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BarCap told to disclose Lehman information
FT.com / Companies / Banks – BarCap told to disclose Lehman information. If you will brag about making £2 billion of profit by buying assets
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180 more jobs go in Jersey finance
From the Jersey Evening Post: UP to 180 jobs in Jersey are to go at the Lloyds banking group — just under a third of
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A 10% extra tax on banks, and stop tax relief on banker’s pay
Goldman Sachs is supposedly having a great year: Staff at Goldman Sachs staff can look forward to the biggest bonus payouts in the firm’s 140-year
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Consider the paradox
The FT has noted: Just 8 per cent of the $1,000bn (£605bn) in .. infrastructure investment budgeted worldwide will be ready to start work by
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Still in the bankers thrall
Darling wastes a chance for real change | Noreena Hertz | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk . Finally out from behind the shadows of the
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Private equity – dedicated to offshore
The FT notes: At a time when governments are launching a fierce assault on tax havens, the [part of] Fortis now owned by the Dutch
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Size does not matter (well, not that much….)
The FT notes: Switzerland upped the ante in a global regulatory assault on the banking industry on Thursday as its central bank warned that Zurich
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The FSA – pointing the way to usury
As the Guardian notes: An information site run by the personal finance industry regulator, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), is promoting a sub-prime loan comparison
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