Iain Anderson, the commission's supervisor in Scotland, was guided to the crash site last year by David "Heavy" Whalley, a former RAF Kinloss Mountain Rescue team leader.
South Korea's financial supervisor, the Financial Services Commission, began considering HSBC's application to acquire KEB only in late July, even though HSBC filed the application more than six months ago.
She ruled that the state oil and gas supervisor in charge of the commission as a state agency acted reasonably in evaluating requests for trade secret exemptions under the fracking disclosure rule.
But even before the European Commission this month rushed out its proposals for a banking supervisor (an offshoot of the ECB), Germany was undermining the deal.