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Elton Cane

Trust me, I'm an expert ...

It' s a line we seem to fall for far too easily, and this is something that scientists say has contributed to the current financial crisis. Studies suggest that the normal mechanisms people use to eva...

24 Mar 2009
Trends in Financial Services
Paul Penrose

Sibos sobers up

Sibos will never be the same again. In killing off its Thursday night party, Swift has moved with the prevailing mood music. Lavish, big budget entertainment is off the agenda as the financial service...

20 Mar 2009
Finextra@Sibos
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And Now the Rest of the Story

Given the amount of negative press swirling around the financial services industry--and in particular around the banking segment of the industry, it would be great if some of the banks who are not at ...

20 Mar 2009
Women in Technology
Paul Penrose

Does Jon Stewart use inside information?

Having mopped the floor with Jim Cramer and CNBC, the Daily Show's Jon Stewart has turned his attention to the practice of short-selling in this typically barbed report from regular correspondent Sa...

18 Mar 2009
Video extravaganza
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Tightening the belt? Apply here.

A slew of job cuts across financial services have been announced over the course of the last few weeks and there is no doubt that these are the tip of the iceberg. Some reports have even gone as far ...

16 Mar 2009
Paul Penrose

Bernie Madoff is the Cookie Monster

Want to know how Bernie Madoff swindled his billions, but only got a minute to spare? Ernie from Sesame Street explains all here. Not sure that I fully approve of Ernie's rather Tarantinoesque retrib...

16 Mar 2009
Video extravaganza
Paul Penrose

SFO to lift clear-up rates; invents new case in Ambridge

"Serious Fraud Office questioning Archers' Matt Crawford over possible fraud in Ambridge" That's the headline from a real piece of PR sent out by the real Serious Fraud Office about a probe ...

06 Mar 2009
Whatever...
John Cant

Regulation: learn how to walk again, before you try to run

There have been calls this month from the European Union for the creation of a pan-European regulatory body to help solve the current financial crisis and prevent future issues. This is a deceptively ...

06 Mar 2009
Trends in Financial Services
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Snouts in the trough

We’ve heard much about how bankers have been rewarded too much for doing too little. And we’ve mainly heard it from politicians. So, now I’m going to give the bankers a break. As long as I can remembe...

04 Mar 2009
Trends in Financial Services
Paul Penrose

Flying high: Ken Lewis stonewalls in style

Bank bosses just don't get it. BofA president Ken Lewis is once again in hot water after flying to a hearing in New York with Attorney General Andrew Cuomo on a luxury private jet. Lewis was there to ...

27 Feb 2009
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Paul Penrose

Protestors hang banking effigy at 'family event'

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...

27 Feb 2009
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Charity Thames Walk

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...

26 Feb 2009
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