Things we're reading today include …
MP urges probe into HBOS loans (BBC)
German debts set to blow 'like a grenade'
(Telegraph)
Iceland asks parliament to start EU talks
(Euractiv)
Integration and innovation – The Alpha and Omega of a successful retail payments market in Europe, speech by Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the ECB
Hank Paulson Admits He Never Really Understood How Mortgage-Backed Securities Worked
(Consumerist)
Green shoots set to wither, warns Nobel Prize winner (Independent)
Post-trade suffers heat of regulation (Financial Times)
Private equity in banking (Financial Times)
Financial Sector Cybersecurity Issues (Information Security Resources)