Bonus tax could net a windfall of £2.5bn | Mail Online. The Treasury could reap a multi-billion pound bonus tax windfall as banks vow to
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FT.com / Comment / Analysis – Banking: City limits. Something close to sensible analysis from the FT, noting this: Headhunters say that as the recovery
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BBC News – Bankers ‘whacked’ in arcade game. An arcade game that allows people to vent their anger at bankers has proved so popular the
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Not time for Tobin -Times Online . I’m sure the Times did not want their rather pathetic attack ion the Tobin Tax to admit what
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FT.com / UK / Economy & Trade – Investors take fright at ‘fiscal fiction’ . The markets have done what they said they would, almost
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It’s interesting to note what is happening in banking as the financial crisis develops. The Bank of England has noted the following for the third
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Swissinfo report: The private banking arm of British bank HSBC in Geneva has filed a criminal complaint against a former employee who allegedly stole client
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FT.com / UK / Politics & policy – ‘What banker wants to be in the UK?’. The FT notes: Bankers were fuming. One investment banking
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FT.com / Europe – France to impose bank bonus supertax . Just announced: President Nicolas Sarkozy is to follow Britain and impose a one-off supertax
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