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Stonewall have just released their annual ranking of the best employers for gay people in Britain.  Interesting to see who’s who in our community.  For example, of the Top 100, we have quite a few nominations of good gay places in Retail and Investment Banking (position in Top 100 given first): 6   Lloyds TSB 92% …

News just in that Tony Blair’s first job since being dumped (ed: leaving office) is with JPMorgan as an advisor.  Wonder when JPM will invade (ed: open a branch in) Iraq then? Oh, they already have.

News just in that Tony Blair’s first job since being dumped (ed: leaving office) is with JPMorgan as an advisor.  Wonder when JPM will invade (ed: open a branch in) Iraq then? Oh, they already have.

I thought I should balance the books after picking on Citi, SocGen and HSBC yesterday by performing a quick look at the IT industry using Yahoo’s message boards, another favourite.    I love the message boards of Yahoo for seeing what investors really think about firms through trader’s messages and employee’s gripes.  The only thing…

I thought I should balance the books after picking on Citi, SocGen and HSBC yesterday by performing a quick look at the IT industry using Yahoo’s message boards, another favourite.    I love the message boards of Yahoo for seeing what investors really think about firms through trader’s messages and employee’s gripes.  The only thing…

Many of us start the new year looking for a new job, so I thought I’d dive into the wonderful website The Vault and see who’s hot and who’s not. Now I don’t know if you’ve ever explored The Vault, but it’s a good place to get the low-down on prospective employers.  The reason it…

Many of us start the new year looking for a new job, so I thought I’d dive into the wonderful website The Vault and see who’s hot and who’s not. Now I don’t know if you’ve ever explored The Vault, but it’s a good place to get the low-down on prospective employers.  The reason it…

Gary Silverman, the FT’s US news editor, wrote a column about his surprise to find he and his wife each had a $119.99 charge from TLG Hotline on their JP Morgan Chase credit cards. "We pay our cards automatically, and I don’t always examine the bill, but this time I did and noticed something strange….

Probably it’s just a coincidence that ING has two longish stories in the 4 January FT – one an innovative management framework from Bain that helps the bank keep its international operations in synch and another on how the bank is quietly extending its global reach, – an interview with Dick Harryvan, the board member…

Way back in mid-December Chris Skinner did a review of retail banking. Here’s an idea he may have overlooked — think about how customers actually use your bank, and for American banks, offer some support for people who work internationally. My personal example, if you will be so kind as to overlook special pleading…    …