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Things worth reading: 19th August 2009

Things we're reading today include … Today's must read Project Turquoise offered for sale to major exchange groups (Independent) "Turquoise, the pan-European share trading system set up to rival the London Stock Exchange, has effectively put itself up for sale, with Nasdaq OMX the favourite to buy it." Regulators urged Citi to replace CFO (Financial Times) US…

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Things worth reading: 18th August 2009

Things we're reading today include … Q Today's must read The vaults of Credito Emiliano SpA hold the pungent gold prized by gourmands around the world — 17,000 tons of parmesan cheese. The regional bank accepts parmesan as collateral for loans, helping it to keep financing cheesemakers in northern Italy amid the worst recession since…

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Things worth reading: 18th August 2009

Things we're reading today include … Q Today's must read The vaults of Credito Emiliano SpA hold the pungent gold prized by gourmands around the world — 17,000 tons of parmesan cheese. The regional bank accepts parmesan as collateral for loans, helping it to keep financing cheesemakers in northern Italy amid the worst recession since…

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Things worth reading: 18th August 2009

Things we're reading today include … Q Today's must read The vaults of Credito Emiliano SpA hold the pungent gold prized by gourmands around the world — 17,000 tons of parmesan cheese. The regional bank accepts parmesan as collateral for loans, helping it to keep financing cheesemakers in northern Italy amid the worst recession since…

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Things worth reading: 17th August 2009

Things we're reading today include … Today's must read Heroes to zeros … and back again (Guardian) "After fleeing to exile last year, Fred 'the Shred' Goodwin is coming home … "David Yelland, the former editor of the Sun who is now a leading City PR adviser, says the problem facing Goodwin is that he…

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Things worth reading: 17th August 2009

Things we're reading today include … Today's must read Heroes to zeros … and back again (Guardian) "After fleeing to exile last year, Fred 'the Shred' Goodwin is coming home … "David Yelland, the former editor of the Sun who is now a leading City PR adviser, says the problem facing Goodwin is that he…

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Things worth reading: 17th August 2009

Things we're reading today include … Today's must read Heroes to zeros … and back again (Guardian) "After fleeing to exile last year, Fred 'the Shred' Goodwin is coming home … "David Yelland, the former editor of the Sun who is now a leading City PR adviser, says the problem facing Goodwin is that he…

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The Finanser’s Week: 10th August 2009 – 16th August 2009

The biggest news stories of the week include: The Future of Banking? Deposit Checks via iPhone  (Mashable) Bank Will Allow Customers to Deposit Checks by iPhone (New York Times) Wallet of the future? Your mobile phone (CNN)Loans by text show we're not getting the message on debt (Telegraph) Fixing Finance, Breaking Views (a thirty minute video on…

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Things worth reading: 15th August 2009

Things we're reading today include … To be honest, there are more things worth watching than reading at the moment.  For example, this guide to high frequency trading from the folks at the MarketPlace: High-frequency trading from Marketplace on Vimeo. And an interesting chat between the Telegraph's Robert Miller and David Buik of BGC Partners,…

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Things worth reading: 15th August 2009

Things we're reading today include … To be honest, there are more things worth watching than reading at the moment.  For example, this guide to high frequency trading from the folks at the MarketPlace: High-frequency trading from Marketplace on Vimeo. And an interesting chat between the Telegraph's Robert Miller and David Buik of BGC Partners,…

TARP to Bonus ratio

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