Vince Cable on the future of financial services

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

I attended a clubbable FS event last night at the Lloyds of London building where the shadow chancellor for the Liberal Democrats, Dr Vincent Cable, one of the few figures to have actually enhanced his reputation following the financial meltdown of last year, gave a presentation entitled The New World ...

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Boys from the Blackstuff: City Edition?

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Just a quick blog about a great TV show I saw last night called Freefall on the BBC. The plot was about three central characters – a top City executive selling CDOs and other exotic investments, perhaps their first ever mention on a mainstream drama programme; a mortgage broker selling ...

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