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The idea of a “living will” being part of a more stringently regulated banking sector is something that’s been gathering pace recently, and the idea…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | September 15, 2009 12:37PM | 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 »
It looked for a while there like the banking world might be forced into the totally boring world of responsibility and safety, thanks to…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | July 6, 2009 12:33PM | 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 »
One of the shortest chapters in Barclays’ history has closed, with the departure of one of its bacon-saving Arab investors yesterday, who collected…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Green Rush | June 2, 2009 11:26AM | 1 Comment »
John Thain will be giggling into his Jobseekers Allowance this morning with the news that Ken Lewis, the Bank of America chief that oversaw the…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 30, 2009 11:03AM | No Comments »
Barclays, who got their shareholders rather annoyed by ignoring them in favour of some very wealthy sheiks when they needed some liquidity, Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 23, 2009 4:08PM | No Comments »
News from efinancialnews this morning that Barclays are continuing to whittle themselves down to their core businesses – they’re planning to spin off…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 6, 2009 12:22PM | No Comments »
After passing the government stress test that asserted that they could weather the ongoing financial mistral, Barclays have decided to man up and
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | March 31, 2009 2:12PM | No Comments »
Theodor Reppe, who owns the server owns the German domain name of document-leak site Wikileaks, has had his home raided by German police,…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | March 26, 2009 3:20PM | 6 Comments »
Goldman Sachs, whose smugness at having avoided the subprime crisis was snuffed out by big losses and having to get some bailout money, are set…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | March 25, 2009 12:01PM | 1 Comment »
Barclays are once again putting up a good fight against the tentacles of part-nationalisation. Previously we saw how they used the diplomatic dream team of…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | March 17, 2009 12:11PM | No Comments »
