The ghost of bankers past

"Bank of Scotland's management has a big City fan club for having proved itself as highly competent administrators and adroit overseers of internally generated growth. It has been one of the quickest movers on computer and telephone banking south of the Border.

But one suspects there is a desire on The Mound for a deal that can show they can implement a big strategic vision, a dramatic transformational move, rather than just burnish a reputation for capable stewardship of the store."

That was written in The Scotsman in August 2000. Within the decade The Mound has become a museum. I don't think that was quite the "dramatic transformational move" they were aiming for.

As Jim Royle may have said "capable stewardship, my arse"