney Torino, board member
Lana Birkenhead, board member




Retained by Anglia
Brian Smooth, consultant Wimsey & Co
Piers Bannister, lawyer, Bannister Hawley
Ron Doppler, security expert
Malcolm Fishmark, IT consultant

Pegasus team
Peter Birch, entrepreneur
Sam Weller, lawyer
Dick Friday, accountant
Ernest Campbell, marketing consultant
Marcus Force, security expert
Guy Foot, investment banker
Thomas McLeod, IT consultant






Condor team
Russ Caner, banker
Tony Tanner, consultant
John Sale, investment banker


High Hedge Capital
Karl Bellwether, chairman

FSA
Ron Smith, banking supervision
Mick Tate, markets and exchanges

Expert witnesses
Everyone else present

Pegasus Bank doesn’t yet exist, but when it does those pygmies that already operate in cyberspace will have to sharpen up.

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