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Cultural mishaps of a Kazakh bank

Lightning never strikes twice…unless you are a Kazakh bank.

Or more specifically, unless you are BTA Bank. Remember them? The largest bank in Kazakhstan before the credit crisis, which defaulted on $12bn of debt in 2009?

Well, More…

EXCLUSIVE: MURDOCH CONTROLS ‘BANK’ FOR SUPER RICH (and poor)

If you register with Britain’s Financial Services Authority, you must be in the process of setting up an investment bank or something, right? And if you are doing that, then it must be for doing dodgy deals for squillionaires, More…

فاينانشال تايمز

Before some smartypants makes the obvious point — no, we do not currently have the ability to right-justify Arabic script here on FT Alphaville.

Maybe we should look to fix that.

The owner of this website is of course the fine education and publishing combine Pearson PLC, More…

A party political broadcast on behalf of the Conservatives

From an email doing the rounds in the City of London on Thursday morning:

The UK’s BB debt

Sean Corrigan of Diapason Securities brings us the following chart:
UK public indebtedness/disposable income - Diapason Securities

The clue is in the acronym (it’s a duo).

Tony Blair lands (yet) another job

Tony Blair on Monday landed another lucrative business contract, signing his second advisory deal with a financial services company since stepping down as UK prime minister. Zurich Financial Services, one of the world’s biggest insurance companies, More…

The BoE goes native: finance and government blur

Strange old world. First, we have our former prime minister proceeding with unseemly haste to the nearest US investment bank to give them the benefit of his wisdom.

Tony Blair’s decision to take the JPMorgan shilling, More…

Blair to advise JPMorgan

Tony Blair is joining one of the Wall Street’s best-known banks in what the former UK prime minister told the FT would be the first of a series of positions he expects to take in the private sector. Blair, More…

Blair aims to damp attack on private equity

Tony Blair mounted a strong defence of private equity on Tuesday as two top industry executives jetted into London to try to head off accusations of asset stripping and job cuts. The prime minister sought to damp the debate within the Labour party that gained traction when several contenders for John Prescott’s deputy leader’s job voiced concern about private equity, More…