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Across the capital markets industry organizations nervously struggled to determine exposure to those industry participants they considered in danger of becoming insolvent. For several stress filled da...
Chartered Management Institute - UK has released an engrossing report on the what the workplace/ organisation will look like in 10 years. You can download the report and 'accessories' from; http://w...
What is the most likely event to emanate from all the downslides in the financial market? Yes, the plethora of new laws and regulations. We saw Sarbanes-Oxeley in response to Enron and World Com. We ...
Unsettling events on the UK front at the moment with rumours flying everywhere. There are risks certainly, but there is no doubt a little of that 'I hope it doesn't happen to me" (so much that I'...
Call me sad, but I thought I might try out a little light web development work on the Mac. I bought it primarily for music and video and general fun stuff - but it's been such a stable and lovely thin...
In a new twist, it seems that pump and dump fraudsters are now exploiting social media networks to artificially inflate the price of stocks in addition to boiler room scams, 'blast faxes' and more tra...
Misys boss Mike Lawrie and largest shareholder ValueAct Capital seemed to be onto a winner when they announced a deal earlier this week to spin off the company’s ailing healthcare business and merge i...
My previous blog on Faster Payments posed the question whether some/all UK banks were seeing Faster Payments as an opportunity or sideshow? Still an open question I believe. So it was interesting to ...
I take it back, I take it back. No, not all modern students are illiterate. I blame the worldwide shortage of decent urls and a lack of respect for vowels. Still, from Monday this week students (in ju...
Over the last two years I have been researching the technology requirements to support primary market transaction and other activities in the Corporate Finance department. As an ex City professional I...
The lyrical e-mail that's currently doing the rounds of investment bank inboxes: Subject: CDO fantasy - to the tune of Bohemian Rhapsody Is this the real price? Is this just fantasy? Financial land...
How deep is the credit crisis? That must be the question on everyone's mind at the moment. Pundits have been trying to answer this question ever since the term credit crunch was first heard in the USA...