banks

The Peoples Bank of Barclays from bushytailedfox 398 days old

So, how come Barclays can bid for bits of Lehman Brothers without having enough capital to be a viable bank? You know it makes sense But before they ...

The Libor rate from bushytailedfox 399 days old

The Libor rate is the average interest rate charged by banks when lending to each other. It should be near the Bank of England inter-bank rate, which ...

Preference Shares from bushytailedfox 403 days old

Tomorrow Alistair Darling will (apparently) announce that the government is going to take stakes in some of our banks to help re-capitalize them. The ...

Three Percent have Forty Percent from bushytailedfox 404 days old

I'm back to my numbers again. From tomorrow, the government is guaranteeing all bank deposits up to £50,000; currently the limit is £35,000. Actually ...

Shareholder Responsibility from bushytailedfox 413 days old

All these banking problems raise an interesting question about shareholder culpability. We seem to have reached the point where we all own shares directly, ...