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Things worth reading, the European view

Financial Services Club member and good colleague Edith Rigler has started to look for key headline grabbing views from the German / European media that is aligned with the Financial Services Club's common themes of future banking, regulation, the Eurozone, payments, investment markets, retail banking and future technologies. In the first of her regular submissions, here…

Things worth reading: 14th March 2012

Things we're reading today include … RBS and Lloyds cut 1,764 jobsThe Telegraph Ex-HBoS executive admits FSA 'worries'The Telegraph VIDEO: EU debates financial transaction taxBBC What is the Tobin Tax?The Telegraph Temenos pulls out of Misys takeover fightThe Independent The cost of Greek 'credit event'BBC RBS and Lloyds cut 1,764 jobsThe Telegraph Markets recover as…

Things worth reading: 14th March 2012

Things we're reading today include … RBS and Lloyds cut 1,764 jobsThe Telegraph Ex-HBoS executive admits FSA 'worries'The Telegraph VIDEO: EU debates financial transaction taxBBC What is the Tobin Tax?The Telegraph Temenos pulls out of Misys takeover fightThe Independent The cost of Greek 'credit event'BBC RBS and Lloyds cut 1,764 jobsThe Telegraph Markets recover as…

Things worth reading: 13th March 2012

Things we're reading today include … Warning over 'real' anger at banks in BritainThe Independent Banks failed to heed public anger, warns BoE governor Sir Mervyn KingThe Telegraph Banks warn 'hostility will push us' abroad after King attackThe Telegraph   Temenos drops out of Misys bid raceFinancial Times Richard Branson hikes cost of credit for…

Things worth reading: 13th March 2012

Things we're reading today include … Warning over 'real' anger at banks in BritainThe Independent Banks failed to heed public anger, warns BoE governor Sir Mervyn KingThe Telegraph Banks warn 'hostility will push us' abroad after King attackThe Telegraph   Temenos drops out of Misys bid raceFinancial Times Richard Branson hikes cost of credit for…

Things worth reading: 12th March 2012

Things we're reading today include … Regulator eager to sooth insurers over tough rulesThe Independent Bank capital calls added to instability, says BISFinancial Times Call for inquiry into bank mis-selling scandalThe Telegraph How the derivatives sold by the banks workThe Telegraph LSE to grab a big slice of LCH.ClearnetThe Independent NatWest Three: FSA inquiries into…

Things worth reading: 12th March 2012

Things we're reading today include … Regulator eager to sooth insurers over tough rulesThe Independent Bank capital calls added to instability, says BISFinancial Times Call for inquiry into bank mis-selling scandalThe Telegraph How the derivatives sold by the banks workThe Telegraph LSE to grab a big slice of LCH.ClearnetThe Independent NatWest Three: FSA inquiries into…

The Finanser’s Week: 5th March – 11th March 2012

Our biggest stories of the week are … Sustainable values-based banks outperform traditional mainstream banks I'm putting this on the blog, because we have a meeting planned for March 26th that will talk all about sustainable banking: A new study shows that sustainable values-based banks, which base their decisions first and foremost on the needs… …

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The Finanser’s Week: 5th March – 11th March 2012

Our biggest stories of the week are … Sustainable values-based banks outperform traditional mainstream banks I'm putting this on the blog, because we have a meeting planned for March 26th that will talk all about sustainable banking: A new study shows that sustainable values-based banks, which base their decisions first and foremost on the needs… …

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Things worth reading: 9th March 2012

Things we're reading today include … RBS' Dutch investment banking arm returns to ABN AmroThe Telegraph ABN Amro collapse gives rise to dramaFinancial Times Allied Irish Banks axing 2,500 jobsThe Independent BTG Pactual’s initial public offering: Better Than Goldman?The Economist    Smart cards for trains extendedBBC UK Green Investment Bank to be based in London…

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