Things we're reading today include … Nationalised lender Northern Rock loses £232m - The Independent Facebook To Sell Digital Media with Credits: Challenges and Opportunities - Payments News Banks dip into tool box for Basel III - Financial Times Two property tycoons are arrested - BBC New Lloyds chief shakes up operations - The Independent Virtual High Street 'is growing' - BBC Credit and debit card fraud…
Things we're reading today include … Santander's Ana Patricia Botin Plans U.K. IPO - Business Week Lloyds boss to oust senior executives - The Telegraph EU Parliament approves Tobin tax on transactions - The Telegraph US insider trading trial begins - BBC Top Goldman executives on Galleon witness list - Financial Times Google snaps up UK comparison site - The Independent Commerzbank bankers given go ahead by…
Things we're reading today include … UK bank bonuses vs US bank bonuses - The Telegraph MEPs vote on short-selling rules - BBC NYSE Technologies unions in walkout call - Financial Times RBS had 'six lessons' to learn from bank's collapse - The Telegraph Monsters that lurk in the shadows of Wall St - Financial Times Lib Dem urges bank share giveaway - BBC Goldman economist to…
Things we're reading today include … Raj Rajaratnam: Wall Street's biggest insider trading trial in a generation: a Q&A - The Telegraph Mervyn King interview - The Telegraph Delay in City watchdog's report on the rescue of RBS - The Independent EU begins new bank stress tests - BBC Peseta back in use in Spain town - BBC Bob Diamond interview: a new dawn breaks…
Our biggest stories of the week are … Survey: are payments infrastructures fit for purpose? We've had a lot of dialogue about interoperability and the difficulties of getting all the pipes and plumbing of payments to work together. The real question is whether payments processors are meeting the challenges of the world of 2011?…
Things we're reading today include … Derivatives: Unlucky for some - The Economist Don't punish the banks that performed best - Financial Times China's banks: Cognitive dissonance - The Economist Micro manoeuvres - BBC Yunus opens legal fight over dismissal - Financial Times Santander, BlackRock Chase Citi Consumer Unit - Business Week Galleon Group: The charging of Rajat Gupta - The Economist
Things we're reading today include … Money trail - BBC UBS chief Oswald Grübel slams UK for neglecting City - The Telegraph Credit card borrower 'tortured' - BBC Apple Updates Payments Stats - Payments News Sharp drop in Standard Chartered tax payment - The Telegraph UBS prepares for a less glamorous future - Financial Times ESMA watchdog prepared to clash with Brussels - Financial Times
Things we're reading today include … Banks write off 25% more debt - The Independent Lloyds Banking Group launches strategic review - The Telegraph Ex-Goldman Sachs director charged - BBC Fake money - BBC Swedish Banks, Policymakers Clash on Buffers - Business Week Rising to the top at McKinsey - Financial Times Barclays hatches plan to buy Egg's UK credit cards - The Independent
Things we're reading today include … Cell Me the Money: Unlocking the Value in the Mobile Payment Ecosystem - Payments News HSBC profits near triple to $19bn - The Telegraph CoCos May Be Endorsed in Capital Rules for Systemic Banks - Business Week Financial complaints rise by 15% - BBC New bank rules hit HSBC's outlook - Financial Times ETFs face clampdown if risks are…
Things we're reading today include … 'Old' is the new thing in banking for the UK boss of Sweden's Handelsbanken - The Telegraph LSE trading resumes after glitch - BBC Payday loan chief denounces hidden fees of 'oligopoly' banks - The Independent Lloyds will not pay corporation tax until profits hit £15bn - The Telegraph Stephen Hester's RBS repair job is showing results - The…
