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Read More »Things we're reading today include: UK Stalemate between Lloyds and the Government is turning into a farce (Telegraph) London trader at centre of Merrill investigation into 'irregularities' (Times) L&G calls for Barclays chairman Michael Agius to go (Telegraph) Europe Analysis: Swiss bracing for change in …
Read More »Here’s another blog with multimedia inserts, this time discussing John Chaplin who presented at the Club this week about trends in debit and credit cards. Now John should know what he’s talking about as he is European payments adviser for First Data, liaising closely with …
Read More »Here’s another blog with multimedia inserts, this time discussing John Chaplin who presented at the Club this week about trends in debit and credit cards. Now John should know what he’s talking about as he is European payments adviser for First Data, liaising closely with …
Read More »Here’s another blog with multimedia inserts, this time discussing John Chaplin who presented at the Club this week about trends in debit and credit cards. Now John should know what he’s talking about as he is European payments adviser for First Data, liaising closely with …
Read More »Another attempt to explain the financial crisis. The last ones were with birds and cows. This time it's beer-bellied drunks! John owns a bar and, in order to increase sales, decides to allow the most loyal customers – who are mainly unemployed drunks – to …
Read More »Things we're reading today include … UK Bank of England cuts rates to 0.5% and starts quantitative easing (Guardian) Bank to 'print' £75bn of new money as it cuts rate (The Times) FSA's Lord Turner to call for new banking oversight role (Telegraph) Lloyds in …
Read More »Things we're reading today include … UK Bank of England cuts rates to 0.5% and starts quantitative easing (Guardian) Bank to 'print' £75bn of new money as it cuts rate (The Times) FSA's Lord Turner to call for new banking oversight role (Telegraph) Lloyds in …
Read More »Things we're reading today include … UK Bank of England cuts rates to 0.5% and starts quantitative easing (Guardian) Bank to 'print' £75bn of new money as it cuts rate (The Times) FSA's Lord Turner to call for new banking oversight role (Telegraph) Lloyds in …
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Last Thursday was one of those days where you wake up knowing it’s going to be a good one and you go to bed realising that it was … for some that is, but not for everyone. In my case, I was up with the …
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I've kept away from commenting too much about Sir Fred Goodwin's pension furore that has been the major media story in the UK for the past week because: (a) it's old news;(b) it's just a distraction from the real news;(c) if it was my pension, …
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I've kept away from commenting too much about Sir Fred Goodwin's pension furore that has been the major media story in the UK for the past week because: (a) it's old news;(b) it's just a distraction from the real news;(c) if it was my pension, …
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I've kept away from commenting too much about Sir Fred Goodwin's pension furore that has been the major media story in the UK for the past week because: (a) it's old news;(b) it's just a distraction from the real news;(c) if it was my pension, …
Read More »Things we're reading today include: George Osborne tells FSA City needs tougher laws to curb wrongdoing (The Times) Darling Says U.K. Endorses European Union Financial Regulator (Bloomberg) Almunia has Eurozone bailout plan (Euractiv) It's the Europhiles versus reality, and reality is going to win (Telegraph) …
Read More »For those who have no idea why Facebook is worthy, here is a video from Some Grey Bloke (warning: if you go to this website it has adult material) that explains it all: It was worth the three minutes to enjoy the clarification of social …
Read More »For those who have no idea why Facebook is worthy, here is a video from Some Grey Bloke (warning: if you go to this website it has adult material) that explains it all: It was worth the three minutes to enjoy the clarification of social …
Read More »I was pleased to be invited to submit some articles to the Parliamentary Brief over the past few months. At the very least I hope that it gives us some conduit into the corridors of Whitehall. The trouble is that it's hard to write something. …
Read More »Northern Rock released their annual report this morning, a year after their ‘temporary’ nationalisation on 22nd February 2008. The report provides some fascinating reading, and here are the headline numbers: A loss of £1.4 billion, of which £900m is for loan losses and £300m for …
Read More »Things we're reading today include: HSBC joins ranks of the mortals (Guardian) City boss 'referred to female staff as prostitutes', tribunal hears (Telegraph) Interview: Sir John Gieve discusses his time at the Bank (Times) BofA chief calls Merrill aid ‘mistake’ (Financial Times) Robert Peston on …
Read More »Things we're reading today include: HSBC joins ranks of the mortals (Guardian) City boss 'referred to female staff as prostitutes', tribunal hears (Telegraph) Interview: Sir John Gieve discusses his time at the Bank (Times) BofA chief calls Merrill aid ‘mistake’ (Financial Times) Robert Peston on …
Read More »We had a great meeting of the Financial Services Club in Ireland last week, looking at the way in which payments infrastructures need to change to cope with SEPA mandates and requirements. Pat McLoughlin, CEO of the Irish Payment Services Organisation Limited (IPSO) and Gilbert …
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I know that some of you will think I've had a snifter too many, but I've been waiting to find a way to blog about I can has cheezburger for ages … Are you serious? You missed LOL Cats? Where have you been???? LOL Cats …
Read More »Today's news headlines are dominated by HSBC's results, which show profits down 62% and a rights issue of $17 billion (£12.5 billion) at a discount on the share price of almost half (shares closed at £4.91 on Friday and the rights issue is 5 shares …
Read More »Today's news headlines are dominated by HSBC's results, which show profits down 62% and a rights issue of $17 billion (£12.5 billion) at a discount on the share price of almost half (shares closed at £4.91 on Friday and the rights issue is 5 shares …
Read More »Today's news headlines are dominated by HSBC's results, which show profits down 62% and a rights issue of $17 billion (£12.5 billion) at a discount on the share price of almost half (shares closed at £4.91 on Friday and the rights issue is 5 shares …
Read More »Microsoft have just released a collage of technologies they believe will be in play in 2019: <p><p>&amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=&amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-GB&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:a517b260-bb6b-48b9-87ac-8e2743a28ec5&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;showPlaylist=true&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;from=shared&amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; target=&amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;_new&amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; title=&amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;Future Vision Montage&amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Video: Future Vision Montage&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt;</p></p> It includes a montage of new concepts, as well as some of the clips used in their envisioning series. If …
Read More »Things we're reading on 1st March 2009: Banks flock to Mandelson's £10bn fund (The Telegraph) State-funded banks face tax-avoidance inquiry (The TImes) HSBC takes £17bn hit on bad loans (The Times) HSBC to raise £12bn in rights issue (The Telegraph) HBOS ex-chief executive eyes US …
Read More »Things we're reading on 1st March 2009: Banks flock to Mandelson's £10bn fund (The Telegraph) State-funded banks face tax-avoidance inquiry (The TImes) HSBC takes £17bn hit on bad loans (The Times) HSBC to raise £12bn in rights issue (The Telegraph) HBOS ex-chief executive eyes US …
Read More »Things we're reading on 1st March 2009: Banks flock to Mandelson's £10bn fund (The Telegraph) State-funded banks face tax-avoidance inquiry (The TImes) HSBC takes £17bn hit on bad loans (The Times) HSBC to raise £12bn in rights issue (The Telegraph) HBOS ex-chief executive eyes US …
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