‘Trust Me I’m A Banker’ / ‘Carry on banking’ – BBC investigation into bankers’ recidivism
BBC Scotland’s Trust Me I’m A Banker, an investigative documentary fronted Mark Daly on which I advised and helped to […]
bank failures
As the FSA is consigned to history, its light touch already being missed in the City of London
The Financial Services Authority—founded by ex-chancellor Gordon Brown in May 1997—is widely regarded as having made a dog’s breakfast of
Bust air firm may provide key to HBOS “controls failures”
Directors of an aviation business that crash-landed owing HBOS £113 million in September 2007 were allowed to buy the business
‘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,
Jim Rogers: failed banks should have been left to go to the wall
Did the UK government have to risk bankrupting our economy by bailing out dysfunctional banks such as Royal Bank of
Are “Big Four” accountants a waste of space?
From the evidence submitted to the Treasury Select Committee’s inquiry into the banking crisis, one might conclude that the profession
Time to audit the auditors — and especially KPMG?
The House of Commons’ Treasury Select Committee is to cross-examine representatives of the audit profession later this month as part
HBOS: The crash landing
HBOS wasn’t a victim of “spivs and speculators” in the City; it was very much the author of its own
The end of HBOS
How HBOS ran out of road Halifax Bank of Scotland — created from the expedient merger of Halifax and “Governor