Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Bourne International, Saving Private Banker or Debt of Dis-Honor or The Tax Return or Paycheck II?

If HSBC's Swiss Private Bank wasn't already in enough hot water over its stolen client data, the thief has more tales to tell: http://www.wealth-bulletin.com/wealth-business/content/4058543984/

Hervé now claims international espionage and intrigue. We have the Mossad, we have the Lebanese Hezbollah.

Geez, we need Matt Damon as Jason Bourne who's now assigned to go behind enemy lines and rescue Hervé and bring him to safety in France....Saving Private Hervé (OK he wasn't really a PB but that's literary license). We could also have Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan who analyzes Hervé's CD of data and uncovers a plot by the TARP-rescued, re-branded International Bank of Business and Credit (IBBC) to start (and of course provide financing at 300bps for) a world war. Let's get Clive Owen to reprise his Louis Salinger role to take down the scoundrels at IBBC. How about Tom Cruise as a Grisham-ish tax attorney helping his client re-file his tax return within the amnesty deadline in light of the disclosure of his undeclared IBBC bank account? Maybe throw in Ben Affleck as a reverse engineer who has built IBBC's client data encryption software all but now only has clues to help him remember. No movie is complete without George Clooney so he's Michael Clayton, with a new law firm representing IBBC in their legal fight against the IRS.

Life is indeed stranger than fiction.

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