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The Finanser’s Week: 30th January – 5th February 2012

Our biggest stories of the week are … What the Facebook IPO means for banks I haven’t written much about social media lately. The reason is that it’s now mainstream and dull. When you're scanning future views, you’re not as bothered about Facebook and Twitter when everyone’s familiar with and using such services. Facebook's pervasiveness……

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Things worth reading: 3rd February 2012

Things we're reading today include … MasterCard profits sunk by litigation costsFinancial Times Deutsche Bank profits rise despite fourth-quarter lossThe Telegraph Debt crisis hits Deutsche profitsBBC Banker fears 'social time bomb'BBC VIDEO: Top banker warns of 'time-bomb'BBC   Hackers fool bank security systemBBC AUDIO: How safe is online banking?BBC   AUDIO: Bankers 'overreacted' to crisis…

Things worth reading: 3rd February 2012

Things we're reading today include … MasterCard profits sunk by litigation costsFinancial Times Deutsche Bank profits rise despite fourth-quarter lossThe Telegraph Debt crisis hits Deutsche profitsBBC Banker fears 'social time bomb'BBC VIDEO: Top banker warns of 'time-bomb'BBC   Hackers fool bank security systemBBC AUDIO: How safe is online banking?BBC   AUDIO: Bankers 'overreacted' to crisis…

Things worth reading: 2nd February 2012

Things we're reading today include … Backlash fear as Sir Victor Blank pressed over knighthoodThe Telegraph Criticism over Goodwin 'hysteria'BBC   EU blocks NYSE Euronext merger with Deutsche BorseThe Telegraph EU Rejects Deutsche Boerse-NYSE MergerBusiness Week EU blocks merger of NYSE-DeutscheBBC   'Dead' trader found working in Las Vegas casino fined $90,000The Telegraph Michael Grimes:…

Things worth reading: 2nd February 2012

Things we're reading today include … Backlash fear as Sir Victor Blank pressed over knighthoodThe Telegraph Criticism over Goodwin 'hysteria'BBC   EU blocks NYSE Euronext merger with Deutsche BorseThe Telegraph EU Rejects Deutsche Boerse-NYSE MergerBusiness Week EU blocks merger of NYSE-DeutscheBBC   'Dead' trader found working in Las Vegas casino fined $90,000The Telegraph Michael Grimes:…

Things worth reading: 1st February 2012

Things we're reading today include … Banco Santander profits plunge 98 per centThe Independent London Mayor says 'bonjour' to banks fleeing French taxThe Telegraph Former RBS chief executive Fred Goodwin stripped of his knighthoodThe Telegraph Deutsche Bank faces post-Ackermann futureFinancial Times Commerzbank boss says bonus case bankers 'motivated by money not loyalty'The Telegraph Draghi Stuck…

Things worth reading: 1st February 2012

Things we're reading today include … Banco Santander profits plunge 98 per centThe Independent London Mayor says 'bonjour' to banks fleeing French taxThe Telegraph Former RBS chief executive Fred Goodwin stripped of his knighthoodThe Telegraph Deutsche Bank faces post-Ackermann futureFinancial Times Commerzbank boss says bonus case bankers 'motivated by money not loyalty'The Telegraph Draghi Stuck…

Things worth reading: 31st January 2012

Things we're reading today include … Taxman 'denied £500,000' as Stephen Hester waives £1m RBS bonus The Telegraph Hounded Hester exposes RBS to pack of meddlersFinancial Times RBS top bankers set to share £30m bonus potThe Telegraph FSA chief Hector Sants says sorry for RBS failureThe Telegraph   Adoboli trial risks getting under UBS’s skinFinancial…

Things worth reading: 31st January 2012

Things we're reading today include … Taxman 'denied £500,000' as Stephen Hester waives £1m RBS bonus The Telegraph Hounded Hester exposes RBS to pack of meddlersFinancial Times RBS top bankers set to share £30m bonus potThe Telegraph FSA chief Hector Sants says sorry for RBS failureThe Telegraph   Adoboli trial risks getting under UBS’s skinFinancial…

Things worth reading: 30th January 2012

Things we're reading today include … RBS to pay investment bankers £1.5bn settlementThe Telegraph The questions MPs need to ask FSA's Hector Sants and Lord Turner over RBSThe Telegraph RBS chief executive Stephen Hester refuses £1m bonusThe Telegraph RBS chairman waives share awardThe Telegraph RBS chairman Sir Philip Hampton turned down £1.4m bonus before Stephen…