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Vikram’s Citi email that jumped the stock

You've probably seen it but, just in case, here's Vikram Pandit's internal memo that was leaked and resulted in a nice little jump in the stock price this week: From: Vikram Pandit Subject: Capital Strength and Earnings Power Sent: Mon Mar 09 21:12:44 2009 Dear Citi Colleagues, After a broad sell off in the markets…

Do we challenge our trust in money?

I’ll post lots of serious stuff this week about payments, as I’m chairing a conference about payments processing developments all week.  The conference will cover everything from mobile and contactless through SEPA and SWIFT, and many believe that payments is an area that has a positive vibe in banking as ‘Transaction Services’ – the payments…

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Do we challenge our trust in money?

I’ll post lots of serious stuff this week about payments, as I’m chairing a conference about payments processing developments all week.  The conference will cover everything from mobile and contactless through SEPA and SWIFT, and many believe that payments is an area that has a positive vibe in banking as ‘Transaction Services’ – the payments…

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Lost in translation

I’ll post lots of serious stuff this week about payments, as I’m chairing a conference about payments processing developments all week.  The conference will cover everything from mobile and contactless through SEPA and SWIFT, and many believe that payments is an area that has a positive vibe in banking as ‘Transaction Services’ – the payments…

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Jim Rogers on the woes of UK and USA

Misstrade pointed me to a fascinating half-hour interview with Jim Rogers, who was co-founder of the Quantum Fund with George Soros. This is the second part of the interview (click for first or third part): and he's saying that there were absurd practices in the City of London, which had more exposure than anywhere else…

Things worth reading: 5th March 2009

Things we're reading today include … UK Bank of England cuts rates to 0.5% and starts quantitative easing (Guardian)  Bank to 'print' £75bn of new money as it cuts rate (The Times) FSA's Lord Turner to call for new banking oversight role (Telegraph) Lloyds in talks over toxic asset insurance and the taxpayer's stake (Guardian)…

Things worth reading: 5th March 2009

Things we're reading today include … UK Bank of England cuts rates to 0.5% and starts quantitative easing (Guardian)  Bank to 'print' £75bn of new money as it cuts rate (The Times) FSA's Lord Turner to call for new banking oversight role (Telegraph) Lloyds in talks over toxic asset insurance and the taxpayer's stake (Guardian)…

Things worth reading: 5th March 2009

Things we're reading today include … UK Bank of England cuts rates to 0.5% and starts quantitative easing (Guardian)  Bank to 'print' £75bn of new money as it cuts rate (The Times) FSA's Lord Turner to call for new banking oversight role (Telegraph) Lloyds in talks over toxic asset insurance and the taxpayer's stake (Guardian)…

This poisoned chalice called Northern Rock

Northern Rock released their annual report this morning, a year after their ‘temporary’ nationalisation on 22nd February 2008. The report provides some fascinating reading, and here are the headline numbers: A loss of £1.4 billion, of which £900m is for loan losses and £300m for write-downs The bank reduced staff by 1,300 to 4,500 through…

Seals the Deal in Canary Wharf

I was in Canary Wharf yesterday in a variety of meetings and walked across from the Wharf to West Quay for a conference in the Marriott Hotel. As I wandered across the bridge, there was a seal in the waters of the Docklands behind HSBC. I thought my eyes deceived me and waited ages for…

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