OUR STORY that Barclays Capital had stolen a march and legged over the opposition by hosting the best and most imaginative party at the Euromoney Global Borrowers and Investors Forum has caused a public outcry. Competitors are blubbing. Questions have been raised in the house. There are even suggestions that Viscount Bridport, a managing partner of Bridport & Cie in Geneva, might make a rare appearance and dazzle the House of Lords with a motion on behalf of the losers that, "we wuz robbed and where's our compensation?" Quite frankly, we can't see what the fuss is all about. If the likes of Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Deutsche (Morgan Grenfell RIP) can't get their party skittles into line are we supposed to play nursery nanny and come running with a diaper in one hand and a suppository in the other?
June 12, 1998