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Shamish about the Amish

We talk about community and a return to traditional values brought on by the credit crisis and the community that springs to mind as being one of the most traditional is the Amish community. The Amish community is based mainly in Pennsylvania and Indiana in the States, and continue a strict religious order that stems…

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Insightful charts of the crisis

There has been lots of conversation about the disaster of financial markets over the last year, but not many placed to go to find the whole thing mapped out clearly.  The BBC has quite a good site that monitors the key events and the Credit Writedown is doing a good job of monitoring the bank…

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Gossip about houses and mortgages

Interesting dinner last night with a bunch of guys involved in the housing markets. These are some of the UK's largest property lenders and managers. By way of example, one gentleman was telling me about his wealthy client with £100 million property portfolio … the client was trying to restructure their financing and he accused…

Deutsche Bank accused of ‘spying’

I know that some news goes under the radar but when it's major news – like the ATM malware issues mentioned earlier this week – then it is worth highlighting, and here's another one that creeped out a month ago and only just caught my eye.  This is that Deutsche Bank has been accused of…

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The Top 10 Banks of 2009

And yet another Top 10 list is released today.  This time it's the Financial Times analysis of the leading investment banks of the world (doubleclick image to see the list properly): This is hot on the heels of the Banker's release of the leading banks of the world, with the most profitable banks being: ICBC…

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The Top 10 Banks of 2009

And yet another Top 10 list is released today.  This time it's the Financial Times analysis of the leading investment banks of the world (doubleclick image to see the list properly): This is hot on the heels of the Banker's release of the leading banks of the world, with the most profitable banks being: ICBC…

FT - investment bank leaders

Zurich’s reports: worth a read

Rather than placing this in things worth reading, I stumbled upon Zurich Financial Services reports section today.  I jumped over there after seeing the group's latest Risk Insight report, which states that the number of companies blaming supply chain problems for lower profits has more than doubled in the last five years, while the number…

Zurich’s reports: worth a read

Rather than placing this in things worth reading, I stumbled upon Zurich Financial Services reports section today.  I jumped over there after seeing the group's latest Risk Insight report, which states that the number of companies blaming supply chain problems for lower profits has more than doubled in the last five years, while the number…

Zurich’s reports: worth a read

Rather than placing this in things worth reading, I stumbled upon Zurich Financial Services reports section today.  I jumped over there after seeing the group's latest Risk Insight report, which states that the number of companies blaming supply chain problems for lower profits has more than doubled in the last five years, while the number…

Fred Goodwin found in France

Nothing like sensationalist news headlines, and nothing like our very own News of the World who went on the hunt for Fred Goodwin … and found him! Yep, hiding in the Cote d'Azur hills near Cannes in the South of France. In typical Sunday splash style, they rename Fred the Shred, Fred the Fled, and…

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