Things we're reading today include … Banks to back small firms with pledge to lend £1.3bn - The Independent Santander Bids $5.8 Billion for Polish Bank - Business Week US plans banker bonus crackdown - The Independent Autonomous to name Myners chairman - Financial Times Lord Myners: a pillar of the City anti-establishment - Financial Times FSA fines PR consultant £150,000 for insider trades - The Independent…
Things we're reading today include … Speech Jean-Claude Trichet: Economic and Monetary Union: What we have achieved and what we must do next -ECB JPMorgan 'ignored Bernard Madoff red flags' - The Telegraph British banks: Vickers in a twist - The Economist HSBC chief executive Stuart Gulliver in line for £9m bonus - The Telegraph Millionaire bankers' message to Britain: We're all…
Our biggest stories of the week are … Innovations in Banking in Action Finovate launched its first European show yesterday with over 400 attendees and 35 presentations from firms covering the whole gamete of financial services from investing to payments, personal financial management (a load of that!) to biometrics. All of them on the…
Things we're reading today include … Banker Christian Littlewood gets longest jail sentence for millions in insider trades - The Telegraph Citigroup suffers £2bn losses after taking control of EMI - The Telegraph New banking rules risk being 'rushed' - The Independent Could the UK live without The City? - BBC Visa shares fall on regulation fears - Financial Times Lloyds drops brokers over suspected…
Things we're reading today include … Banker Littlewood and wife face jail for millions in insider trades - The Telegraph HSBC bankers pocket huge pay rises this year - The Independent Why has the Bank of England boosted Mervyn King's pension? - The Telegraph Visa Europe and Wireless Dynamics Bring Contactless Payments to iPhone - Payments News Deutsche Bank - Financial Times FSA budget tops…
Things we're reading today include … Bank of America Top Bank Brand, Goldman Is 16th, Survey Finds - Business Week India: Identifying a billion Indians - The Economist Deutsche's profits below estimates - The Telegraph One in 20 'hit by scams in 2010' - BBC Bankers face shock over deferred bonuses - The Independent Ex-LSE director set to head up new watchdog - The Telegraph Competition pushes…
Things we're reading today include … Regulators and banks in cat-and-mouse game - Financial Times RBS to push into low-risk retail funds - The Independent Merkel, Ackermann Dispute Sovereign Debt Solution - Business Week Analyst Warns of 2015 Bank Crisis Amid ‘Upbeat’ Davos - Business Week Big banks to unveil £24 billion profits - The Telegraph Davos WEF 2011: Osborne calls time on banker bashing - The…
Our biggest stories of the week are … Banking in 2020 I’ve been asked recently to think about banking in 2020. That’s ten years away and, if we cast our memories back ten years, it’s quite a leap. Ten years ago, we had lots of themes bubbling away including customer-centricity, technological… If the banks…
Things we're reading today include … Barclays to stop offering branch advice – Financial Times Bank of America unit sued for fraud – Financial Times Banking’s ‘Toxic Cocktail’ Is Too Big to Forget: Simon Johnson – Business Week Bank watchdogs are damaging recovery, warns Barclays chief – The Independent eWise payo: A New Online Banking…
