Instead, I have to go out with Rob Gray, senior manager, institutional sales at Saxo Bank in London. Rob has requested we go for what he calls a “meat feast” at Simpsons Tavern, Cornhill, one of the City of London’s most traditional dining places. I shall of course oblige, even though I’m meant to be in training. I guess I shall not treat my body as the temple it is next Friday.
Anyway, for those who want to know, the answers to the quiz are as follows:
Christmas quiz 1. Name the only bank with the confidence to admit, on the record, that it pre-empted its clients’ orders?
1 UBS;
2. Who was the highest profile individual loser to get plucked and stuffed by Turkey?
3. Name the bank that is still, apparently, sulking after I labelled it as “transparently stupid”.
3 HSBC;
4. Who made the now infamous claim that the dealing room of the future would contain just a computer, a man and a dog?
5. Which