Court of Appeal in Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo ruled that Libor & Euribor submissions should be the 'lowest'. Now, it has emerged that BBA, which oversaw Libor, considered and rejected this definition following consultation with central banks and others
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Man Utd win the penalty shootout and Antony turns to the Coventry players and cups his ears. Harry Maguire walks across to shake hands with them. The difference in class.

Well this is interesting 👀x.com/woodford/statu…

Here's some actually interesting political context about Iain Anderson of Cicero who opened the session declaring he is 'a political geek'. #IFGS2024 'If you read what Anderson wrote, if you read his report, and look at the “business” he “leads,” it becomes pretty clear that he

Oh here comes the question I actually suggested we ask about rising protectionism. Of course I had wanted to ask about CBDCs because that seemed to me to be the only fintech issue likely to become a campaign issue. But they weren’t keen to chat about that! #IFGS2024

Here’s the panel that I was supposed to be moderating, having been replaced by Edie Lush, who is definitely a much slicker presenter - no doubt about that! But the probing opening question: “what elections are you watching this year?”

Which would have been likely my question

Imagine my surprise when I was told at registration for today's #IFGS2024 Innovate Finance conf — where I was scheduled to moderate the below panel — that I had been CANCELLED.

Why? Because I declined to pre-submit the exact questions I was going to ask the panelists. This is

So if Liverpool don’t lose another league match, klopp’s 1st and last defeats will both be Palace.

🎙️Podcast: it’s Eid and no better time to understand Mo Salah, the greatest Muslim footballer of his generation, a beacon for millions of young Arabs and Egyptians after the Arab Spring, and probably the only footballer who has helped counter Islamophobia by scoring goals

Pay for highest paid/most skilled public sector workers (doctors, experienced teachers etc) has been cut drastically. Public sector diverging ever further from private sector. Papering over the cracks by bringing in more from abroad. Not sustainable.

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Things random strangers tell you when you go out and about with a disabled child:

1) In Sainsbury’s: they should be quiet
2) in McDonalds: they should probably eat outside if they are going to be too messy (contd)
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The man who’s putting Flora in everyone’s fridge - my interview with Upfield’s David Haines who has spent the last six years turning around the former Unilever spreads business that KKR bought for €6.8 billion in 2018 via ⁦Times Business⁩

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Today’s The Times and The Sunday Times column reviews a big week, just gone, for central banks. It’s all shaping up to be something for a “Super June” for the major CBs - but there is nothing easy in that judgement. A 🧵… thetimes.co.uk/article/mixed-… (1/n)

THE TIMES: Princess reveals her cancer and says: I’m going to be OK #TomorrowsPapersToday

I didn't receive 15 years of notice that my taxes were going up to fund the retirements the WASPI generation failed to save for. My friends learned about 18 months in advance that going to university would cost them £9k a year rather than £3k.

I also don't recall ministers

My Sunday Times piece today is on a new Productivity Institute/NIESR report which argues that enhancing the UK’s digital capacity should be an investment priority. It also mentions The Golden Shot:

Why GDP fails to measure the UK’s digital transformation

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Ahead of my appeal tomorrow ⁦Private Eye Magazine⁩ reveal the BOE was asking brokers to move their screens to change the Euribor rates. Though I never requested this of my brokers my lesser acts left me with a 14 year prison sentence…

Really Citigate Dewe Rogerson? 🤦‍♂️

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