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This is getting serious. Following on from the politically-sanctioned banking witch trials in Parliament, demonstrators have hanged an effigy of a banker from Marble Arch in protest at the growing fin...
The recent discussion about the virtues of a re-introduction of Glass-Steagall may have taken a wrong turn. Glass-Steagall was introduced to physically separate lending from securities underwriting an...
OK so this may not be entirely relevant to our usual content covered here on Finextra but I wanted to use my blog profile as a platform to share with the world (well based on our recent user figures w...
I recently started to listen to the audio version of two of my favourite magazines - The Economist and New Scientist, and have been impressed by the convenience and quality. I'm not a fan of the word ...
The problem of identity theft continues to grow. The victims face an incredible amount of resistance when restoring their good name. Most spend an overwhelming amount of time fighting credit reportin...
Picture the scene. “Hey, Tone. Many of of us don’t like the mess you left the country in, so you’re losing your PM’s pension.” “Maggie. Loads of your humble citizens think you wrecked the country ...
Is short selling really bad for my investments' health? Following on from my previous blog... I have checked with my fund manager (a rather large Scottish institution), and they confirmed to me that ...
A new challenger to Western Union recently emerged in the money transfer area. The WooGroup, based in Paris, was recently listed on the Paris stock exchange (Nyse Euronext, ticker MLWOO). After a some...
British Telecom have been pushing people for years now to sign up for Direct Debit, charging extra if you don't sign up. However, if they wanted to keep their costs down then they could start closer t...
Bank of America twitterer David Knapp at BofA_help has outed an impersonator operating under the monicker bofabanker. The anonymous BofA imposter set up his Twitter account yesterday and claimed to ...
CME Group has just put out a rather strange statement letting us know that it doesn't endorse the views expressed by journalists reporting from its trading floor. Presumably the move comes after CNBC...
What's the diference between Bank of America and Wells Fargo? Citibank and JPMorgan Chase? Royal Bank of Scotland and HSBC? Hbos and Barclays? From a consumer perspective, very little. They all offer ...