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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

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

Things worth reading: 14th August 2009

Things we're reading today include … PayPal Makes a Bid for Student Banking (Wall Street Journal)Citigroup hires consultants to review management team support (Telegraph)Merrill ramps up recruitment programme (Financial Times)How Morgan Stanley landed a sweeter deal than Goldman Sachs from Uncle Sam (CNN) Ministers consider legislation to rein in bank bonuses (Financial Times)If banking reform…

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Things worth reading: 14th August 2009

Things we're reading today include … PayPal Makes a Bid for Student Banking (Wall Street Journal)Citigroup hires consultants to review management team support (Telegraph)Merrill ramps up recruitment programme (Financial Times)How Morgan Stanley landed a sweeter deal than Goldman Sachs from Uncle Sam (CNN) Ministers consider legislation to rein in bank bonuses (Financial Times)If banking reform…

Cisco

Things worth reading: 14th August 2009

Things we're reading today include … PayPal Makes a Bid for Student Banking (Wall Street Journal)Citigroup hires consultants to review management team support (Telegraph)Merrill ramps up recruitment programme (Financial Times)How Morgan Stanley landed a sweeter deal than Goldman Sachs from Uncle Sam (CNN) Ministers consider legislation to rein in bank bonuses (Financial Times)If banking reform…

Cisco

Things worth reading: 14th August 2009

Things we're reading today include … PayPal Makes a Bid for Student Banking (Wall Street Journal)Citigroup hires consultants to review management team support (Telegraph)Merrill ramps up recruitment programme (Financial Times)How Morgan Stanley landed a sweeter deal than Goldman Sachs from Uncle Sam (CNN) Ministers consider legislation to rein in bank bonuses (Financial Times)If banking reform…

Cisco

Things worth reading: 13th August 2009

Things we're reading today include … Today's must read INTERVIEW: New LSE Chief Wants Less Cost, Faster Speed, Size (Wall Street Journal) The new Chief Executive of the London Stock Exchange, Xavier Rolet, discusses the decision to dump TradElect and search for a new trading system: "In the past couple of months, we've reviewed technology…

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Things worth reading: 12th August 2009

Things we're reading today include … Today's must readBank Will Allow Customers to Deposit Checks by iPhone (New York Times)"About a million of USAA’s 7.2 million customers use their cellphones to access their accounts … more than 15 million people in the United States used mobile banking each month … Bank of America, which has…

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Things worth reading: 12th August 2009

Things we're reading today include … Today's must readBank Will Allow Customers to Deposit Checks by iPhone (New York Times)"About a million of USAA’s 7.2 million customers use their cellphones to access their accounts … more than 15 million people in the United States used mobile banking each month … Bank of America, which has…

Cisco

Things worth reading: 11th August 2009

Things we're reading today include … UK (UK's new) ID card hacked, cloned in 12 minutes (Computerworld)Bank trial offers faster payments to suppliers  (Telegraph)The banks are squeezing small businesses and nobody seems to care  (Telegraph)Mandelson takes charge and resolves to reject Darling 'defeatism' (Times) EuropeDocuments show how Kaupthing turned a shambles into a crisis  (Telegraph)Germany still in…

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