FCA Cancels Report Into Banking Culture

A major report on banking culture was just quietly scrapped https://t.co/7xzvqSoNQd

— Indy Business (@TheIndyBusiness) December 31, 2015

Why has the FCA cancelled its report into banking?

Hello Kitty Hacked

Hello Kitty hacked with the data of 3.3m users making its way online #Cybersecurity https://t.co/DuG4Vrr1SJ

— Wils Bell (@Sec_Headhunter) December 22, 2015

Another day, another hack!

Let's face it, computer databases and systems are security disasters waiting to happen.

Septic Bladder Finally Lanced

Sepp Blatter, Michel Platini banned 8 years by FIFA committee https://t.co/i8psl11QAd

— USOSINT (@USOSINT) December 21, 2015

Europe Isn't Working

UN Human Rights expert finds “Humanitarian crisis in #Greece has worsened” after 5 years of austerity program https://t.co/r0yGijfhWv

— Keep Talking Greece (@keeptalkingGR) December 8, 2015

Diamonds Aren't Forever

Things have gone very, very wrong for one of the world's biggest mining companies https://t.co/WTF2sJff5B pic.twitter.com/BEfrd8sU6W

— Bloomberg Business (@business) December 9, 2015

Bank of England Talks Big Mortgage Numbers

*BOE SAYS GROSS MORTGAGE ADVANCES ROSE 18% IN Q3 VS Q2 / That sounds like a big number to me.

— Guy Johnson (@GuyJohnsonTV) December 8, 2015

The Cloud Doesn't Have a Silver Lining

Despite Microsoft's marketing hype, the Cloud sometimes does not have a "silver lining".

The Telegraph reports:

"Microsoft's Office 365 services - which provide online access to Word, Excel and Outlook, among other software - was offline for many users across Europe on Thursday due to a problem with Microsoft's cloud computing service, Azure. 

Many users reported being blocked from accessing the Office 365 portal, with Down Detector, a website that tracks outages, seeing a spike in reports. Many appear to be related to problems signing in to Outlook, Microsoft's email portal."

Stick to desktop applications, and beware sharing data on a shared resource such as the Cloud.

Greek Bailout Delayed

#EU official on #Greece: Complete 2nd set of milestones or the money will be available later 'under new conditions'. https://t.co/w3XX0MQMNB

— Yannis Koutsomitis (@YanniKouts) December 3, 2015

Alleged Greek Agreement Reached

DIJSSELBLOEM SAYS AGREEMENT REACHED ON SECOND GREEK MILESTONES

— MineForNothing (@minefornothing) December 2, 2015

All very well and nice, except that it's not in Dijsselbloem's gift to judge the validity or otherwise of any "agreement" made; it's down to the Quadriga.

UK Banks Pass Stress Test

The Bank of England has, for the second year running, conducted stress tests on seven major UK banks.

All passed.

However, Royal Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered were the weakest and were found not to have enough capital strength. They both took steps to raise capital, and as such were not told to come up with a new plan.