Martin Vander Weyer Martin Vander Weyer

A chastened City

Martin Vander Weyer says that while pay restraint is unlikely to break out in the City anytime soon, the sub prime woes and the Northern Rock debacle might just have made bankers a little more aware of how they fit in with the rest of society.

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