1.   Prodi has also given big jobs to two ex-prime ministers, both former central bankers.

2.   Whitley, a willowy former City banker, peppered his talk with literary bon mots and some distinctly fast verse.

3.   Some are Oxbridge educated former merchant bankers, others came up from the shop floor, but they all have some things in common.

4.   Analysts expect Amnuay Viravan, a former banker and diplomat, to be named as Finance Minister to restore investor confidence in the flagging Thai economy.

5.   As the Whitman cuts took hold, though, the former Wall Street investment banker had to find ways to raise money to avoid a budget shortfall.

6.   As part of a far-reaching shake-up of the board, Coles said that trucking company owner Lindsay Fox and former banker Will Bailey will quit the board.

7.   Berlusconi was succeeded by Lamberto Dini, a former central banker who was named to head a government of nonpolitical technocrats.

8.   Bezos, now many times a billionaire, hired a number of other former bankers and made them Internet retailers.

9.   A former banker who lived for a time in New York, Milosevic is a shrewd and cunning political broker, savvy to Western wants and ways.

10.   A former banker and financial bureaucrat, the bespectacled Zedillo appears most at ease citing trade statistics and unemployment figures.