The GMB union warned that delays could now derail what it described as an "essential infrastructureproject", which would be "a disaster" for employment.
But he added that government believed Crossrail funding decision was "an appropriate course of action to deliver a very complex and unique infrastructureproject within the delivery timetable".
And because the ICB seems to think that a standalone bank could usefully have an existing infrastructure, that makes a link between Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks and the Project Verde assets make more sense.
Cearley points to IBM's project to modernize the State Bank of Vietnam's infrastructure as an example of the kind of business whose growth isn't like to slow.
The UID project facilitates this by enabling the opening of bank accounts as well as by providing aninfrastructure for payments and remittances across this vast country.