The only banks that are truly 'open for business' are those that have received state funding, and this is on both sides of the book. O...

Doom is the only thing selling lately, but today we will bring you some of the Sunny statistics that are being largely overlooked. This...

I have covered the area of microfinance before, and in nations where it works the multiplier effect of the credit is said to be quite a...

A commentator talks about the euro, dismissing euroskeptics and euro bashers, arguing that it will be (perhaps) the new world currency?...

Banks are now reducing the LTV they will offer for new build properties but not in the second hand market and today we will look at why...

We wrote about this in the past, the risk associated with a ratings downgrade to the country, and here it is laid out in plain English....

The UK had a failed bond offering last week and that is giving the world some indication of the state of the UK economy. They have fail...

My youth spent in Los Angeles had the theme of water conservation built into it, so water has always had a special place in my world vi...

I'm off the deep end today, I think we need a new business model in banking and I don't think the finance people have it, I think peopl...

I was on twitter the other day and made a comment '2008 was the year of facebook but 2009 is twitter' and I got a few responses, what s...

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