Gordon Brown commissioned the Don Cruikshank report on banking, then largely ignored it
TEN years after Don Cruickshank published his Review of Banking Services is a good time to take stock of Gordon […]
March 2010
Sea snake deal gives Pelamis £5 million boost
THE era of commercial wave farms off Scotland’s coast has come a step closer following ScottishPower Renewables’ purchase of a
‘Big Four’ audit firms admit they misrepresented bank solvency pre-crisis
I was shocked by the testimony given by the heads of the “Big Four” accountancy firms — PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Deloitte,
US rescue plan: Stiglitz vs Gold
Three years after the crisis began is as good a time as any to take stock of the US policy
It was not lack of regulation, but lack of ethics, that killed The Street
The former Salomon Brothers bond trader who lifted the lid on sharp practice in Wall Street with Liar’s Poker in
Time for Sarbox to be rethought post-Valukas
The time bombs detonated by the court-appointed Examiner’s Report into the collapse of Lehman Brothers have by no means all
Funding mergers and acquisitions post-credit crunch
Mergers and acquisitions: Corporate treasurers are on the look out for imaginative but prudent ways of financing tactical and strategic
It’s time for a fundamental overhaul of the accountancy profession
America’s Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and its London-based counterpart, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), both privately-owned, self-regulatory bodies,
Lehman examiner’s report: London was the ‘Guantanamo Bay’ of finance
One of the most stunning revelations to come out of the Court Appointed Examiner’s Report into the bankruptcy of Lehman
Warren Buffett: failed bank CEOs must be made to feel more pain
Legendary Omaha-based investor Warren Buffett often uses his annual letter to shareholders in Berkshire Hathaway group, where he is chairman
Goldman’s reputational issues are more than skin deep
Goldman Sachs likes to think of itself as being so smart it is invincible but the truth is somewhat different. The