Peter is charisma personified and in spite of his modesty, there is little reason to suspect he is a bozo. And as the man fueling Deutsche's ambitions to build the best equities platform in Asia, he is not short of a challenge.
Having met Ed on a few occasions I can testify that you walk out of the room after half an hour with Mr Peter thinking very different things to when you went in.
Which leads me to an aside. One of my favourite films is Casablanca and the financial journalist in me is always tickled by the moment when Rick stops a certain German gentleman from entering the 'cool' part of his...
