Brown unable to attract bankers to New York meeting - papers

Although invitations to a number of Wall Street's biggest banks are known to have been sent, only one senior US banker, 52-year Citigroup veteran Bill Rhodes - who stepped down as chairman of Citigroup North America in July but remains on its board - attended yesterday's economic roundtable. That compares poorly to the two previous such meetings the Prime Minister has hosted in the city during the credit crisis, when big names including star hedge fund manager George Soros and JP Morgan Chase chairman Jamie Dimon showed up. Instead, the meeting largely drew US representatives of British-...