The global scam that may prove terminal for Barclays, Lloyds and RBS
Bankers on the fiddle: Executives face extradition to US. Exclusive by Ian Fraser Executives and former executives of the Royal […]
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Ex-RBS chief Fred Goodwin will tell court: ‘I did nothing wrong’
Disgraced former Royal Bank of Scotland chief Fred Goodwin will tell a court that he did not dupe the bank’s
The Worst Bank in the World? HBOS’s Calamitous Seven Year Life
Lessons must be learnt from the short and calamitous history of HBOS, the bank which effectively went bust in September
Financial regulation: with Griffith-Jones’ appointment, Britain keeps it in the family
I was surprised and exasperated to learn last week that chancellor George Osborne has rubber-stamped the appointment of John Griffith-Jones,
FSA warned that transparency proposals for property portfolios will require banks to raise up to £40bn in fresh capital
HUNDREDS of property firms could be pushed into bankruptcy if the Financial Services Authority pushes ahead with a new “slotting”
The time is now. Why we need a proper, independent Public Inquiry into UK banks
Demands for a Leveson-style public inquiry into the UK’s dysfunctional banking sector are reaching a crescendo following the FSA’s partial
Hector Sants, the Independent and the £5,000 pay-off
Jim Parton, author of ‘The Bucks Stop Here’, reflects on his former colleague at stockbrokers Phillips & Drew, Hector Sants
Revealed: the hornet and the sting which are stopping us learning the truth about the HBOS’s collapse
Results released last Friday showed a sea of red ink engulfing the state-rescued Lloyds Banking Group. Trumpeted at the time
Deloitte and the demise of RBS
One of Fred Goodwin’s first acts on being appointed Royal Bank of Scotland’s chief executive on 6 March, 2000 was
RBS: Inside the Bank that Ran Out of Money (full one-hour documentary)
RBS Inside The Bank That Ran Out of Money is a major television project on which I worked as both
Occupy: “The dukes and earls in America’s great tower of bullsh*t are starting to blink”
What is Occupy Wall Street and what is it trying to achieve? There may be a good few Maoists, Trotskyists, Anarcho-Syndicalists
Clydesdale takeover could see ‘lots of Scots thrown out of their homes’, says expert
NBNK REFUTES CLAIM AS SPECULATION OVER BANKING DEAL GROWS. BY IAN FRASER The possible sale of Clydesdale Bank to an
Europe’s short selling bans suggest lessons of 2008 have gone unlearnt
The temporary short selling bans that have been imposed by Belgium, France, Italy and Spain in the hope of rooting out perceived
Board’s role ‘off limits’ in police probe of alleged £1bn HBOS fraud
THE police force investigating an alleged £1 billion fraud at the former Reading operation of HBOS has no plans to probe
Alex Salmond’s silence on banking is “elephant in room” for Scottish independence
Since Alex Salmond’s Scottish National Party secured a majority in Scotland’s parliamentary elections on 5 May, there has been much debate about
The PPI racket reminds us that, for Britain’s banks, business as usual was rotten
There was a great editorial in Friday’s Guardian. As the UK banks including Royal Bank of Scotland, together with the
Carol Ferguson: Whitehall much easier to deal with than Brussels
The investment trust sector, eclipsed by the unit trust sector in the UK’s retail market, is due to receive a
FSA will publish RBS report but, given sanitization, what’s the point?
The saga of the Financial Services Authority supposed “review” of the Royal Bank of Scotland’s pre-implosion behaviour is getting more
FSA’s attempts at an RBS whitewash take further knock… from WikiLeaks
A cable published by WikiLeaks and the Guardian suggests that, contrary to the recent “review” (or “whitewash”?) of RBS by
The FSA wanted someone to whitewash RBS and, sure enough, PWC obliged — the FSA’s RBS report, Part 2
The Financial Services Authority this morning declared that, after a 17-month “investigation”, it has concluded that none of the RBS
EXCLUSIVE: How the FSA helped to destroy UK building societies
The Financial Services Authority sat idly by while the UK’s building societies sector destroyed itself by gorging on Wall Street’s