Turn the clock back 18 months. In the summer of 2001 try and remember which leaders of major banks received the best PR and, if you believed everything you read in the press, seemed to walk on water. Just in case you have forgotten, we will remind you. The idols of the day were Josef Ackermann of Deutsche Bank, who was mercifully about to bring the Rolf Breuer era to an end, Bob Diamond at Barclays Capital, Richard Fuld of Lehman Brothers, Sandy Weill of Citigroup and Ken Lewis of Bank of America.
November 29, 2002