The Robin Hood banker
Nov 25th, 2009
From the Guardian: German banker admits transferring money from rich to help poorer clients.
In these financially troubled times, bankers tend not to score too highly on the scale of public admiration, with their bonuses, bailouts and bad loans. But today details emerged of a woman who may confound the popular view that everyone in the industry is in it for themselves.
The 62-year-old branch head of one German bank was hailed as a hero after she confessed to transferring money from rich customers to help her poorer clients. Already, she has been dubbed
Die Robin Hood Bankerin. [continue]
I can understand it. How hard it must be, especially when it’s a small town and you know clients personally, to enforce the cruel inequities of life. I might have done the same, in her place. When people are desperate, how can one refuse to help?