The best of this week's The Ticker

We'll spare you our G20 posts, given that it's all you're going to hear about over the next couple of days. Despite the global summit hogging the headlines, it was quite a busy week for business news. 

This week's top posts

• Forget Ten, Time Warner should just stream HBO in Australia
   
• Meet the bank killers: The world's largest peer-to-peer lenders
   
• Backing themselves: The ASX executives with 'skin in the game' 
   
• Four graphs on how Australia is tracking in CEO gender equality
   
• Throwing money at R&D doesn't guarantee innovation, but in Samsung's case, it helps

Graph of the week: This year, Samsung spent as much as the GDP of Chad on R&D.