Lawyers and bankers often work through the night to force through a deal.

The bankers worked with Enron to arrange the partnerships, which made the company appear more profitable than it was.

Stationed at regional offices around the country, the bankers work hand in hand with the firm's 14,000 brokers.

But after hours, American lawyers, bankers and hedge fund managers who work in the neighborhood frequent the place, too.

Now that those barriers have largely fallen, American bankers are working to overcome a more familiar one: declining stock markets.

Invest-ment bankers were working the phones, urging corporate clients to start buying back their own shares.

Why, then, do central bankers work so hard to be taken so seriously?

Advertising executives, lawyers, media movers and bankers, who had paid $50 each to have an authentic runway experience, worked the party before the show.

Why don't we get bankers to work for 5 pounds an hour?

Assuming that 30 bankers worked 24 hours a day for three weeks, that works out to 15,120 hours.