Interesting conjecture over at the Financial Times that Dame Clara Furse, CEO of the London Stock Exchange, will be succeeded by an outsider. Two top names in the frame are Alasdair Haynes, Chief Executive of broker ITG; and Bob Wigley, the departing European Chairman of Merrill Lynch. This is based upon the trend to pick…
Of the 287 institutions receiving funds from America's Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), Citigroup heads the list at #1 with $45 billlion, ahead of AIG and General Motors (General Motors?), according to ProPublica: 1) Citigroup – $45 billion 2) AIG – $40 billion 3) JPMorgan Chase – $25 billion 4) Bank of America (incl. Merrill…
Of the 287 institutions receiving funds from America's Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), Citigroup heads the list at #1 with $45 billlion, ahead of AIG and General Motors (General Motors?), according to ProPublica: 1) Citigroup – $45 billion 2) AIG – $40 billion 3) JPMorgan Chase – $25 billion 4) Bank of America (incl. Merrill…
Of the 287 institutions receiving funds from America's Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), Citigroup heads the list at #1 with $45 billlion, ahead of AIG and General Motors (General Motors?), according to ProPublica: 1) Citigroup – $45 billion 2) AIG – $40 billion 3) JPMorgan Chase – $25 billion 4) Bank of America (incl. Merrill…
Reading "Britain in 2009" by the Economic & Social Research Council pointed me to an interesting article entitled "Who plans for rainy days?" The article is from three researchers at the Universities of York and Bristol – David Abbott, Deborah Quilgars and Anwen Jones – who studied perceptions and attitudes towards money and financial planning…
For those of you who are in a Firewall with massive constraints on what you can and cannot access on the internet, I apologise if you cannot play these two videos, but they are worth watching. First, there's an interesting commentary from Chris Patten, the Conservative Politician and Former Governor of Hong Kong who oversaw…
