‘F-bomb’ banker fingered

The Standard Chartered Bank executive whose expletive-filled anti-US rant stands at the center of allegations that the bank improperly did business with Iran appears to be Richard Meddings, the NY Post reports.  Meddings, 54, the Oxford-educated finance director at the UK bank, angrily dismissed concerns by his New York colleagues in 2006 that doing business with Iran’s despotic regime could sully the bank’s image, it is alleged.

“You f—ing Americans,” Meddings shot back. “Who are you to tell us, the rest of the world, that we’re not going to deal with Iranians?”

The rant was contained in a report by New York’s Department of Financial Services, which may suspend Standard’s banking charter because it did business with Iran for nearly 10 years — in violation of US law.

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