The city is also a principal banking and finance center, and the home to more than 30 international financial institutions, helping to make San Francisco rank eighteenth in the world's top producing cities and fifteenth place in the top twenty global financial centers.

FORBES: San Francisco

The Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards (from 4.40pm) will quiz Gavin Shreeve, Principal of IFS School of Finance and Simon Thompson, chief executive of the Chartered Banker Institute.

BBC: Week ahead in committees

Peers agreed that members claiming overnight allowances should supply documentation to the Lords finance department "to verify that their principal residence is outside Greater London".

BBC: Peers agree to new expenses rules on main residence

In his day job, Frey is a principal at a private equity firm, so his tales of high finance and low chicanery come from the perspective of a guy who's been there.

FORBES: Magazine Article

In letters delivered to the finance ministers of the Group of Seven countries, the principal Latin American debtor nations, the IMF and the World Bank, the Center calls attention to the growing inequities in the industrialized West's approach to funding Mr. Gorbachev's perestroika and the financial requirements of the flegling democratic governments of Latin America.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Ironically, at the beginning of April this year the finance ministry introduced a new rule under which pension funds could count life policies as investments guaranteed to return principal, thereby making it easier to invest in life insurance.

ECONOMIST: Not all it should be