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			<title>US citizens' lead the charge towards better banking</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[
A few months ago I wrote about what we can learn from the US banking system (albeit a system that caused the global credit crunch and subsequent recession) (Community Reinvestment: learning from the...]]></description>
			<author>Toby Blume</author>
			<category>Research - Community Reinvestment News</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:38:59 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Chancellor signals his support but a hard slog ahead</title>
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Although the headlines about the Pre Budget Report will inevitably be about the tax on bankers' bonuses and the Social Investment Bank being set up, the real news from my point of view was a commitm...]]></description>
			<author>Toby Blume</author>
			<category>Research - Community Reinvestment News</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:46:17 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Numbers of ‘unbanked' fall, but celebrating the end of financial exclusion is premature</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[
I went to an excellent conference organised by Runnymede Trust (http://www.runnymedetrust.org/) last week on financial inclusion and equality, which included a fine array of speakers and delegates f...]]></description>
			<author>Toby Blume</author>
			<category>Research - Community Reinvestment News</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:25:03 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Shuffling of papers suggests signs of activity at the Treasury</title>
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Apologies if you felt somewhat bombarded by my repeated calls urging you to respond to the Reforming Financial Markets White Paper and add your voice to the call for real banking reform. It's been a...]]></description>
			<author>Toby Blume</author>
			<category>Research - Community Reinvestment News</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:38:03 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>PM calls for responsible finance</title>
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On the first anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, politicians, bankers and commentators were queuing up to pass judgement on the financial services sector yesterday. The bankruptcy of the...]]></description>
			<author>Toby Blume</author>
			<category>Research - Community Reinvestment News</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:14:46 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Time for Responsible Finance</title>
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The original aim of our Community Reinvestment Banking paper (index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=474&Itemid=1) back in May was to kick-start a debate about the potential to improve society an...]]></description>
			<author>Toby Blume</author>
			<category>Research - Community Reinvestment News</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:29:26 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>What does £140bn buy you these days?</title>
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Figures recently released by the Office of National Statistics show that so far the government have spent over &pound;140bn bailing out banks. That massive investment means that there will inevitabl...]]></description>
			<author>Toby Blume</author>
			<category>Research - Community Reinvestment News</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:30:11 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Stop Attacking Bankers' Bonuses</title>
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No, of course I'm not suggesting for a moment that it's acceptable, sensible or desirable that bank executives earn millions of pounds in bonuses whilst sitting on piles of taxpayers' money. But the...]]></description>
			<author>Toby Blume</author>
			<category>Research - Community Reinvestment News</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:25:13 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Radical thinking, not more of the same</title>
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Despite the lack of ambition in the Conservative's banking reform policy white paper, the Shadow Chancellor is associated with some more radical proposals. George Osborne is a member of the Advisory...]]></description>
			<author>Toby Blume</author>
			<category>Research - Community Reinvestment News</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Reforming the Banking System</title>
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The Conservatives and Labour have both been setting out their plans for banking reform over the past week or two. First we had the government's &lsquo;Reforming Financial Markets' White Paper (http:...]]></description>
			<author>Toby Blume</author>
			<category>Research - Community Reinvestment News</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:11:01 +0100</pubDate>
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