Vivvo CMS 4.1 http://www.nanyang100.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. http://www.nanyang100.com/files.php?file=logo_top.gif http://www.nanyang100.com/ http://www.nanyang100.com/opinion/margaret-doyle/5482.html Margaret Doyle Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:37:00 +0800 Ireland's budget is painful, but insufficient. http://www.nanyang100.com/opinion/margaret-doyle/5326.html Margaret Doyle Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:13:00 +0800 Banks generally get the fuzzy end of the lollipop when private equity deals go wrong. That's because they have most to lose. In recent years banks put up around 70 percent of the capital used to back buyouts. http://www.nanyang100.com/opinion/margaret-doyle/5190.html Margaret Doyle Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:02:00 +0800 Amidst all the meaningless guff and expressions of solidarity around this week's G20 summit in London, a real doctrinal dispute rages. At risk are global accounting standards, which the profession fears are in danger of being hijacked by the French. http://www.nanyang100.com/opinion/margaret-doyle/5183.html Margaret Doyle Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:20:00 +0800 Abracadabra! Yet again, Barclays has pulled another rabbit out of its hat. With just days to go before the end-March deadline for the bank to apply for a government guarantee of its dodgier loans, it may again wriggle out of state control. http://www.nanyang100.com/opinion/margaret-doyle/4861.html Margaret Doyle Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:50:00 +0800 The Myerson divorce case in Britain makes compelling reading, as all rich bust-ups do. Regardless of whether the judges make Ingrid Myerson hand back 3.2 million pounds of her 11.1 million pound payout to compensate for the decline in her ex-husband's shares, she is a lucky woman. http://www.nanyang100.com/opinion/margaret-doyle/4797.html Margaret Doyle Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:34:00 +0800 City badboys should be afraid: very afraid. That's what Hector Sants says, anyway. The boss of the UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) may be talking tough but the market has yet to see his mettle. http://www.nanyang100.com/opinion/margaret-doyle/4785.html Margaret Doyle Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:18:00 +0800 Sir Fred Goodwin's pension sticks in the craw for many reasons. It is not just the size of the payout -- 703,000 pounds a year -- that rankles. Sir Fred told MPs in the British parliament in February that "my pension is the same as everyone else's in the bank who is in a defined benefit (DB) scheme." But that is not true. Like a growing band of business bigwigs, Sir Fred benefited from a bespoke pension scheme all of his own. http://www.nanyang100.com/opinion/margaret-doyle/4718.html Margaret Doyle Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:12:00 +0800 Rarely can so much value have been destroyed so quickly by so few. Thanks to what seemed to be a one-off chance to snaffle HBOS without trifling with pesky competition rules, Sir Victor Blank, chairman of Lloyds Banking Group, has finished it off as an independent entity. http://www.nanyang100.com/opinion/margaret-doyle/4629.html Margaret Doyle Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:30:00 +0800 HSBC is performing a u-turn. Barely six years after shelling out $14 billion to acquire Household Financial Corporation, http://www.nanyang100.com/opinion/margaret-doyle/4612.html Margaret Doyle Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:56:00 +0800 You can hardly blame Britain's authorities. Somewhat flat-footed when the credit crunch broke in August 2007, there is hardly a policy they haven't tried to rescue Britain's banks. Finally, the government has thrown caution to the wind to kill the idea that any big bank could be forced into bankruptcy. Nanyang100