Things worth reading: 14th March 2014

Things we're reading today include …

• Investment bankers at Barclays brace for cull
• Barclays to shake up investment bank
• Barclays to review the shape and size of its investment bank: Sources

• Rogue bankers and their bosses face six years bonus clawbacks
• Singapore tackles virtual currencies
• RBS restructuring will 'heavily depress' profits, warns Moody's
• Fed looked into forex first but failed to act
• Bank of America back in court over $2.1 billion fraud penalties
• UBS CEO's pay rises by a fifth to $12.3 million in 2013
• SMEs pushed into open arms of alternative funders
• Citi looks to weather storm at Mexican unit
• The furtive folk of global finance
• China slowdown spooks markets as Premier Li Keqiang warns of 'severe challenges' ahead
• A Look at the Evolution of Payments in Southern Africa

This week's Economist:

• Free exchange: Money from nothing
• China’s economy: An alternative view
• Bitcoin’s future: Hidden flipside
• China’s banking: March of the banks