Gosling's Grouse - What is integrity?

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Integrity is a much-used word in this industry.

It has become even more popular since the Lehman collapse as we smugly suggested the ‘greedy bankers’ are a world away from our caring, sharing financial services industry where we help people save for their retirement, not get rich ourselves. Detect a hint of cynicism from me? You would be right. My disdain was not helped by seeing last week’s Channel 4 programme about three MPs trying to get their noses in the trough. I suppose you cannot really blame them; from the second week in May they will be unemployed, so they might as well try and line up a bit of easy money now while they are ...

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