It’s widely held that poachers make the best gamekeepers- various police forces have tried to make use of reformed criminal minds over the years to solve and/or prevent crimes . When the see was set up to regulate American stock Markets, it made a smart choice in picking uber – Scamster Joseph P Kennedy. So maybe there is some glimmer of sense in The FSA appointing Nomura chairman Colin Marshall as a senior adviser on corporate governance just two days after it fined the firm £1.75m for systems and controls failings along with four other senior advisers who have been appointed to work on governance and authorisation under the FSA’s new intensive supervision of significant influence functions within firms (these include an adviser to recently-fined UBS, a director of Carphone Warehouse, which was fined by the FSA in 2006, and an adviser to Morgan Stanley, which was fined earlier this year.)