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Anti Money Laundering laws - nearly as useless as the attack on alcohol during the 1920s in the USA. And instigated from the same legislativ...

There was a time when people knew each other and box-ticking exercises were not necessary, O tempora o mores! Managing relationships with co...

Numerical rankings were already an idea from hell. Trying to achieve precision - am I number 6 or number 7 on the Goldman Sachs list? - is i...

Can it make any sense to appoint someone to lead a bank when the person has no specific experience in the industry? Recent moves by regulato...

Yesterday's announcement of the death of Emilio Botin, the man behind the immense growth of Banco Santander over the pa...

Announcing that the number of jobs in the investment banking unit will be cut by 25 per cent over the next three years is as bad a decision ...

A new study released by Stanford Business School highlights the cavalier attitude that many organisations take when planning for the eve...

Despite the rapidly rising number of compliance officers and the tide of regulatory legislation the age-old problem of supervising employee ...

Bank managements often argue that losses in far-away subsidiaries could not easily have been foreseen by top management. Such may be the cas...

I doubt it. When regulators don't regulate properly and management runs the ship aground it is not obvious why 6,500 staff should pay th...

The write-offs published in DB's results show that despite all the market-leading positions the Bank may have in certain business segm...

The 9-month results for Nomura Holdings offer a slightly more positive picture but given the generally favourable market conditions experi...

Another day, another disclosure of a massive derivative loss. Given the astronomical amount of outstanding (OTC) derivative contracts (and ...

Quarterly figures just released by Goldman Sachs this morning demonstrate (again) that the firm plays - what should be a simple game - bett...

Nothing but a very thorough review of the losses made by the 'Whale' was to be expected but one still has to wonder how much good th...

This tale of woe again demonstrates that relying on number crunching accountants and fee-hungry deal brokers is the wrong approach to acquis...

Hewlett-Packard could easily become Exhibit Number One for any future case studies about the dangers and pitfalls of hastily concocted acq...

If it would not be printed in black and white I would believe that this initiative comes from a third-rate bucket shop ( Bloomberg ). That ...

Not only does one have to ask why a large bank all of a sudden finds that it would be necessary to amputate a huge chunk of its operations i...

That some employees at Citigroup may be in shock  ( Financial Times ) about the sudden departure of the CEO speaks volumes about the fact ...