World Bank/IMF: Corporate hospitality

Pity the holidaymaker who opted for a peaceful break in Nusa Dua, Bali, in mid-October.

The World Bank/IMF annual meeting was held in this peninsular in the south of the Indonesian island, and every major resort along one coast was co-opted into either the meeting itself, or external meetings by the banks.

Deutsche and JPMorgan monopolized the Ritz-Carlton; the Institute of International Finance and its many delegates took over the Grand Hyatt; the St Regis hosted receptions for HSBC, among others.

Remarkably, though, some of these resorts still took ordinary tourists, who could occasionally be seen looking baffled by numerous layers of security and hundreds of people in suits networking in the hotel lobbies.

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