Summit planned for Jersey

Monday 22nd March 2010, 3:00PM GMT.

Tamara Menteshvili outlining the plans at the launch meeting Picture: TONY PIKE (00916105)

THE chief executive of the British Bankers Association will be among the speakers at a prestigious one-day finance summit to be held in the Island in September.

It is possible that by that time Angela Knight will be a UK treasury minister, if the Conservatives are successful in the general election expected to take place in May.

Many commentators believe that Bankers Association head Mrs Knight will be part of David Cameron’s treasury team if the Tories take over from Gordon Brown’s government. She is a former treasury minister and served under Ken Clarke from 1995 to 1997 and was responsible for the introduction of the £2 coin.

Mrs Knight is due to speak at the first international business summit arranged by the Channel Islands Stock Exchange to be held in this Island. It is to be held at the Hotel de France on Friday 10 September.

Speaking at the launch of the summit, the chief executive of the exchange, Tamara Menteshvili, said that it was staged in Guernsey for the first time last year and attracted more than 230 delegates, half of whom came from outside the Channel Islands.

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UK Bean

March 22, 2010 at 5:30 pm

If there is the remotest chance that Ms Angela Knight could be in a possible future Conservative government, then I would happily vote for the NuLabour fiasco to continue. And that’s from someone who has always voted for the blue party in the past as I don’t want her anywhere near the levers of power. She still seems to spout the standard line that the incentive structures in banks and finance companies were not a fundamental cause of this worldwide recession we are suffering. Michael Lewis, the author of Liars Poker, in the press at the weekend nailed that one when he said the perverse incentive structures in those companies were fundamental to the worst downturn since the Great Depression.

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Pip Clement

March 22, 2010 at 6:23 pm

The very fact that she served in the last days of John Major’s administration is a black mark against her.
If David Cameron becomes Prime Minister he will not want any old faces hanging around to remind the public of that time.
He will be looking to staff the place with fresh and untainted faces!

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