Letters from editor Clive Horwood and managing director John Orchard.

The scourge of short termism.

The father of international finance in the 1960s.

Crossing bridges before you come to them.

Europe can build a more integrated system.

Lead by example.

The first global banker, from the 1970s.

Master of reinvention.

AML needs a European solution.

Regulate big tech or deregulate banks.

The technology pioneer of the 1980s.

If you missed the US train, catch the one in China.

Banking is a secondary need.

Efficient banks will win the digital race.

The giant of European banking in the 1990s.

In 2005, Euromoney started its Off the Record column, because we had noticed that many bankers could not stop themselves from spouting hyperbole, humour and hubris when the conversation went 'on background'. Here are some of the choicest sound bites from the last 14 years.

What is it like to run a leading bank today? What are the key lessons they have learned during their careers? Who are their mentors? And how will technology affect their business? Euromoney has been on a global tour of top bank chief executives to find out.

Banks must continuously adapt.

People rise to the top of the agenda.

Usefulness as necessity.

Master of the merger of the 2000s.

Making the most of being American.

Digital banking blurs boundaries.

The relevance of history.

Will we look back in 30 years and say this was truly an amazing time to be in banking? I hope so.

For 50 years Euromoney has provided unique stories on the biggest events in financial markets, and now we can reveal our secret – we were in the room at the time. Here’s how landmark events such as the collapse of LTCM and Lehman Brothers actually played out. From the imagination of Jon Macaskill.

2006: In the approach to the 2008 global financial crisis, Euromoney became concerned about hidden risks and complications in the structured credit markets (from the imagination of Jon Macaskill).

2018: Euromoney was involved in the succession planning at Goldman Sachs and proposed a bold experiment in digital banking recruitment (from the imagination of Jon Macaskill).

1985: The era when the City of London went global (from the imagination of Jon Macaskill).

2008: While the GFC raged, Euromoney had an inside view as politicians on both sides of the Atlantic tried to save the banking system (from the imagination of Jon Macaskill).