How the Asian model has marred bank acquisitions

Imperial Bank head office at westlands.

Nairobi is for the wittiest. You buy a phone on the street or some item from a hawker and when you get home it may just turn out to be a trick and you have clay in the shell of a phone or of rags Louis Vuitton replica you thought you had grabbed at a bargain.

You would think that corporate boardrooms are any different. They are not. Both new and experienced players have been sold a gaping hole after owners of very reputable banks exited.