Victims of their own success

If any Hollywood producer decides to make a farce about Financial markets, he might want to give Chip Kruger and Gary Holloway a call.

These two have been pawns in NatWest’s soap-opera saga of buying into investment banking, selling out of most of it less than three years later, and then using what was left as a Financial punchbag in a desperate attempt to avoid falling prey to a hostile bid from one of two Scottish banks.