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HARDtalk: Bill Winters - Financier

02/11/2011

Bill Winters - Financier

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Zeinab Badawi speaks to Bill Winters, one of London's best-known financiers.

Zeinab Badawi speaks to Bill Winters, one of London's best-known financiers and member of a UK government-appointed commission to recommend major banking reforms.

Bankers saw their popularity plummet in the wake of the financial crisis; some were reduced to becoming hate figures. In the UK, the government appointed a commission to recommend major banking reforms to help prevent future billion-dollar bailouts by the taxpayer. 

Zeinab Badawi speaks to Bill Winters who sat on that commission and is also one of London's best-known financiers. Can the greed and ineptitude of the bankers that he speaks of be stopped, and what about his own record?

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