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Sometimes you wonder if financial regulators can only spot wrong-doing when it gets chucked onto their desk in a folder marked “WRONG-DOING”. First there was…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | August 27, 2009 11:00AM | 1 Comment »
While executive pay has taken a rather misleading headline billing in the popular imagination as to why the recession happened, its nevertheless potentially damaging to…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | August 26, 2009 11:47AM | No Comments »
Ben Bernanke is getting four more years at the head of the Federal Reserve, the US equivalent of the Bank of England –…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | August 25, 2009 12:27PM | No Comments »
Bloomberg’s headline writers have a puckish humour that sits sweetly out of place with its dry, numbers-changing-on-screen image, and “Madoff Lover Stuck With…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | August 19, 2009 11:27AM | 6 Comments »
See, this is what we were talking about when we said the FSA had lost its balls. Just after the supposed financial services…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | August 17, 2009 11:21AM | 2 Comments »
The dispute between UBS and the American tax man, where the US wanted names of account holders it said were avoiding paying tax and UBS…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | August 13, 2009 11:31AM | 3 Comments »
Remuneration is one of the most viciously debated issues during the banking crisis – tabloids screaming for an end to those generically-labelled “banker bonuses”, the…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | August 12, 2009 2:30PM | No Comments »
Back last autumn when the financial crisis really kicked into gear, Iceland lost its national pride in the space of a couple of weeks, when…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | August 11, 2009 11:37AM | No Comments »
Lloyds’ shares are falling this morning after news of a possible rights issue broke yesterday in the Sunday Times, bringing to…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | August 10, 2009 11:33AM | 3 Comments »
After the slew of high-profile fraud cases that came to light as the recession deepened, things have settled down somewhat – fraud fans like us…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | August 6, 2009 12:03PM | 1 Comment »
UBS keeps on getting sucked down into the gaping maw of failure, with news today that its net losses for the last quarter
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | August 4, 2009 1:48PM | No Comments »
Last week we looked at Andrew Hall, the guy who made Citigroup a lot of money heading up the oil futures trading arm…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | August 3, 2009 1:31PM | 2 Comments »
