Things worth reading: 29th January 2016

Things we’re reading today include …

• TransferWise losses widen sixfold after massive growth push
• Investment banking plagues Deutsche Bank
• City watchdogs open probe into HBOS directors
• Sixth man in Libor trial acquitted
• Bank of Japan adopts negative interest rates – video
• Fed owns up to global risks in statement shift
• TSB profits fall as it spends to win new customers
• Barclays faces ‘£1bn lawsuit’ over 2008 financial crisis deal
• HSBC online banking glitch on key day
• George Osborne delays final sell-off of Lloyds shares due to market turmoil
• Barclays faces £700m legal action
• Is it time to halt the rise of ETFs?
• It’s time to replace the SFO with a new body

This week’s Economist:

• The crazy world of credit
• The Italian job
• Against the odds
• The wages of sin
• Chop chop