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The Economist.

From The Economist in London, this is Money Talks, a weekly conversation around themes in business, finance and economics.

I'm Stan Pinyal, the banking editor, and joining me this week is Edward McBride, who edits the finance and economics section. This week we will look at Troubles at

Deutcha Bank and H.S. B. C. and Iceland's capital controls.

Edward, it's been a busy week for global banks with de-Fenestrations at Deutcha

and a strategy update at HSBC.

That's right, this huge upheaval.

Deutsche Banks co-ceeos, Antschoo Jane and Jorgen-Fitchin,

have both announced their resignations, a sort of staggered resignation,

takes place over a year.

And she Jane going first, Jorgon Fitchin going next year.

That was all a huge surprise because Deutcher had only very recently unveiled a new strategy and

it was thought that in particular Ant should Jane was going to lead the implementation of that strategy.

So everyone was taken back over the weekend when the resignations were announced and now this week we have

HSBC announcing yet more detail on what seems to be a sort of many year-long review of its operations, pairing down both staff and

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