The rest of our highest-paid athletes are relatively scandal-free outside of Alex Rodriguez and the dark clouds building around Lance Armstrong.

FORBES: Rich Athletes Behaving Badly

But financial planner Jonathan Davis, of Armstrong Davis, said the building society's new policy was a "joke", and that it exposed the lender to further losses if house prices continued to fall.

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UBS, filed a lawsuit against a rival, Deutsche Bank, for refusing to pay out on a credit derivative on Armstrong World Industries, a maker of building materials based in Pennsylvania.

ECONOMIST: Credit derivatives