Anglo trial profile: John Bowe - ‘We have a big funny with Permo’

John Bowe studied accounting and finance in Dublin City University and left there in 1986, joining Standard Chartered Bank (Ireland) Ltd as a graduate trainee.

In 1990 the business was acquired by West LB and around this time he began working with corporate clients. In 1997, he left West LB and joined ABN Amro Bank. In late April 2001 he joined Anglo Irish Bank as head of debt capital markets (DCM).

This was a new sub-division of the treasury division of the bank and his role was two-fold: To attract funding from professional investors who purchased bank bonds for an agreed return, and secondly, the setting up of a team to develop business work with the approximately 350 banks worldwide Anglo dealt with.