Things we're reading today include: CVC buys Barclays' iShares for £3bn (Independent) Vodafone cools longstanding links with UBS and Goldman (Times) MPs look at possibility of breaking up the banks (Times) Japan to pump £105bn into ailing economy (Independent) Micro-Blogging Meets Micro-Payments, Courtesy Of Tipjoy’s API (Techcrunch) The World's Biggest Companies (Forbes) You Don’t Own…
Things we're reading today include … Company News: Barclays could still face anger at AGM (Financial Times) Barclays on verge of iShare sale to CVC (Telegraph)ING plans to raise 8bn euros selling businesses (Telegraph)Berlin bids for all HRE shares (Financial Times)Moody’s Downgrades Berkshire (New York Times) UK: Bank of England Governor Mervyn King weighs case for…
Things we're reading today include: UK 'will not recover until 2012' (BBC)9,000 jobs go at Royal Bank of Scotland on bleakest day of year (Times)Royal Bank of Scotland staff voice anger over bosses’ blunders (Times)Banks axe more jobs, but it's boom time for debt collectors (Guardian) All Irish banks have ratings cut (BBC) Ireland to…
Things we're reading today include: UK 'will not recover until 2012' (BBC)9,000 jobs go at Royal Bank of Scotland on bleakest day of year (Times)Royal Bank of Scotland staff voice anger over bosses’ blunders (Times)Banks axe more jobs, but it's boom time for debt collectors (Guardian) All Irish banks have ratings cut (BBC) Ireland to…
Things we're reading today include: UK 'will not recover until 2012' (BBC)9,000 jobs go at Royal Bank of Scotland on bleakest day of year (Times)Royal Bank of Scotland staff voice anger over bosses’ blunders (Times)Banks axe more jobs, but it's boom time for debt collectors (Guardian) All Irish banks have ratings cut (BBC) Ireland to…
Things we're reading today include … UK: UK unemployment will reach 3.2m, BCC warns (Telegraph) City bankers made to pay for financial crisis (bonuses down 62%) (Telegraph) Credit card rates highest for two years despite rate cuts (Telegraph) Alistair Darling faces £39bn hole in public finances (Guardian) Lesson of Lloyd’s teaches us how to solve…
Things we're reading today include: Leitch in line for top Lloyds job (Times) HBOS deal maker picks up pension of £342,000 (Scotsman) RBS lines up veteran audit chief (Telegraph) With £12bn, HSBC is laughing all the way (Times) HSBC’s success is also a triumph for the City (Times) HSBC rights issue 97% taken up (Financial…
Things we're reading today include mopping up the G20 news: G20 has little impact on global economics (Financial Times) G20: Fat cats brought down to Earth with a bump (Guardian) Bankers rage at G20 'witch hunt' against bonuses and buccaneers (Guardian) Overview: Risk-takers reap benefits of G20 sentiment (Financial Times) Some firm's news: Funds challenge…
Things we're reading today include mopping up the G20 news: G20 has little impact on global economics (Financial Times) G20: Fat cats brought down to Earth with a bump (Guardian) Bankers rage at G20 'witch hunt' against bonuses and buccaneers (Guardian) Overview: Risk-takers reap benefits of G20 sentiment (Financial Times) Some firm's news: Funds challenge…
Lots worth reading today, with most of it about the G20 Summit outcome: G20 Summit: the key agreements (Telegraph) Q&A: the G20 Summit (Guardian) G20 leaders hail crisis fightback (Financial Times) G20 summit: Gordon Brown unveils $1.1 trillion global recession fight-back (Telegraph) Today's G20 deal will solve financial crisis, claims Gordon Brown (Guardian) G20 Shapes…
