Banker's Umbrella: A heartfelt defence of offshore banking

It's been a few weeks of on going banker bashing with us nasty offshore private bankers getting aggro, those from HSBC taking the brunt of it. The focus has been solely on the tax avoiding antics of clients of private banks in picturesque countries in Europe where they tend to speak many languages. Now, I'm fully aware that us offshore bankers have a rather tough job of garnering even a quantum of sympathy, but I'm still going to have a bit of a stab at it and state for the record that I don't think that all this vitriol towards my private banking brethren is entirely fair. Offshor...