Mary Poppins & Prudent Banking

Nalaka Gunawardene, the well-known Sri Lankan journalist, makes an interesting point as to why every banker should see Mary Poppins, the famous 1964 Walt Disney movie. As he says: “For it holds a very important and fundamental lesson for their profession: the need to win every customer’s trust and confidence…

“The movie has many interesting scenes, but one that is directly relevant to bankers is when Mr Banks takes his daughter Jane and son Michael to his work place, the Dawes Tomes Mousley Grubbs Fidelity Fiduciary Bank to give its full name.

“Mr. Dawes, the bank’s elderly chairman, aggressively tries to persuade Michael to invest his modest savings (all of two pence or tuppence) in the bank…” More here…

And here is Gunawardene’s other piece on financial meltdown…Please click here…