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Lehman Bros employees have staged a protest by blockading the company retreat and refuse to give it up until their bank is bailed out too and they get their jobs back. See Photo:
It's difficult to see much effect in the marketplace at the moment, at least not in the US. Claims are rife that banks are hoarding cash, even the cash that Treasury is handing out. There'll be some s...
Bryan Inch, the general manager of RaboPlus, the Australian Internet arm of Dutch co-operative Rabobank, has been running an executive blog for over a year. In September, he announced through the blo...
UK women may have triumphed in the recent Olympic Games but it looks like the women of the UK aren’t so keen on cycling. Research shows that over half of women will not cycle to work because they’re w...
With what appears to be impeccable timing, Hollywood is awash with reports of the imminent return of Gordon Gekko, the ultimate master of the universe, in a reprise of the 1987 blockbuster Wall Street...
After my recent blog and article commenting on the excellent progress at EMXCo in the drive to STP in the unitised funds space, the latest news that Euroclear's FundSettle has built an automated link...
Actually, CRAs should be made to contact - independently - the subject whenever there is a change to their status (for example, a credit check is requested by a lender) and receive independent confirm...
Over the last couple of days, I've had occasion to phone a couple of companies that use IVRs, and it has reminded me just how awful the experience is. In both cases, I had to go through 4 or 5 levels ...
Reading the post from Brandon McGee, I was amazed that a bank is giving away quite good level new mobile phones to use their mobile banking. Sure, you have to open an account and sign for 2 years. htt...
It isn't hard to see why customers prefer to do their banking and bill-paying using a PC, rather than a mobile. Well it is hard to see, and that's the problem. Those tiny little mobile screens aren't ...
Hardly a day goes by before a new story hits the headlines about another fraud. No one it seems is immune from the French president to the man in the street, small businesses to large corporations, th...
A recent article in the New York Times has provoked some heated discussion as to the level of culpability banks and credit reference agencies share for the credit crash after it was revealed that they...