Liebrary: Honours are an honour? Banking honours since 1997, compiled by Channel4's Dispatches

With the busting of Mr.Goodwin, former Royal Bank of Scotland CEO and erstwhile knight of the realm, we refer you to some research done by Channel4's multi-award winning current affairs programme Dispatches. 


In 2009 they did a tally of honours given to bankers and others in the finance industry between 1997 and 2009:


According to this tally, there were 81 honours given to individuals working in banking and finance

• 36 of these were awarded to bankers
• 19 knighthoods, MBEs, CBEs or OBEs awarded by the government for "services to banking"
• 62 honours were given for services to the finance industry
• Of those rewarded, 16 worked for banks which later failed
• 9 honours were awarded to RBS staff
• Standard Chartered, HSBC, HBOS and Barclays each received 4 honours
• Lloyds TSB were awarded 3 honours