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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Just found the Green Shoot Spotter (GSS) Index on the financial website Breaking Views.  Published each Friday it tracks the good, bad and downright ugly news of the global economy and places each headline item into a category of: “Still in real trouble” “Getting less bad” “Not just stabilising, but stable” “Slow growth” “Rapid recovery”…