Trouble is, these banks are considered ‘too big to fail’ so the poor old taxpayer has to ballena’em out.
While the fat cats on the boards continue to have a whale of a time.
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‘cats’ or ‘catfish’?
You introduced crustaceans into the thread and now you’ve brought in cetaceans too - what’s the porpoise?
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C’est assez 
Not that Catfish are 
Yeah, the banks learned that when they were bailed out in 2008. They take more risks because of it.
“banking” can be more like a casino these days, not banking at all really.
More “banco” than “bank”, then
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More angling than dealing.
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As one does 
I seem to remember the story of an employee that had screwed up big time and cost the Company a lot of money being summoned to IBM CEO Tom Watson jr’s office. He was expecting to be fired but he wasn’t, Watson said “it’s just cost me $Xm to train you, why would I let you go now”. Obviously HSBC senior management have read… 
equally, I remember a story about visiting a supplier in Eire and in the MD’s office was a big hole in the wall…
“What’s the story behind the hole Noel?” I innocently asked -
“Ah be jasus, that was where my safe was - one of lads broke in a couple of night ago and stole it”
“you sacked him I guess”
“Hell no, anyone who can remove a safe so cleanly as that deserves to be working for me!”
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Another one bites the dust… Saudi won’t be happy (which is one small upside to this debacle).
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