Breakthrough in RBS trial as judge orders bank to produce Fred’s emails
The Royal Bank of Scotland has been rapped over the knuckles by a High Court judge over its failure to […]
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WeAreTheIntruders gatecrash bankers’ party to hand Barclays Libor rigging award
On Thursday, 4 October The Banker’s Investment Banking Awards 2012, a black-tie do in the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel, were gatecrashed
Dear David Cameron: Entrusting economic policy to ex-investment bankers is no solution
When David Cameron reshuffled his cabinet earlier this week, the arrival of a trio City of London bankers and consultants
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of the Too Big To Fail
Another great piece of subversive art by William Banzai 7. The shark’s head looks suspiciously like that of Goldman Sachs
Loss of trust
Scottish banking was once renowned for prudential management. Today the association is rather different. Financial journalist Ian Fraser gives his
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
Exchanges circle wagons as high frequency traders risk emasculation
High-speed traders use powerful computers to identify orders as they emerge and instantly trade ahead of them, hoping to
Thousands launch £3 billion legal action against Fred Goodwin
WARNINGS of legal action will be delivered today to former Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Fred Goodwin and his
MF Global collapse prompts regulatory rethink in Washington
A commissioner at a leading US financial regulator has launched a stinging attack on his own organisation, accusing it of
Looks like Fred Goodwin may face criminal charges after all
The FSA spent an estimated £10m on its report into the failure of RBS, including £7.7m paid to ‘Big Four’
Is BBC’s independent trader Alessio Rastani a prankster?
There has been much speculation that the “trader” who appeared on the BBC News channel yesterday may be prankster, and
Goldman Sachs’ stance marks Gordon Brown out as a man without shame
You may remember the classic scene in Casablanca in which the police captain Louis Renault raids Rick’s Cafe claiming to
The secrets and lies of Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown recently branded Goldman Sachs “morally bankrupt” and asked the FSA to investigate it. Yet he has turned a
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
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
Goldman Sachs boss defends ‘fair value’ accounting
The US authorities on 2 April decided to suspend fair value or “mark-to-market” accounting — whereby banks and other financial
Currency management: A long road ahead
PRODUCT FOCUS: ACTIVE CURRENCY MANAGEMENT Strathclyde and Lothian pension funds are just some of the investors that are allocating money
RBS’s £12bn rights issue – The bankers’ new clothes
RBS’s refunding move through a record £12bn rights issue is the first step in UK banks waking up from their
In pursuit of success on a silver platter: banks struggle in the private client asset management space
Despite a drive by high street banks to corner the market in financial advice for the rich, independents areholding their
World bank rebel wages war on Wall Street
Joseph Stiglitz is a rare breed, an heretical economist who has ruffled the self-satisfied global establishment that once fed him.
Granddaddy goes back to square one
One of the world’s greatest investment banks carries his name. Yet Bill Hambrecht turned his back on Hambrecht & Quist