FT.com / Companies / Banks – Barclays plans global wealth manager role. The FT notes: Barclays plans to add several hundred bankers to its staff
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FT Alphaville » Hedge funds in Greek bonanza. Yet more reason why a Tobin Tax is needed.

Switzerland has lost out on the lucrative tax evasion market by giving up banking secrecy too quickly, a writer says. – swissinfo. The warped logic
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Tax offences = money laundering. As headlines go the above, from the Straits Times in Singapore is pretty good. And spot on. As it reports:
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I’ve long predicted that Jersey would go bust sometime this decade as a result of a massive black hole in its budget. The Crown Dependency
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