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Things worth reading: 5th September 2013

Things we're reading today include … Afghan bank clerk nabs 1m dollars VIDEO: Can this man turn round India's banks? Exclusive: NY regulator probes European banks over Turkish family FCA swap mis-selling scheme pays out just £500,000 in compensation Stuart Rose joins HSBC as retail adviser European insurers spent 9 billion euros on regulation: report…

Things worth reading: the European View

This month's view from Europe, courtesy of Edith Rigler: German consumers fear on-line banking – Handelsblatt, 22 August 2013 According to a study by Bitkom, the IT association in Germany, more than one-third of German consumers are concerned about lack of security in internet banking and thus refrain from it. Compared to a survey conducted last…

Things worth reading: the European View

This month's view from Europe, courtesy of Edith Rigler: German consumers fear on-line banking – Handelsblatt, 22 August 2013 According to a study by Bitkom, the IT association in Germany, more than one-third of German consumers are concerned about lack of security in internet banking and thus refrain from it. Compared to a survey conducted last…

Things worth reading: 4th September 2013

Things we're reading today include … Treasury Mulls Plan For £30bn RBS Bad Bank Boss promises 'seamless' TSB launch Former Co-op director Roger Gorvin attacks 'unethical' bank over rescue Co-op Bank loan value 'deficit' grows to £3.6bn Wonga posts £84.5m profit as one million people draw payday loans Wonga shrugs off critics as profits jump…

Things worth reading: 3rd September 2013

Things we're reading today include … Complaints against UK banks rise by 15 percent: Ombudsman Stock offering plans by China's banks seen as short-term fix Co-op 'in cloud cuckoo land' over refusal to talk to bondholders Lawyers at top City firm 'earning minimum £1.3m a year' Citigroup sheds more than $6 billion in PE, hedge…

Things worth reading: 3rd September 2013

Things we're reading today include … Complaints against UK banks rise by 15 percent: Ombudsman Stock offering plans by China's banks seen as short-term fix Co-op 'in cloud cuckoo land' over refusal to talk to bondholders Lawyers at top City firm 'earning minimum £1.3m a year' Citigroup sheds more than $6 billion in PE, hedge…

Things worth reading: 2nd September 2013

Things we're reading today include … Banks 'dump' thousands of loyal customers Author nails Fred Goodwin's colours to the past of RBS Deutsche Bank CFO: regulation has priority over dividend – paper HSBC to cease wealth management business in some MidEast countries Ackermann feared suicide would thwart Zurich performance drive UK banks pay £1bn to…

Things worth reading: 2nd September 2013

Things we're reading today include … Banks 'dump' thousands of loyal customers Author nails Fred Goodwin's colours to the past of RBS Deutsche Bank CFO: regulation has priority over dividend – paper HSBC to cease wealth management business in some MidEast countries Ackermann feared suicide would thwart Zurich performance drive UK banks pay £1bn to…

The Finanser’s Week: 26th August – 1st September 2013

Our biggest stories of the past week are … The five greatest risks to banks Banks are considered to be stable, reliant and dull by the world, or that’s what we would like them to be. Instead banks are inherently risk managers, as we have now specifically realised in the past five years. Banks can……

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The Finanser’s Week: 26th August – 1st September 2013

Our biggest stories of the past week are … The five greatest risks to banks Banks are considered to be stable, reliant and dull by the world, or that’s what we would like them to be. Instead banks are inherently risk managers, as we have now specifically realised in the past five years. Banks can……

Invest Northern Ireland

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