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The real problem with Google isn’t privacy, it is market dominance 15 Oct 2012 | 04:19 pm
Today, the Guardian reports, the EU will, via the French body responsible for data protection, CNIL, address Google’s disregard for Europe’s data protection laws and authorities in respect of its deci...
RBS Director: We’re clueless about IT, we need external consultants… 5 Jul 2012 | 08:14 pm
We’re clueless about IT, says RBS Board director Chris Sullivan, head of RBS UK Corporate Banking, told the Northern Ireland assembly this morning that RBS would commission an independent re...
The truth that RBS wants to hide: The Ulster Bank system has collapsed and won’t be fixed even by 22nd July 4 Jul 2012 | 09:08 pm
Ulster Bank customers queue in the rain to get money Ulster Bank is now claiming that most, not even all, customers accounts will be back to normal in the week beginning 16th July – that’s the week e...
What the CEO of Barclays Bank, Bob Diamond, really meant to say in that memo 3 Jul 2012 | 05:04 am
Here’s Bob Diamond’s memo, with a few italicized changes to make it seem more sincere… It has been an incredibly tough period for all of you given the nature and volume of negative comment that ha...
GSK and Barclays: Excessive pay, weak corporate governance, greed and lack of ethics go together 3 Jul 2012 | 12:52 am
Drugs company GSK has just been fined an astonishing $3 billion by regulators in the US for fraud which Deputy US Attorney General James Cole described as “unprecedented in both size and scope”. GSK ...
The resignation of chairman Marcus Agius demonstrates the complete breakdown of corporate governance at Barclays Bank 2 Jul 2012 | 05:04 pm
Marcus Agius should, and could, have sacked Barclays CEO, Bob Diamond, over the LIBOR scandal, which has destroyed Barclays’ reputation with the public, regulators and governments, particularly in the...
Central Bank of Ireland demands answers from RBS over on-going Ulster Bank fiasco – now ten days 29 Jun 2012 | 06:11 pm
cantankerous has previously reported the growing anger of the Irish government with RBS. In an unusually candid statement issued yesterday, Ireland’s central bank has expressed its growing impatie...
Channel 4 exposes how Hester rejected RBS insider’s warnings to MP in 2010 of the ‘enormous risk’ of ‘total outages’ due to offshoring and outsourcing 28 Jun 2012 | 04:57 am
At last, a mainstream broadcaster begins to question the RBS PR spin that the NatWest and Ulster Bank fiasco, still not over, has nothing to do with its sacking of hundreds of experienced and highly-q...
The RBS Billion Pound Difference: 99% is not 100% 27 Jun 2012 | 06:36 pm
RBS is currently spinning that it has recovered 99% of the financial transactions of its RBS and NatWest customers and the mainstream media seem quite happy with this. But anyone with even a rudiment...
The RBS, NatWest, Infosys, India offshoring/outsourcing story of the replacement of highly-trained and experienced UK staff with poorly paid Indian ‘f... 26 Jun 2012 | 05:02 am
UPDATE 13:57 26/6/12: I’ve just been told that, as expected, this CV has now been deleted. I wonder why Infosys and RBS would want confirmation of the Infosys work on batch processing on RBS’s IBM ma...
