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Things worth reading: 3rd October 2013

Things we're reading today include … Cyber Crime: Banks Ordered To Bolster Defences A regulator and market expert look back on the bank bailout five years later India tops World Bank chart of remittances Standard Chartered, DBS, HSBC among bidders for SocGen Asia private bank -sources SEC throws spoke into derivatives shake-up Dimon: Obama meeting…

Things worth reading: 2nd October 2013

Things we're reading today include … Regulators to have power to eject bank bosses under stress test plans Bad bank chiefs face ousting or, at worst, seven years' in jail Banks braced for tough new regime of annual stress tests Bankers may be jailed under new law Over-complicated RBS must lend more, says new boss…

Things worth reading: 2nd October 2013

Things we're reading today include … Regulators to have power to eject bank bosses under stress test plans Bad bank chiefs face ousting or, at worst, seven years' in jail Banks braced for tough new regime of annual stress tests Bankers may be jailed under new law Over-complicated RBS must lend more, says new boss…

Little donkey … oh no, it’s a money mule!

I just went to a really interesting meeting where the head of fraud for one of the major banks presented their approach to money mules. Pic from eCybercrime A money mule is a bit like a drugs mule, someone who is carrying out illicit activities on behalf of others. His definition is that a money…

Mule

Little donkey … oh no, it’s a money mule!

I just went to a really interesting meeting where the head of fraud for one of the major banks presented their approach to money mules. Pic from eCybercrime A money mule is a bit like a drugs mule, someone who is carrying out illicit activities on behalf of others. His definition is that a money…

Mule

Things worth reading: 1st October 2013

Things we're reading today  include … RBS to spend £300m on new bank's IT Bank of America in record settlement over 'robocall' complaints Exclusive – Vatican Bank likely to close embassy accounts after Iran, Iraq red flags U.S. study says asset managers could pose systemic market risk Legal hitch delays Barclays' attempt to stop trading…

Things worth reading: 1st October 2013

Things we're reading today  include … RBS to spend £300m on new bank's IT Bank of America in record settlement over 'robocall' complaints Exclusive – Vatican Bank likely to close embassy accounts after Iran, Iraq red flags U.S. study says asset managers could pose systemic market risk Legal hitch delays Barclays' attempt to stop trading…

Things worth reading: 30th September 2013

Things we're reading today include … RBS to create new challenger bank under revived 'Williams & Glyn's' brand Paul Gascoigne Claims His Bank Account Hacked Bank To The Future targets £1.5m to grow ICG set to issue biggest CLO since crisis Absa Capital wins regulatory approval for South African palladium ETF Financial crisis ‘led to the loss of…

Things worth reading: 30th September 2013

Things we're reading today include … RBS to create new challenger bank under revived 'Williams & Glyn's' brand Paul Gascoigne Claims His Bank Account Hacked Bank To The Future targets £1.5m to grow ICG set to issue biggest CLO since crisis Absa Capital wins regulatory approval for South African palladium ETF Financial crisis ‘led to the loss of…

The Finanser’s Week: 23rd September – 29th September 2013

Our biggest stories of the past week are … Humans 1.0: banking is in our monkey genes We think our behaviours are unique. Our attitude to money is innately human and our ideas of value are something that homo sapiens have created through distorted wealth systems. Wrong. We have our sense of economics inbuilt through…

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