Write-Offs: 02.05.13
$$$RBS reaches Libor settlement [FT]
$$$Bernanke Voiced Alarm Over Credibility of Ratings Firms [Bloomberg]
$$$ The Receivables Exchange [Sober Look]
$$$Rollover Risk as Market Discipline: A Two-Sided Inefficiency [FRBNY]
$$$ Goldman has a new "what kind of banker would you be?" quiz [Bloomberg View]
$$$ "Staff at a Japanese zoo have been practising procedures designed to recapture escaped animals in the event of an earthquake. An employee of Tama Zoo outside Tokyo donned a zebra costume during the drill as emergency workers set up a barricade. Carrie Gracie describes how the scenario culminated in the 'zebra' being tranquilised." There is video. [BBC]
$$$ Highland is looking for a desk analyst for credit trading in Dallas [DBCC]
$$$Nasdaq Talks Settlement in Facebook IPO [WSJ]
$$$ LBOs, junk yields, and earnings yields [Free Exchange]
$$$Two students lose fingers in tug-of-war at California high school [Reuters]
$$$Death Star Lollipops [Copyranter]