Weekly Meeting

Razor Blades and Baseball Bats

A lot has changed in the banking world over the past 3 decades since the days when all transactions were hand written into the ledger books under the beady eye of a strict supervisor - always a lady - with a razor blade at the ready to erase any mistakes. So said our own member Alex Mcdougall when delivering a witty and highly entertaining job talk to the Club.

Alex recalled some of his early memories of going out to houses on debt collecting duties with the Clydesdale Bank, always choosing the biggest office colleague as minder, through to his present role with Swedish bank Handelsbanken, where overnight Alex learned to become a property manager and furniture buyer in setting up the new Perth office from scratch.

Following the carefree lending policies of the 90