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This time Ro books his flight for late Sunday night. He’ll get a good night’s sleep and be fresh for the meeting with Oakbank on the Monday and Tuesday. The gentleman at concierge in the hotel comments on his quick return and proceeds to grant Ro a room upgrade with water views. The bathroom includes a bath, the bed is king size, there is a couch and dining table. Not that Ro will really need all these perks but it may be nice not having to eat room service with the tray balancing on one’s legs. Ro drops his bags and hangs his suit in the shower and runs the shower on full hot. He turns on the bath deciding to have a soak before eating dinner. He packed a bottle of Syrah from the Rhone Valley in France and now was the time to drink it. With the bathroom door closed the steam completely fills the room and restores his suit to its creaseless best. Unfortunately it means the television at the foot of the bath is fogged up. Ro dries his hands and picks up his blackberry. It has a detailed email from Sam with clear instructions on the plan for the Oakbank engagement. This was a different deal to Project Hercules, the takeover of the Jonathan Forest broking business. This was a mutual consented arrangement for the two banks’ broking businesses to get together and see if there was any opportunity to join forces. It would be similar in the way that they would break into forums for product insights, people and compliance, technology and strategy and business case. Ro was back in the product insights forum.