Bob Diamond Tries a New Banking Play

摘要

To most people, lending money to small Italian businesses looks perilous. In the past decade, Italy became a byword for financial dysfunction as hundreds of billions of euros in bad loans piled up, its third-biggest bank cratered, and a moribund economy triggered a wave of political populism (page 33). Who wants to provide credit in such a stormy market? Bob Diamond, the former chief executive officer of Barclays Pic, for one.