Bankers' pulpit; COMMENT.Byline: by ALEX BRUMMER City Editor THE moral bearings of HSBC HSBC Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation HSBC Humane Society of Broward County (Florida) HSBC Humane Society of Bay County (Bay County, Michigan) chairman Stephen Green as an ordained or·dain tr.v. or·dained, or·dain·ing, or·dains 1. a. To invest with ministerial or priestly authority; confer holy orders on. b. To authorize as a rabbi. 2. Anglican minister are well known. It was more surprising to hear John Varley declaring from the pulpit at London's St Martin-in-the-Fields that 'profit is not satanic' and arguing that 'Christianity and banking are compatible'. Maybe. But one doubts if ordinary taxpayers, facing years of penury pen·u·ry n. 1. Extreme want or poverty; destitution. 2. Extreme dearth; barrenness or insufficiency. [Middle English penurie, from Latin , would agree. |
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