ARRIVAL OF A DEAD swan was enough to raise fears of bird flu ripping through Britain, so the financial City is going to run a programme to find out how it would cope with a real pandemic, says the Guardian .
The length of the six-week exercise will be unprecedented for the City, as every Friday for six weeks starting on October 13, more than 60 organisations in the City will be asked to react to a new scenario about a pretend bird flu disaster. When the exercise ends on November 24, it is expected the FSA will better know how the City would cope with reduced staffing levels and the knock-on effect this might have on essential services such as transport, power and telecoms. ROYAL Bank OF Scotland is planning to tap into China’s emerging middle classes and target 50,000 new private banking clie...
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