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AMSTERDAM - Speaking at the launch of God at Work in Holland, Ken Costa says that the international credit crisis is not just an operational accident, but a serious ethical crisis.

Reliance calls on Ken Costa to broker £35bn MTN deal The Times has reported that Ken Costa, has been appointed by Reliance Communications, the second largest Indian mobile company, to advise on its negotiations with MTN, Africa’s largest wireless group.

Some extracts from Lunch with the FT.

As the World Economic Forum gets underway in Davos, Ken Costa writes in The Times. The banking crisis, politicial tensions and the threat of terrorism fuel international fear…

  Following his departure from UBS and on gardening leave until he starts with Lazard, Ken Costa has been in South Africa, where he was interviewed by Business Day.

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‘…Whatever happened to moral responsibility among the financial institutions? Do their employees have no conscience at all?

Comment from the FT’s live financial markets blog. ‘No bank…would survive the promised return of Christ.’ So says Ken Costa, the vice-chairman of investment banking at UBS, reports the FT’s people column…

‘Investment bankers are not often thought to harbour religious beliefs, other than a desire to bow down before the altar of mammon. Ken Costa has set out to challenge that view by publishing a book called God at Work: Living every day with purpose.

City stalwart explains the influence of evangelical Christianity on his everyday business life in his newly published book God at Work The Times, Business, Monday 14th March 2007