I’m told one member of the audience at yesterday’s meeting where Adair Turner spoke about the need to transform the accounting of banks asked: whether
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Earlier this week I had an article on Forbes about the absurdity of bad debt less provisioning for banks under the rules of International Financial
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From the Guardian: An era of high rolling at the Wall Street casino will shortly come to an end if Barack Obama gets his way.
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Goldman Sachs slashes bonuses for top staff as it posts £8.3billion profits | Mail Online. Goldman Sachs is to slash the size of the bonuses
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Global Financial Integrity (GFI) launched its "G20 Transparency" campaign today, an international grassroots sign-on drive to collect 100,000 signatures on a petition calling for greater
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There’s a lovely page on the States of Jersey Treasury Department website that says with regard to its new law allowing the establishment of foundations:
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FT.com / Companies / Banks – Obama to put limits on bank trading. Obama’s getting it, at last: President Barack Obama is set to toughen
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FT.com / Financials – UK chief executives’ pay hit by cost cuts. The FT has reported: The base salaries of chief executives of the UK’s
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