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Live podcast – A Long time in Finance at The Library of Mistakes
It was a privilege to the guest on this live episode of the acclaimed podcast A Long Time In Finance
“The complex ethics of banking” – at the Weekend of Mistakes in Hay-on-Wye
This is another of the sessions that I did on banking at the Library of Mistakes’ inaugural Weekend of Mistakes
“Banks – a confidence trick that works… most of the time” – at the Weekened of Mistakes in Hay-on-Wye
This was one of three sessions that I did on banking and financial “errors” at the Library of Mistakes’ inaugural
My appearance on the Two Bulls In A China Shop stock trading podcast
It was a great pleasure to appear on the Two Bulls in A China Shop Stock Trading podcast with Kyle
“Spank The Banker” post-film chat
I was a guest alongside the economist and former MP and former member of the Treasury Committee George Kerevan, the
What the £1bn HBOS fraud tells us about the state of British banking
This is a fully-revised, updated and extended version of the article ‘Mafioso bankers and my part in their downfall‘ which
How to drive cultural change in the banking sector
By Cat MacLean On Tuesday 24th May I had the privilege of being asked to speak at Westminster – a
Just how corrupt is the UK?
How corrupt is Britain? Over the past few days quite a few people have been insisting Britain isn’t corrupt. They claim to
RBS boss Ross McEwan answers his critics live on LBC
Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Ross McEwan appeared on LBC for a half-hour phone-in chaired by Nick Ferrari on
RBS fails to get two key elements in £33 million swaps case struck out
A High Court ruling over evidence relating to its rigging of Libor and the destruction of businesses via its global restructuring
KPMG’s annual report — vague about ethics
By Atul Shah The growing size and influence of “big four” accountancy firms as they further transform themselves into global business
Open Letter to Nicola Sturgeon—are bankers ‘above the law’?
It’s increasingly apparent that supposedly “independent” prosecutorial agencies — the Crown Prosecution Service in England and Wales, and the Crown
The 47 scandals that prove it’s no time to go soft on banks
In a speech given at the Finance Watch conference in Brussels Robert Jenkins — former member of the Bank of England’s financial
George Osborne unveils a quack cure for RBS
It was midway between the canon of lamb and the passing of the port that George Osborne rose to his feet.
Steve Baker: The government is flying blind on banking
In a stark warning to the government, the MP Steve Baker has said we’re flying blind where RBS and the wider
Classic over-reach as Goodwin boasted about RBS’s immensity
The factsheet put together by RBS’s communications executive and deputy chief economist Andrew Wilson in February 2007 pleased his master
Joris Luyendijk: Don’t blame the bankers; it’s the system that must change
When trying to interview bankers and other City of London insiders for his Guardian banking blog three years ago —
Tony Blair slammed as a “warmonger” and an Israeli shill at Edinburgh Book Festival
Tony Blair has been branded a “war-monger” and an Israeli shill by emeritus professor at Oxford University Avi Shlaim, with
Hervé Falciani: HSBC leaks are the tip of the iceberg
Hervé Falciani is the man behind the largest leak in banking history. In this interview, filmed in February 2014, he
Bill Black: We’ve given bankers a licence to defraud
Video courtesy of the Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET), William K Black was interviewed by Marshall Auerback As a