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On the boards
This is, by general consensus, about the worst time to be a broker since 1929 – and possibly since 1914 and the start of the First World War. Both retail brokerage and prime brokerage firms have bee... -
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Defending the indefensible
For a brief moment in October it seemed as if the world’s financial systems were about to implode. What was once unthinkable, and if we are to believe many financial models, unimaginable, was actual... -
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Directors beware
Investors are looking for scalps and insurers have warned that companies worldwide – not just in the US, where shareholder actions are more common – face potentially ruinous litigation claims for ... -
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2008 Banking Awards
Best Investment Services Provider,SwitzerlandBank Sarasin Best Online Investment ProviderEuropeIW Bank SpA Best Brokerage Services Provider,Middle EastUnited Securities LLC Best Trade Finance Bank,Tur... -
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acronyms you really ought to know
CRAA credit rating agency of the kind that handed out triple-A ratings like confetti and, as the US Fed and scores of other regulators have belatedly recognised, got us into trouble. EcofinOne of thos... -
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Europe’s financial vulnerability
The most notable innovations of the past two decades have been financial. Like technological innovation, financial innovation is concerned with the perpetual search for greater efficiency – in this ... -
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Plugging the leaks
With pain and misgiving, the United States Congress bailed out Wall Street in order to prevent a meltdown of America’s financial system. But the $700 billion to be used may flow into a leaky bucket,... -
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Who killed Wall Street?
You don’t have to break a sweat to be a finance skeptic these days. So let’s remind ourselves how compelling the logic of the financial innovation that led us to our current predicament seemed not...
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