WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING July 18, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES Four banks targeted in Euribor probe Regulators are focusing on at least four of Europe’s biggest banks as they investigate the attempted manipulation of the region’s benchmark interest rate, suspecting the Barclays traders were the ringleaders of a circle that included Credit Agricole, HSBC, Deutsche Bank and Societe Generale. Evidence of links between [...]
The investment credential with valuable assets May 28, 2012 FOR THOSE with four years’ work experience in the investment profession, and with an undergraduate degree or equivalent, the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) credential is a serious opportunity. It’s a globally-recognised standard, a qualification meant to provide the practical skills, theoretical knowledge, and professional outlook to succeed in any relevant investment position. And it’s more [...]
Portugal axes public holidays May 9, 2012 PORTUGAL has cancelled four of its 14 public holidays in an attempt to improve its GDP figures amid its worst recession since the 1970s. The Eurozone nation has negotiated with the Vatican to suspend the Catholic holidays of All Saints Day and Corpus Christi for the next five years, according to local media, while two [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING March 19, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES SKY PULLED NEWS STORY ON F1 SHARES The chief executive of British Sky Broadcasting ordered a news story to be removed from the Sky News website after an executive producer complained that it had upset Formula 1 racing teams. Jeremy Darroch intervened after the article, which described a controversial agreement involving F1 chief [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING March 19, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES SKY PULLED NEWS STORY ON F1 SHARES The chief executive of British Sky Broadcasting ordered a news story to be removed from the Sky News website after an executive producer complained that it had upset Formula 1 racing teams. Jeremy Darroch intervened after the article, which described a controversial agreement involving F1 chief [...]
RAPID RESPONSES November 21, 2011 Xmas trimmings Your comment pieces by Detlev Schlichter and Andrea Leadsom yesterday reminded me of an entry in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle – “In this year [1124] before Christmas King Henry gave instructions that all the moneyers who were in England should be deprived of their members, namely the right hand of each and their testicles [...]
RAPID RESPONSES November 21, 2011 Xmas trimmings Your comment pieces by Detlev Schlichter and Andrea Leadsom yesterday reminded me of an entry in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle – “In this year [1124] before Christmas King Henry gave instructions that all the moneyers who were in England should be deprived of their members, namely the right hand of each and their testicles [...]
David Cameron is to call for moral capitalism: He needs to tackle moral hazard first November 7, 2011 IT IS widely expected that the Prime Minister is going to start calling for a more moral form of capitalism. I have a simple test of whether a politician is trying to debate, or avoid, tough policy questions – I ask myself whether anybody would disagree with the opposite of what the politician is calling [...]
The Vatican’s imperial economic plan is naive October 27, 2011 THE Vatican waded into the debate over the financial crisis this week, when the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace released a paper titled Toward Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems in the Context of a Global Public Authority. Despite some interesting analysis, as Robert Sirico of the Acton Institute has pointed out, on [...]
City hits out at Tobin tax October 24, 2011 ELEVEN of the City’s main financial groups have urged chancellor George Osborne to fight any proposed financial transactions tax, in a letter sent to the Treasury yesterday. The City collective – which includes the British Bankers’ Association and Investment Management Association – argued that a tax would hammer the economy and affect all of the [...]