Vice President Elías Jaua, in a brief interview in Caracas after he voted, said the election had been "a transparent process taking place with normality".
"If there had been a transparent valuation paradigm... this never would have happened," said Sylvain Raynes, a founding principal of R&R Consulting in New York and a structured finance expert.
Commenting on the appointment process, Liz Forgan said: "This has been a thorough, transparent and, for the first time, international process.
Then we heard tales that Jeffrey Tambor, whose sympathetic portrayal of a transgender woman in Transparent has been a cultural game-changer, harassed trans women on set.
The response has been an increased emphasis on having a transparent business culture that is collaborative, exciting, fun and, ideally, technology driven.
But if the views of voters here are any indication, the tactic may have been a little too transparent to have that effect.
"We have been a profitable and transparent bank, with $538 million in profits in 2007," said Mr. Ablyazov in an interview through an interpreter in London.
Palin's opening gambit was transparent - it had been a clumsy attempt to place Biden on even-footing with her, but it did not work.
Its big runaway comedy hit of the last few years has been Transparent, a series where a family of listlessly mumbling entitled brats do nothing but relentlessly explore their navels in depressed ways.
