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In an elaborate hoax, pranksters have launched a spoof version of The New York Times .  There was a print version and this fascinating website, which is a mockup of the newspaper for July 4th 2009. In the business section is this future advert for HSBC: This is not an official HSBC advert, I guess,…

Couple of interesting notes on Lloyds TSB's merger with HBOS, which gained legal clearance from the courts yesterday when the last protests by the Merger Action Group (MAG) were rejected. In City A.M., there was a one page interview with Sir Victor Blank, Chairman of Lloyds TSB and soon to be Chairman of the "Lloyds…

Couple of interesting notes on Lloyds TSB's merger with HBOS, which gained legal clearance from the courts yesterday when the last protests by the Merger Action Group (MAG) were rejected. In City A.M., there was a one page interview with Sir Victor Blank, Chairman of Lloyds TSB and soon to be Chairman of the "Lloyds…

Couple of interesting notes on Lloyds TSB's merger with HBOS, which gained legal clearance from the courts yesterday when the last protests by the Merger Action Group (MAG) were rejected. In City A.M., there was a one page interview with Sir Victor Blank, Chairman of Lloyds TSB and soon to be Chairman of the "Lloyds…

I was amused to read today that two banks are bigging up British Airways by supporting their good intentions. First, Citigroup has created a consortia to buy Gatwick Airport and persuaded former BA CEO, Bob Ayling, to join them. Second, Caja Madrid is a major shareholder in Iberia Airlines who BA want to merge with,…

I was amused to read today that two banks are bigging up British Airways by supporting their good intentions. First, Citigroup has created a consortia to buy Gatwick Airport and persuaded former BA CEO, Bob Ayling, to join them. Second, Caja Madrid is a major shareholder in Iberia Airlines who BA want to merge with,…

I was amused to read today that two banks are bigging up British Airways by supporting their good intentions. First, Citigroup has created a consortia to buy Gatwick Airport and persuaded former BA CEO, Bob Ayling, to join them. Second, Caja Madrid is a major shareholder in Iberia Airlines who BA want to merge with,…

For those of you who have found things confusing of late with the Blog, apologies.  We are revamping the Blog to reflect the Financial Services Club, but the homepage is still theFinanser (although we’ve been redirecting the last couple of days to try some new things out). Here’s the official information about the blog for…

For those of you who have found things confusing of late with the Blog, apologies.  We are revamping the Blog to reflect the Financial Services Club, but the homepage is still theFinanser (although we’ve been redirecting the last couple of days to try some new things out). Here’s the official information about the blog for…