Fans of the blood-on-the-carpet panel review will have been disappointed by Royal Bank of Scotland’s (RBS’s) recent shake-up, which has been executed with none of the incident and friction that marked out the bank’s 2003 bruising affair.

True to the advance notice, the process under Chris Campbell – a former Dundas & Wilson veteran and one of the smoothest products of Edinburgh’s famously convivial legal community – was largely about bridge-building and tightening relationships.