Fox Business News's Charlie Gasparino has reported that Bank of America is coming under 'increasing pressure' from US government and regulatory officials to break up the empire, as it is thought to be still much 'too big to fail'.

You work hard all year looking forward to three weeks holiday over Christmas, only to fall ill on the second day in - bedridden for the entire period. And, of course, you conveniently recover the day before you are due to start back at work!

Forbes magazine has published its latest list of the world's richest and, for the third time in three years, there's a new name in top slot. And all of the top 10 are men.

Bloomberg reports that BNP Paribas retail banking head Francois Villeroy de Galhau has admitted that any further reduction in bonus payouts is likely to result in staff quitting the bank for rival firms.

It's 14th October, 2008. Hank Paulson (US Treasury), Ben Bernanke (Federal Reserve), Tim Geithner (New York Fed) and Sheila Bair (FDIC) had been busy trying to save the financial system from going to hell in a hand cart.