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Gillian Tett: The backlash against banks has barely started
It is difficult to imagine what was going through the brain of Goldman Sachs boss Lloyd Blankfein when the bank announced a $500m initiative to help small US businesses
Doomed to repeat history?
Trevor Greetham, director of asset allocation at Fidelity International, says that by focusing on leverage, this banking crisis can end well
Lessons of investing are ignored
Investment fads again seem to be the great driver of portfolio construction, rather than the basic principles of asset allocation
Insight: Are CoCos the sweet fix to bank failures?
Insight: Gillian Tett asks if we are ducking the real issue with talk of CoCos rather than finding a meaningful cross-border system to handle bank failures
Insight: Reclogging the US credit system
Caitlin Long looks at how the US financial system will cope with maturing debt which has a stranglehold on credit capacity
Insight: Redesigning a flawed system
John Plender asks whether any lessons can be learnt from the hedge fund business model for redesigning a flawed narrow banking system
Insight: Corporates hold key to recovery
The dominant contributing factor in this recession has been the collapse of corporate, rather than consumer, spending, writes David Bowers
Insight: The clearing house rules
Don’t let the fact that no clearing house has failed before create complacency, writes Gillian Tett
Insight: Safety net for money market funds
New standards are needed for risk and liquidity management within money market funds, says Hugo Bänziger at Deutsche Bank
Insight: WTI is losing its glitter
What’s surprising about Saudi Arabia dropping the Nymex contract as its benchmark oil price is that it took so long to happen, says Ed Morse
