When news of eZubao broke, it was treated as a financial system morality play where China's uncontrolled, "shadow" market flourishes because it satisfies economic impulses the rigidly controlled "official" markets cannot fulfil.
Given the high financial stakes involved, morality clauses often are heavily negotiated, writes attorney Andrew Zarriello in a 2015 article in the Boston College Law Review.
Ram Gidoomal, eminent businessman and public figure, said 'business must make the appropriate choices' when confronted by a choice between financial returns and morality.
His research focuses on technology and cognition, consumer financial decision-making, and morality.
In that elision between morality and financial returns is much that's gone wrong with the governing classes.
Social drama, denied the use of political issues by censorship, confined itself to the tension between new money and old social position, the morality of financial speculation, and the threat to family life posed by extramarital sexual relationships all themes touched upon previously in light comedy (in, for example, the plays of Eugène Scribe).
For the left-leaning French newspaper Liberation, Mr Fillon has "built his political personality around an image of rigour, sobriety, financial sacrifice and public morality.
They identified these key virtues: A global interdisciplinary perspective; long-term, empirical planning; strong communication skills; a prioritization of social justice and wellbeing over financial growth; empathy; courage; morality; and a collaborative nature.
St Paul's has its own chinese wall, with contentious political and economic issues dealt with by the St Paul's Institute, which, according to its website, exists "to engage the financial world with questions of morality and ethics".
