Financial Crimes?

Submitted by Kathryn Busby on 9 March 2009

“Our system for regulating markets and for prosecuting market crime is completely broken. If you mug someone in the street and you are caught, the chances are that you will go to prison. In recent years mugging someone out of their savings or their pension would probably earn you a yacht.

Sir Ken Macdonald, a former Director of Public Prosecutions
The Times, 23rd Feb 2009


Joining an investment bank was like "joining a gang of jewellery robbers just after they made the heist of the century and just before they got caught by the police."

32-year-old mergers and acquisitions banker with an MBA quoted by Adrian Cox in the Financial Times 10th Feb 2009