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Paypal is stepping its game up this week by announcing its plans to go into the third-party application market. They’re not just developing some keeping-up-with-the-Joneses…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | November 3, 2009 12:02PM | No Comments »
The hedge fund industry in a recession is like a week too long in Vegas, or dating someone with a personality disorder – a rollercoaster…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | October 14, 2009 11:47AM | No Comments »
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 »
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 | 1 Comment »
If the financial crisis teaches us anything, it’s to avoid highly leveraged buyouts that attempt to make your company artificially bigger than its rivals. Classic…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | May 21, 2009 11:59AM | No Comments »
For a departing chairman, like Victor Blank who left Lloyds at the weekend, there can be no more depressing sign than your former company’s share…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | May 19, 2009 11:52AM | 1 Comment »
The stock market has been rallying, the sun’s out, that new Star Trek movie looks pretty good – maybe life’s not so bad after all!…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | May 12, 2009 1:00PM | No Comments »
After the snow day that saw half of London stay at home instead of fight the credit crunch, London’s media has had to come up…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | February 3, 2009 11:20AM | 3 Comments »
Hope is soaring amongst the formerly rich investors who were stung by Madoff, after the National Bank of Kuwait fully reimbursed 20 or…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | January 30, 2009 2:50PM | 1 Comment »
John Thain, the former CEO of Merrill Lynch who looks like Clark Kent with a missing chromosome, said sorry yesterday for redecorating his office with…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | January 27, 2009 10:49AM | 4 Comments »
The FT’s man on the ground in Iceland Robert Jackson admitted in the paper’s weekend magazine he’s lost big in the meltdown. “Recent events… savaged…
Posted by Becky North in Hot Money | November 17, 2008 3:02AM | 1 Comment »
Anyone notice the Bonhams ad in the Telegraph today? Me thinks maybe they put their chips on there having been a total meltdown…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | October 14, 2008 4:24PM | 1 Comment »
