18 MAY 1991, page 21

City And Suburban

Tears after boom-time — and farewell to the Bank of England's scapegoat CHRISTOPHER FILDES I knew there was a crisis when I went to see Jim Keogh at the Bank of England, and......

Loyalties

FEAR was spreading, though, and credit contracting. Within a fortnight another eight fringe banks were lined up outside the Discount Office. Within a month, the Bank was......

Nature, Sense, Chance

THE Virgin Islands have a bank holiday for the Day of the Organic Act. I once wrote to ask Jim Keogh whether this Caribbean banking practice was observed in St Kitts, and if so,......

Beyond The Fringe

NONE of this was of Keogh's making. He could only observe, and warn, as he did, repeatedly and formally, that it would end in tears. The Crown Agents tribunal, the fullest and......