Finance Links

Ah, George Papandreou: FT Alphaville is starting to see method to your madness.

Greece’s prime minister continued his formidable run of attention-grabbing statements on…

Want to ensure that your bank is well-managed? Then appoint a cynical Scotsman to its audit committee.

Such was the advice proffered, in apparent seriousness, by the UK’s…

The Crisis, by Alan Greenspan.

It sounds like an airport novel. But the 66-page paper is the closest we’ve ever gotten to a mea culpa from the former Fed chief, who chaired…

Shareholders in Lloyds Banking Group received a positive surprise on Friday morning.

The partly state-owned bank a released a statement guiding that it will be profitable at…

Elsewhere on Friday,

- When emerging markets emerge.

- Tinker, tailor, soldier, hedge fund manager.

- Avoid Irish banking’s example, America.

- More on how to shut banks down properly….

Tidjane Thiam, chief executive of Prudential of the UK, knocked back an offer to join Société Générale’s board after investors were astonished that he could consider such…

JPMorgan Chase suffered a blow on Thursday from an Australian court ruling that could affect the amount investment banks charge clients involved in takeover bids, the FT said….

Tidjane Thiam, chief executive of Prudential of the UK, knocked back an offer to join Société Générale’s board after investors were astonished that he could consider such…

More bad news for Anglo Irish Bank, via Reuters on Thursday:

Irish police have arrested Sean FitzPatrick, the former chairman of Anglo Irish Bank, as part of a fraud investigation…

Ah-ugh! (click for sound effect.)

An unnerving glitch appears to have sprung up in FT Alphaville’s newly-launched Greekbailout-0-meter.

Thursday’s reading below read…