Bill Jamieson: Advisers put a brave face on our banking debacle

READING through the annual report of the joint industry advisory board covering Scotland's financial sector it is hard not to feel some sympathy for the authors.

To them has fallen the task of setting out the catastrophic debacle that has befallen the industry while at the same time talking up prospects for Scotland's financial services. RBS was brought low by a mistimed take-over, the shares collapsed and th...