With fines, sweeping regulation and public opprobrium saturating the industry since the crisis, those who responded to FN’s City Job Satisfaction Survey have a clear message: enough is enough. But few want to say it out loud.

More than four years after Bob Diamond, then chief executive of Barclays, said the time for apology was over, nearly 200 respondents - around 63% - agreed that the financial industry should be moving past apologising for its conduct during the financial crisis and its aftermath.