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Freshfields on dealmaking via Harvard, Hammond and Twitter...

Twitter can be a pretty horrendous place these days.

But you can still find the odd nugget of something interesting or useful among the whingeing, rowing and sometimes, quite frankly, harrowing images.

It takes, though, a certain type of person to know how to find and present that interesting or useful piece of information on Twitter and I'm not just talking about little old Betaville...

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Place idle investment bankers in branches, says former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England

Sir Paul Tucker told Radio 4 this morning that highly-paid investment bankers twiddling their thumbs during the crisis driven deal drought should go to work in the high street branches.

When asked by Mishal Hussein if was there anything he would be doing differently if he were in a policy making role today Sir Paul said:..

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