| Dramatis personae | |
| Mulhouse Brand & Co (mbc) | |
| Lord Birkenhead, chairman | |
| Peter Butter, chief financial officer | |
| Wendy Nelson, in-house lawyer | |
| Elmas (Emerging Latin Markets Assets & Securities) | |
| Alberto Schultz, president and ceo | |
| Federated Scottish Banks (fsb) | |
| Sir Roy McTaggart, chairman and ceo | |
| Iain Stewart, treasurer | |
| Douglas Firth, lawyer | |
| Bayerische Kreditbank (bkb) | |
| Eugen Toplitz, chairman of the executive board | |
| Hannes Ross, treasurer | |
| Michaela Funk, mbc liaison and lawyer | |
| UK officials | |
| Howard Davies, chairman, CIB | |
| Eddie George, governor, Bank of England | |
| Alistair Darling, chief treasury secretary | |
| German officials | |
| Hans Tietmeyer, president, Bundesbank | |
| Jürgen Stark, state secretary, federal finance ministry | |
| Wolfgang Artopoeus, president, BaKred Berlin | |
| US officials | |
| Alan Greenspan, chairman, US Federal Reserve | |
| Arthur Levitt, chairman, SEC | |
| Robert Rubin, treasury secretary | |
| Jim Herzog, acting head, CFTC | |
| Multilateral officials | |
| Andrew Crockett, chairman, BIS | |
| Michel Camdessus, managing director, IMF | |
| Wim Duisenberg, president, European Central Bank | |
| UK banks | |
| Martin Taylor, chief executive, Barclays Bank | |
| Hans de Gier, chief executive, SBC Warburg | |
| Sir William Purves, chairman, HSBC | |
| German banks | |
| Rolf Breuer, speaker, Deutsche Bank | |
| Jürgen Sarrazin, chairman, Dresdner Bank | |
| Friedel Neuber, chairman, Westdeutsche Landesbank | |
| US banks | |
| Nancy Coburn, chairman, Bank of America | |
| Frank Newman, chairman, Bankers Trust | |
| Dick Fisher, chairman, Morgan Stanley |
A financial crisis isn't just about numbers that don't add up.