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  • The blog's first birthday

    Its now a year since the blog started. Since then, 213 postings have appeared. It is now read in 72 countries and 620 cities (shown above). Most encouragingly, readership continues to steadily increase. Since January, it has risen a further 301%. The blog's aim is to identify 'the influences...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-05-2008

  • Northern Rock, Carlyle, now Bear Stearns

    We have now seen 3 financial disasters in a matter of days: • Northern Rock , the UK’s 5th largest mortgage lender, was nationalised last month, after failing to secure sufficient funds to continue lending. • Carlyle , one of the world’s largest private equity firms, saw their $16.6bn mortgage fund default...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-16-2008

  • UK nationalises Northern Rock

    The UK government has today nationalised the country’s 8th largest bank, responsible for 18.9% of UK mortgage lending. You may remember that Northern Rock was an immediate victim of the US subprime crisis . Its funding model, based on securitisation, failed to work once lenders became more concerned...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-18-2008
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