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Now let’s be clear here: this was fair enough: NatWest had priced its lending operation so as to avoid this risk. It would be bad business for a bank not to exercise a valuable option. But all the same, it still managed to look like a big, bad bank. | Now let’s be clear here: this was fair enough: NatWest had priced its lending operation so as to avoid this risk. It would be bad business for a bank not to exercise a valuable option. But all the same, it still managed to look like a big, bad bank. | ||
==NatWest’s errors== | |||
Schoolboy error no.1 was to have notice deadline which expired during the Christmas holiday period, when Greenclose was highly likely to be out of the office. But that’s as may be. In fairness, it's not outlandish to expect a hotel to be open in the Christmas holidays. But generally, don't have your options expire between Christmas and New Year. | Schoolboy error no.1 was to have notice deadline which expired during the Christmas holiday period, when Greenclose was highly likely to be out of the office. But that’s as may be. In fairness, it's not outlandish to expect a hotel to be open in the Christmas holidays. But generally, don't have your options expire between Christmas and New Year. | ||
{{Box|'''Learning Number 1''': Don’t set options that expire in when everyone's likely to be out of the office.}} | {{Box|'''Learning Number 1''': Don’t set options that expire in when everyone's likely to be out of the office.}} | ||
Error no. 2 – less of a schoolboy one, in this reviewer’s opinion – was to presume that an [[email]], being, after all, an '''electronic''' mail '''message''' sent over a computer '''system''' (so sayeth [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email Wikipedia]) fell within the meaning of an “[[electronic messaging system]]”. | Error no. 2 – less of a schoolboy one, in this reviewer’s opinion – was to presume that an [[email]], being, after all, an '''electronic''' mail '''message''' sent over a computer '''system''' (so sayeth [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email Wikipedia]) fell within the meaning of an “[[electronic messaging system]]”. | ||
===[[Email]] is not an [[electronic messaging system]]?=== | ===[[Email]] is not an [[electronic messaging system]]?=== | ||