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26/05/13

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iConnect: Eat for cheap!

So what is ‘iConnect’? iConnect is a project started by the Innovation Society. It was initially started as an online marketplace but now we’re launching the “Big Plan” – Group Buying ...
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A look into the Bank of England’s monetary policy

The Bank of England (BoE) has kept rates at record lows of half a per cent for almost two years. Its ‘quantitative easing’ has purchased assets totaling £200 billion in ...
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  • Thursday January 27, 2011

Municipal bonds: The latest bubble?

As the sovereign default crisis in Europe continues to send tremors through the global financial system, the next perfect storm in the market may already be brewing on the other ...
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  • Thursday January 20, 2011

Bank bonuses again rile politicians

Business theorist Frederick Winslow Taylor believed that performance related pay was the way to encourage production and efficiency. Investment Banks have been paying bonuses on Wall Street and the Wharf ...
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  • Thursday January 20, 2011

Finance Society hosts first-of-a-kind trading game

On the 29th of November, teams from several universities from all over the UK competed in a never before seen trading simulation. The trading game held at Imperial was part ...
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  • Thursday January 13, 2011

A focus on: Basics of Islamic Finance

So, what is Islamic Finance, really? Give me the basics. To put it relatively simply, Islamic Finance is an alternative way of going about financial dealings; these are conducted in such ...
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  • Thursday December 9, 2010

Books for intellectual City type sellouts

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable” said Ezra Solomon. For more funny lines from ivory tower economists, the fantastic ‘Freakonomics’ and ‘Superfreakonomics’ books by ...
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  • Thursday December 9, 2010

What's the Future for BP?

Why is BP a good choice for graduates? Emma: We are interested in having a long term relationship with Imperial graduates as many of them have a desire to use their ...
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  • Thursday December 2, 2010

Rifts reappear less than a fortnight after G-20 pact

After meeting in Seoul two weeks ago, governments from the G-20 group of the world’s 19 largest economies plus the EU agreed to halt competitive currency devaluation in hopes of ...
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  • Thursday November 25, 2010

Imperial needs to start raising serious money

Imperial College has long wished and pledged to be among the world’s elite of academia, continuously making the assertion that it can stack up proudly against the financial mammoths that ...
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