It would be a lucrative investment in goodwill.

These books are not so much record-straightening accounts as acts of political self-defence and selfjustification; both historical insurance and lucrative investment.

He also wants the banking regulator to approve every single mortgage sold and to force banks to turn their vastly lucrative investment arms into separate consultancies.

An old-fashioned broker, his first priority was serving his clients and being their eyes and ears in the market rather than drumming up lucrative investment banking work for his employer.

That means that they would be willing to opt for more lucrative investments and the estimated 6 billion deficit, and cause of the proposed changes, would shrink considerably.