June 22, 2009

The Financial News Veterans of Finance is a list of senior executives in Europe who have stayed the course. We have polled readers and our contacts across the market to profile executives who have been in the industry for more than 30 years, and while the list is by no means exhaustive, we believe it is a good reflection of the people who have shaped financial services over the past few decades.

They have lived through the ups and downs of the financial markets, wars, the passing of investment trends and fads, oil crises, stock market crashes, the rise of regulations and many more events. Collectively, the people featured in these pages have 1,570 years of experience in finance. If you were to lay their records end to end, it would put a girdle around the earth.