Jersey says Northern Rock's OK - what a relief!
Thursday, November 29th, 2007The Jersey Evening Post today has a story that says: JERSEY’S involvement in a complex deal involving stricken UK bank Northern Rock has been entirely
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Imitation is a sincere form of flattery
Thursday, November 29th, 2007I guess imitation is a pretty sincere form of flattery. The Guardian had a front page story yesterday on Northern Rock, Granite, Jersey and the
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Northern Rock: the significance of Granite to the Bank of England
Sunday, November 25th, 2007The Guardian published two stories on Friday concerning the relationship between Northern Rock and its shadow entity, Granite. I’ll be candid, I know the stories
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Northern Rock: the core of the issue
Monday, November 12th, 2007In response to my suggestion that I would block comments on this site unless coherent argument was offered, both Tim Knight and Roger Morley have
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Northern Rock - the Granite saga continues in the Commons
Sunday, October 14th, 2007The Evening Standard in London carried this report last week on the questioning of senior executives of the Financial Services Authority by the House of
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Northern Rock - why it abused the charity
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007Several people have questioned why I think Northern Rock abused Down’s Syndrome North East by naming that charity as the beneficiary of the charitable trust
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Northern Rock - rotten abuse of charity
Monday, October 8th, 2007The FT blog has a post on it that reproduces a statement from Down’s Syndrome North East, which says: In connection with the current problems
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PWC - compromised on Northern Rock
Sunday, September 30th, 2007The Observer has noted today that: Northern Rock’s accountant PricewaterhouseCoopers is facing accusations of a damaging conflict of interest after it emerged that it earned
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The Observer on Special Purpose Vehicles
Sunday, September 30th, 2007I asked recently why no one was talking about the risks to ordinary people in the UK from the use of ‘special purpose vehicles’ (SPVs)
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