Lax controls at HSBC allowed Mexican drug cartels to launder billions of dollars through the British bank’s operations in the US, an investigation has found.

The report by a U.S. Senate committee also claimed that HSBC provided banking services to some lenders in Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh

HSBC Allowed ‘Mexican drug Cartels To Launder Billions Of Dollars Through Its Banks’, Reveals Scathing Report From US Senators (Mail Online)

Also:

This is the British economic-policy establishment under unprecedented pressure – and what an unseemly, blame-ducking, buck-passing panic it presents. Not just the humbling of some of our most senior and respected officials but also the erraticism with which they have been making policy.

Libor Scandal: Gunfight On Threadneedle Street (Editorial, Guardian)

Seventy two.

Bruce Springsteen (and a little defiance) at the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin this evening.

Meanwhile, meet the Bruceoids:

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

Earlier, at the Merrion Hotel, before the gig…

Yay! Brooooooce!

Wait. You’re not Bruce.

(Pic: Oisin)

More shocked not to see a sea of them, quite frankly..

The RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin moments ago.

Thanks Daragh Ryan

Also:

Maryness asks (at 8.44pm):

Tell Bruce to sort out the sound! Awful from midway back!

 

Squee meets former Vita Cortex workers at Aras an Uachtarain this afternoon having  invited the laid-off staff – all members of SIPTU – to the Aras after they successfully resolved their 161-day dispute over outstanding redundancy payments. Bottom pic, from left: Kevin McCabe, Agnes McCarthy and Catherine McCabe.

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

The Mayo News can reveal that almost 2,000 young revellers are set to descend on the town on the night of Friday, July 27 next, around the same time as the Saw Doctors kick off the annual on-street Westport Music Festival.
The Project X Westport invitation specifies the Saw Doctors gig, which is already expected to attract thousands of fans and will be held at the open-air venue on the Mall. The invitation, which was sent to 3,078 Facebook members, says: “Saw Doctors playing the street festival at the same time so the craic will be had. Drinking on the streets is also permitted during the night so it’s a guaranteed piss up!”


Take it away, boys (from RTE’s Nighthawks, year unknown)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q1ijju1T4E

X Marks The Party In Westport (Aine Ryan, Mayo News)

Project X Westport (Facebook)

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