It looks as if Barclays wants to head back to the days of the wild west in the City of London when the economy was
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The FT has said: The US is emerging as a serious alternative to Hong Kong as the possible headquarters for HSBC, as Europe’s biggest bank
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Bod Diamond famously asked that the era of remorse on the part of bankers come to an end rather too soon for the public to
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I wrote yesterday on what I will be calling a safe haven policy for the world’s capital. I think this new idea may be a
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Reuters is reporting this afternoon that: Swiss bank Credit Suisse plans to tap investors for a “substantial” capital raising to fund a restructuring of the bank
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This comes from a speech Mark Carney gave yesterday, talking about Central Bank Independence: In no small part due to my predecessors, particularly Lord King,
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Andrew Baker of Queen’s University Belfast posted a couple of comments over the weekend that I held back and, with his permission, post now as
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I mentioned yesterday how hard it would be for the Bank of England to get rid of cash, as Andy Haldane has suggested might be
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I have been accused of many things in my time, many of them untrue. Of late it has been suggested that I have posed a
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