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Things worth reading: 12th April 2009

Things we're reading today include: HSBC faces crisis over US credit cards (Guardian) HSBC’s London HQ back on the block in £2.7bn sell-off  (Times)Barclays opens door to BGI sale (Telegraph) Britain’s best-paid banker takes home £16m bonus (Times)Banks face £18bn pension gap (Guardian) FSA inquiry to investigate bank bosses (Telegraph) Analysts say markets likely to…

Things worth reading: 11th April 2009

Things we're reading today include: HBOS opens door to 100% mortgages (Financial Times) Banks aim to rebuild investor confidence (Financial Times)Goldmans could launch rights issue next week (Times)Goldman Sachs hires law firm to shut blogger's site  (Telegraph)Citi investors urged to oust directors (Financial Times) Other Bank's Financials Won't Follow Wells Fargo (Forbes) Regulators Close North…

Things worth reading: 10th April 2009

Things we're reading today include: CVC buys Barclays' iShares for £3bn (Independent) Vodafone cools longstanding links with UBS and Goldman (Times) MPs look at possibility of breaking up the banks (Times) Japan to pump £105bn into ailing economy (Independent) Micro-Blogging Meets Micro-Payments, Courtesy Of Tipjoy’s API (Techcrunch) The World's Biggest Companies (Forbes) You Don’t Own…

Things worth reading: 10th April 2009

Things we're reading today include: CVC buys Barclays' iShares for £3bn (Independent) Vodafone cools longstanding links with UBS and Goldman (Times) MPs look at possibility of breaking up the banks (Times) Japan to pump £105bn into ailing economy (Independent) Micro-Blogging Meets Micro-Payments, Courtesy Of Tipjoy’s API (Techcrunch) The World's Biggest Companies (Forbes) You Don’t Own…

Things worth reading: 10th April 2009

Things we're reading today include: CVC buys Barclays' iShares for £3bn (Independent) Vodafone cools longstanding links with UBS and Goldman (Times) MPs look at possibility of breaking up the banks (Times) Japan to pump £105bn into ailing economy (Independent) Micro-Blogging Meets Micro-Payments, Courtesy Of Tipjoy’s API (Techcrunch) The World's Biggest Companies (Forbes) You Don’t Own…

Things worth reading: 10th April 2009

Things we're reading today include: CVC buys Barclays' iShares for £3bn (Independent) Vodafone cools longstanding links with UBS and Goldman (Times) MPs look at possibility of breaking up the banks (Times) Japan to pump £105bn into ailing economy (Independent) Micro-Blogging Meets Micro-Payments, Courtesy Of Tipjoy’s API (Techcrunch) The World's Biggest Companies (Forbes) You Don’t Own…

Things worth reading: 9th April 2009

Things we're reading today include … Company News: Barclays could still face anger at AGM (Financial Times) Barclays on verge of iShare sale to CVC  (Telegraph)ING plans to raise 8bn euros selling businesses  (Telegraph)Berlin bids for all HRE shares  (Financial Times)Moody’s Downgrades Berkshire (New York Times) UK: Bank of England Governor Mervyn King weighs case for…

Things worth reading: 8th April 2009

Things we're reading today include: UK 'will not recover until 2012'  (BBC)9,000 jobs go at Royal Bank of Scotland on bleakest day of year (Times)Royal Bank of Scotland staff voice anger over bosses’ blunders (Times)Banks axe more jobs, but it's boom time for debt collectors (Guardian) All Irish banks have ratings cut (BBC) Ireland to…

Things worth reading: 8th April 2009

Things we're reading today include: UK 'will not recover until 2012'  (BBC)9,000 jobs go at Royal Bank of Scotland on bleakest day of year (Times)Royal Bank of Scotland staff voice anger over bosses’ blunders (Times)Banks axe more jobs, but it's boom time for debt collectors (Guardian) All Irish banks have ratings cut (BBC) Ireland to…

Things worth reading: 8th April 2009

Things we're reading today include: UK 'will not recover until 2012'  (BBC)9,000 jobs go at Royal Bank of Scotland on bleakest day of year (Times)Royal Bank of Scotland staff voice anger over bosses’ blunders (Times)Banks axe more jobs, but it's boom time for debt collectors (Guardian) All Irish banks have ratings cut (BBC) Ireland to…

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