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...The question is whether lawmakers will respond with the seriousness of purpose required to restore public governance to our information and communication realm....
...And as our own in-house ESG sceptic Robert Armstrong puts it, at the end of the day, it’s all about performance. “What the activists care about is the stock going up....
...Second, only regulated banks would be allowed to offer liquid liabilities, defined as debt liabilities with maturity of less than a year....
...… Flash Boys: Cracking the Money Code, by Michael Lewis, Allen Lane, RRP£20/ WW Norton, RRP$27.95 The consummate chronicler of finance’s hidden excesses turns his attention to the world of algorithmic...
...A few days after his hotline report, Ben-Artzi says he was summoned to a meeting with Robert Rice, the bank’s head of governance, litigation and regulation in the Americas....
...… Flash Boys: Cracking the Money Code, by Michael Lewis, Allen Lane, RRP£30/ WW Norton, RRP$27.95 Lewis touched a nerve with his book about the growth of high-frequency trading....
...That is why I am the first chancellor to give the Bank of England the responsibility and the power not only to monitor overall debt levels, but to take action to deal with asset bubbles if they threaten...
...Merrill Lynch has itself already been swept up in the tumult. Riddled with sub-prime-related problems of its own, it was sold to Bank of America in September....
...It argues, convincingly, that the problem with banks is that they operate with vastly insufficient levels of equity capital, relative to their assets....
...I first encountered the idea of wilful blindness when I read the transcript of the trial of Jeffrey Skilling and Kenneth Lay, CEO and chairman of Enron....
...The former president’s critics have leapt upon his justification for the use of water-boarding as evidence of his moral flaws....
...for their money....
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