HSBC’s CEO Stuart Gulliver has put in a compelling early bid for Cunt Of The Year – he admits failure in “governance controls” at HSBC, former DPP Lord Macdonald says HSBC should face criminal charges for “engaging in a systematic and profitable collusion in serious criminal activity”, yet still Gulliver happily trousers bonuses worth millions which in the past he routinely sequestered in a Swiss bank account via a Panamanian corporate account.

When this was discovered, he eventually offered the risibly feeble excuse that he did so only to stop his colleagues finding out how much he got paid. Which is probably half-true since he most likely hid all his backhanders in those accounts too.

Just when you thought no banker could ever be more of a cunt than the last one to be exposed, along comes Gulliver to remind us all what loathsome criminal cunts bankers are.

Nominated by: Fred West