David Shirreff
Sunday June 18 seemed a normal Prague afternoon. Tourists streamed through the castle, down the hill, across Charles Bridge into the Old Town Square. At Stvanice tennis club, Jack Stack, American chairman of local bank Ceska Sporitelna was playing doubles with a journalist, a lawyer and an investment banker. Thomas Münkel, chief of Allianz insurance’s local subsidiary, was in the garden with his family, expecting a busy day on Monday. Randall Dillard, Nomura’s chief regional investment banker, downed a few jars of Pilsner Urquell, whose famous brewery he’d successfully sold to the South Africans last year.
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