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Lord Carter’s Digital Britain paper is getting slagged off even before it’s been published – the Times attacks both the paper and Gordon…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | June 16, 2009 11:03AM | No Comments »
There’s been a long line of people warning against it, including Greg Dyke and Michael Lyons, but the BBC is going to have…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | June 15, 2009 12:57PM | 1 Comment »
The constant upswing in the banking sector means everyone’s paying back their government money at such a rate that it’s starting to make last autumn…
Posted by Becky North in Hot Money | June 15, 2009 11:13AM | No Comments »
More light has been shed on that whole sorry Merrill-Bank of America saga, where the US Treasury forced BoA to take over the…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | June 11, 2009 1:00PM | No Comments »
While regulation in the banking sector has been big news this week, the other area that’s going to have its fun cut back…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | June 11, 2009 11:55AM | No Comments »
Credit Suisse, those Swiss finance guys who do just about everything finance-y, have had a ton of bad form this week – one of their…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | June 10, 2009 1:23PM | No Comments »
Just yesterday we were fretting about the pace of payback to the Treasury allowing the banks to run ahead of planned regulatory reform, and as…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | June 10, 2009 11:06AM | No Comments »
For about a week last autumn, when the banks started getting bailed out, it looked like full-on nationalisation might actually happen. In the U.S., you…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | June 9, 2009 12:42PM | 3 Comments »
Executive compensation is one of the hottest topics post-crisis, because not only does it have the power to incentivise executives to actually keep their company…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | June 9, 2009 11:26AM | 1 Comment »
Barclays are continuing their run of asset-shedding, with the confirmation this morning that they’re in advanced talks with BlackRock to sell their asset-management…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | June 8, 2009 12:32PM | No Comments »
Andy Hornby, the boyish ex-chief exec of HBOS who has the air of a man who never quite got over a toilet-based bullying incident in…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | June 8, 2009 10:41AM | 1 Comment »
We’ve seen recently how regulation, the thoroughly unsexy schoolmarm rapping the knuckles of city boys for their transgressions, has come back with a vengeance after…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | June 4, 2009 11:39AM | No Comments »
