It’s two years since Lehman collapsed. Two years since the world’s economies looked over the edge of the crisis that banking created, and were pulled
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Goldman Sachs are to be fined £20m by the  UK’s Financial Services Authority  for their failure to disclose to the FSA that they were being
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The EU’s committee of finance ministers is called ECOFIN. It met today and considered a European financial transaction tax. The resulting press release is here.
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The FT notes that Citigroup is at the centre of a dispute among analysts and accounting experts over whether it should set aside funds to
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The FT notes that Barclays will today confirm Bob Diamond, head of its fast growing investment bank, as its next chief executive. I suppose we
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As the Observer notes today: European Union finance ministers will step up talks on raising extra money from banks this week amid signs that the
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Robert Peston is an annoying  television presenter , although living proof that competence can overcome a poor TV delivery. But on occasion he delivers the
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Alistair Darling says, according to the FT, of his banker’s bonus tax: “I think it will be a one-off thing because, frankly, the very people
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Tim Bush does, in effect ask the above question in his paper on the failings of the IFRS with regard to UK and Irish banking
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