he joined the banks central club, at age 46, the youngest president of the snb.m ended two years later for a trading scandal involving his then wife, leading to his resignation. mervyn king of the bank of england said, we all know he is a man of total integrity, extraordinary ability, and most part of all, courage. -- most important of all, courage. such people are rare. his country will miss him. hildebrand believes having courage to act in the face of adversity. when you are ahead of the us and become a what was your decisive moment? philipp: the rescue of ubs, which was a very difficult moment. in many ways it went against everything we believed in, yet we knew we needed to do it. we also knew it would create tremendous anger in the population. that was clear. of course it has turned out that way at a global level. that it would take a long time for banking to redeem itself. so we knew the consequences were in many ways very significant, and yet we had deep conviction that at that moment we had no choice but to proceed. the other one, obviously, was the introd