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Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

The Wells Fargo - Wachovia merger blog

US bank Wells Fargo is taking its experience with social media into unchartered territory (for the banking industry) with the launch of a new blog designed to keep customers up-to-speed with progress on its merger with Wachovia. The Wells Fargo - Wachovia blog will feature regular contributions from five team members - including CEO John Stumpf - ...

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Corporate Debt - A Lender's Perspective

In the paper today was a truly staggering figure - £110 billion of corporate debt that will need to be refinanced in 2009. That is probably a conservative figure, focusing only on the larger companies. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Contrary to what FDs are probably thinking, if I were still a banker, I'd be offering eye-wateri...

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SEPA and PSD business case - there is still hope!

Highly praising the effort, achievement and activities of the EPC and banking community, I have an opinion that the decision on the part of the EC, ECB and national central banks / regulators to manage SEPA implementation and migration in the 'self-regulated' mode was a costly mistake. The criticism of the EPC and the banking community, although s...

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1970's Revisited

The twenty-teenies look to me as if they'll be a replay of the 1970's, here in the UK. No, I don't mean loon pants, two-tones, bad hairdos, glam-rock and tank-tops (but you never know...). No, I mean Sterling crisis, IMF, rampant inflation and industrial strife. Think about it for a minute. First, just like the '70's, we have the imminent collap...

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1.6bn goldmine for City workers

I've noticed my journey into work appears to be taking longer on the Northern Line these days with a deal of waiting around at Kennington. So - plenty of time to read the Metro - the free paper - which displays its Daily Mail leanings quite often. Today I spotted the story about Goldman Sachs paying out HUGE bonuses. The US-based firm lost £1.36 b...

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Credit Reports - A Tax By Another Name

I've never received a letter quite like the one I received, over the weekend, from one of my credit card providers. It started with the sentence "Please sign and return the attached application form today to be entitled to a copy of your personal Credit Report." No point in beating about the bush, I guess. None of the flowery rhubarb y...

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A Strictly Important Lesson To Learn

UK residents couldn't have possibly missed the furore about "Strictly Come Dancing" on Saturday - either as viewers of the programme or as observers of the news media subsequently. The events that have played out, and are still playing through, are a great advert for what happens when you don't think things through properly. There were ...

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Forcing Banks to Lend Part 3

If anyone needed convincing that interfering with 'proper' lending decisions by forcing banks to lend makes things worse, they need only look at the latest HBOS numbers. Huge increases in bad debts from dodgy loans and yet the authorities here want them to turn the taps on again...? At the moment, a lending banker must surely be asking searching ...

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One Million Jobs Lost Globally - More To Come

In September, I blogged here on Finextra saying (paraphrased) 'sell NOW, we have already, it is going to get a lot more ugly and could be worse than 1929'. By my count the global job losses (based on a pretty quick scan, it is probably a lot more) is over 1m now, mostly in recent months. I've put the full list up below but the finextra site still ...

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Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Stat of the year: That ABN Amro valuation revisited

A variation on this stat has been doing the rounds for a few weeks now, so forgive me if you've seen it before. I picked this up from the aptly-named Doomsday Report blog. In October last year, RBS paid $100 billion for ABN Amro (80% cash), and faced a fair amount of shareholder opposition to the valuation. If they were to use that money today, ac...

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