Let’s emancipate ourselves from financial slavery. Guest post by Paul Moore
By Paul Moore Ian Fraser’s introduction: Paul Moore, the ‘HBOS whistleblower’, has launched a new organisation, the New Wilberforce Alliance, […]
HBOS
Corruption allegations, major fraud inquiries, links to pornographic magazines … and a luxury yacht. Welcome to the world of banking 2012
Police are poised to press charges against several HBOS bankers and consultants after a two-year investigation into large-scale fraud, money
Loss of trust
Scottish banking was once renowned for prudential management. Today the association is rather different. Financial journalist Ian Fraser gives his
Adam Posen: it’s time the UK stopped “fetish-ising” its banks
The American economist Adam Posen, a member of the monetary policy committee of the Bank of England, recently told a conference
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,
Clydesdale’s retreat
It was supposed to be Scotland’s safe bank. What went wrong? By Ian Fraser Call it Cameron Clyne’s ‘Derby’ moment.
‘Now that the FSA chief executive has gone – its chairman should be next’
One of Scotland’s highest-profile investment experts, Alan Steel, has called on Financial Services Authority chairman Lord Turner to “consider
FSA bombshell changes everything for ex-HBOS directors Crosby, Stevenson and Cummings
Yesterday was an extraordinary day in the world of banking. First we had confirmation from Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group and
Fallon moves to prevent Hector Sants’s appointment as head of FSA successor body
Hector Sants, chief executive of the Financial Services Authority, should not be allowed to run the regulator’s successor body the
FSA’s Hector Sants passes the buck for the financial crisis
At a hearing of the Treasury Select Committee held in Portcullis House on 30 January 2012, Hector Sants,
Stripping Fred Goodwin of his knighthood won’t solve the banking crisis
The current cross-party campaign to have Sir Fred Goodwin stripped of his knighthood makes for entertaining viewing, but I’m afraid
KPMG and the HBOS whistleblower
KPMG was already auditing Halifax when the ex-building society merged with Bank of Scotland a decade ago, and the audit
The FSA’s cosy deals are a travesty of regulation
Ever since its failures as a regulator first became widely apparent with the collapse of Northern Rock in September 2007, the UK’s
Lloyds Banking Group sued by Invista over non-payment of fees
Asset managers lose patience over £500,000 unpaid bill Lloyds Banking Group, whose shares tumbled last week on investor concern that
Paul Moore: if profit’s the only goal, people inevitably pursue improper means
Calls for a radical rethink of the political and economic system from the “HBOS whistleblower”, Paul Moore, could not have
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
On banking, David Cameron is either clueless or a liar
David Cameron displayed an astonishing lack of understanding of the banking sector in his interview with Sarah Montague on the
Without a proper inquiry into what went wrong, John Vickers risks tilting at windmills
The Independent Banking Commission was established by the UK’s coalition government in June 2010 as a means of kicking a thorny and
Did Sir John Vickers’ Independent Banking Commission go far enough?
This morning I was listening to Nicky Campbell’s phone-in programme on BBC Radio 5 Live. The topic was the final
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