Creative industries to replace finance?

Thursday 11th March 2010, 3:00PM GMT.

John Boothman.

THE Island should be looking to the creative industries to replace the finance industry in future, a former senior banker told an audience of business leaders this week.

Members of the Jersey branch of the Institute of Directors heard John Boothman say that action needed to be taken, as the finance industry would disappear at some point.

‘Finance will go the way of cider making and privateering,’ Mr Boothman told the audience of over 100 business leaders at the lunch at the Grand Hotel.

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