Richard Lambert, before concerning himself with bankers’ education should think about bank regulators’

Sir, I refer to John Gapper’s “There is no such thing as the banking profession” February 13.

There Gapper writes that an option favored, among others by Sir Richard Lambert, head of UK’s Banking Standards Review, “is to encourage bankers to take professional exams and rebuild their sense of pride and identity. Bad bankers might be struck off by professional bodies”

Good idea, but what about the professional exams for bank regulators which right now seems of even urgent importance.

You know Sir I hold this because bank regulators who decide to use perceived risk of expected losses to set the capital requirements for banks, that which is primarily to cover for any unexpected losses, evidence they do not know what they are doing. With their amateurism they not only created this crisis, by making banks create dangerous exposures to what is “absolutely safe”, but they also keep us from getting out of the crisis, by de-incentivizing banks from lending to “risky” medium and small businesses, entrepreneurs and start-ups.

So please, enroll regulators in a Bank Regulations 101 course… as fast as possible. With their distortions they have put the current generation on the track of becoming a lost one.