Abigail with attitude: Christmas presents for bank CEOs

Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan

 



– a spa day. After the dreadful year which Jamie has endured, he needs to relax and be pampered. Definitely, a world-class mani and pedi and a four-hand Balinese style massage for jaded Jamie!

Brian Moynihan of Bank of America

– a front-cover spread in Hello magazine and a tin hat. Brian now seems to be everyone’s favourite bank CEO. This popularity premium for celebrities normally leads to a Hello cover and then when everything, inevitably, falls apart, some type of protection from the fallout.

Antony Jenkins of Barclays

– a yurt. Things are not going well at the UK bank despite Jenkins’s attempts to distance himself from the previous Diamond regime. With no permanent head of compliance or operations, Jenkins must be on a knife-edge in case there is a big problem. He needs somewhere to get away from it all. I proffer a yurt. A yurt (for those readers who are hazy about the exact definition) is a portable, circular, dwelling structure traditionally used by nomads in the steppes of central Asia as their home

Ana Botín of Santander, UK