Gobi March: Doing good in the Gobi

A seven-day, six-stage, 250 kilometre race across the desert in China, the contest sounds gruelling enough but perhaps will have come as light relief after the last 18 months of hardship in the workplace.

For bankers in some of the world’s more crisis-hit economies, their markets must have seemed like deserts of late, bereft of liquidity and empty of activity. Some more intrepid individuals from the financial services industry had that metaphor become reality when they took part in the Gobi March on June 14. A seven-day, six-stage, 250 kilometre race across the desert in China, the contest sounds gruelling enough but perhaps will have come as light relief after the last 18 months of hardship in the workplace.

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