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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…

Things worth reading: 8th March 2012

Things we're reading today include … Take taxpayer stakes in RBS and Lloyds and create a wealth fundThe Telegraph Carlos Slim tops Forbes rich listBBC Hoban warns Brussels over 'disproportionate' regulationThe Telegraph Currency traders get that shrinking feelingFinancial Times Who will succeed Sir Mervyn King to become the next Governor of the Bank of England?The…

Things worth reading: 7th March 2012

Things we're reading today include … Lehman emerges from 3.5-year bankruptcy Reuters Lehman Brothers to pay $10bn to creditors after exiting bankruptcyThe Telegraph Santander UK management reshuffle ahead of floatThe Telegraph Cable calls for RBS to be splitBBC Citigroup to use smartest computer ever built to improve customer serviceThe Telegraph HSBC paid directors 64pc more…

Things worth reading: 7th March 2012

Things we're reading today include … Lehman emerges from 3.5-year bankruptcy Reuters Lehman Brothers to pay $10bn to creditors after exiting bankruptcyThe Telegraph Santander UK management reshuffle ahead of floatThe Telegraph Cable calls for RBS to be splitBBC Citigroup to use smartest computer ever built to improve customer serviceThe Telegraph HSBC paid directors 64pc more…

Things worth reading: 6th March 2012

Things we're reading today include: RBS attacked for 'streamlining'The Independent Barclays chief Bob Diamond to face new bonus rowThe Telegraph Barclaycard Introduces Crowdsourced Credit Card Payments News UK regulators review Libor bank lending rateThe Telegraph Is the Bank of England fit for purpose?The Telegraph Greece's fate in balance as banks mull rescue planThe Independent Iceland's former…

Things worth reading: 6th March 2012

Things we're reading today include: RBS attacked for 'streamlining'The Independent Barclays chief Bob Diamond to face new bonus rowThe Telegraph Barclaycard Introduces Crowdsourced Credit Card Payments News UK regulators review Libor bank lending rateThe Telegraph Is the Bank of England fit for purpose?The Telegraph Greece's fate in balance as banks mull rescue planThe Independent Iceland's former…

Things worth reading: 5th March 2012

Things we're reading today include … UK regulation cuts £18bn off HSBC's value, says GulliverThe Telegraph Gulliver's travels and the transformation of HSBCThe Telegraph Co-op's Lloyds deal at risk after FSA orders reformsThe Telegraph Rainmaker: Chancellor should heed LSE's plea for a cut in stamp duty to help small businessThe Telegraph Barclays taps ECB for…

The Finanser’s Week: 27th February – 4th March 2012

Our biggest stories of the week are … Monday fun Various cartoons and images amused me last week.  First was Brookes cartoon in the Times about Greek debt and, in the same newspaper, the uneasy ride that Angela Merkel is taking with Nicholas Sarkozy as they try to steer through this disaster and his upcoming…

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Things worth reading: 2nd March 2012

Things we're reading today include … RBS bankers to get most of bonus within four monthsThe Telegraph Anger as Lloyds pays new finance chief £6mThe Independent Lord Sassoon tipped as next Bank of England GovernorThe Telegraph Christine Lagarde's mission to save the global economy BBC UK banks snap up billions in cheap ECB loansThe Independent…

Things worth reading: 1st March 2012

Things we're reading today include … ECB provides 530bn euros of loansBBC European Central Bank's cheap money has just turned toxic banks into zombie banksThe Telegraph JP Morgan Chase 2012 Investor Day Presentations Payments News Ten most complained about financial businesses: in picturesThe Telegraph Standard Chartered posts ninth year of record profitsThe Telegraph If Britain were…

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