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Just how corrupt is the UK?

By Ian Fraser 13th May 2016 How corrupt is Britain? Over the past few days quite a few people have been insisting Britain isn’t corrupt. They claim to see nothing wrong with Cameron describing countries such as Afghanistan and Nigeria, whose leaders were in London for the Anti-Corruption Summit in Lancaster House this week, as “fantastically corrupt”. When Cameron […]

May 13th, 2016 | Posted in Blog | Read More »

Hervé Falciani: HSBC leaks are the tip of the iceberg

February 14th, 2015 (updated February 20th, 2015) Hervé Falciani is the man behind the largest leak in banking history. In this interview, filmed in February 2014), he told the British filmmaker Nick Francis why he had little choice but to become a whistleblower after he discovered that the board of directors of his employer, HSBC, was allegedly […]

February 14th, 2015 | Posted in Blog | Read More »

Bill Black: We’ve given bankers a licence to defraud

February 7th, 2015 As a U.S. Federal litigator, Bill Black had a pivotal role in ensuring that hundreds of the bankers behind the U.S. savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s were put behind bars. Since then, he’s become increasingly exasperated by his country’s failure to prosecute any senior bankers for the much more serious and more damaging […]

February 7th, 2015 | Posted in Blog | Read More »

FCA colluded to cover up alleged HSBC fraud

January 23, 2015 (corrected March 2, 2015. See note) When John Griffith-Jones and Martin Wheatley, chairman and chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority, appear before the Treasury Select Committee at 9.30am next Tuesday, 27 January, the 13 MPs on the committee have an unprecedented opportunity to establish whether the FCA, just like its predecessor the FSA, is colluding with banks to cover up […]

January 23rd, 2015 | Posted in Blog | Read More »

Was Mallett thrown to the wolves to save BoE’s skin?

November 12th, 2014 Guest Post by Rowan Bosworth-Davies One of the major unexplained elements in the foreign exchange (forex) rigging case is the level of knowledge of manipulative activity possessed by the Bank of England. If it, as a leading market participant and a regulator, had prior knowledge that the forex markets were being manipulated, or […]

November 12th, 2014 | Posted in Blog | Read More »

Guest post: How Britain’s banks profit from distress

By James Nicholls October 23rd, 2013 Banks are in the business of making money – just like every other business – and they do this by providing bank accounts and lending money at a profit. So far so ordinary. They lend to individuals and businesses and most of the time this all goes well, in […]

October 23rd, 2013 | Posted in Blog | Read More »

The Parliamentary Review: Review of the Year in Finance

By Ian Fraser Published: The Parliamentary Review Date: September 30th, 2013 The Libor scandal It was described as the banking industry’s ‘tobacco moment’. In June last year, Barclays was fined £290 million by US and UK regulators and judicial authorities after it admitted to systematically rigging the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (Libor). Libor is the […]

September 30th, 2013 | Posted in Article Library | Read More »

HSBC still laundering money for terrorist groups, says whistleblower Everett Stern

September 18th, 2013 In the video interview above, former HSBC anti-money laundering compliance officer, Everett Stern, frankly describes the criminal methods used by HSBC to launder money for terrorist groups including Hamas and Hezbollah as well as for drug cartels and other criminals. Although the bank paid a $1.9 billion penalty as part of a record-breaking money laundering […]

September 18th, 2013 | Posted in Blog | Read More »

HSBC’s drugs money laundering settlement a mockery of justice, says Warren

March 7th, 2013 Senator Elizabeth Warren (Democrat-Massachusetts), has once again revealed the dangerous double standards at the heart of the US justice system. Appearing at the Senate Banking Committee, the former Harvard law professor questioned officials from the U.S. Treasury Department and the U.S. Federal Reserve over why criminal charges were not pressed on HSBC […]

March 7th, 2013 | Posted in Blog | Read More »

HSBC’s $1.9bn settlement sets (another) dangerous precedent

December 15th, 2012 Image: WilliamBanzai7 The ‘settlements’ that London-headquartered banks HSBC and Standard Chartered have reached with the US authorities over serious criminal offences — including sanctions-busting and aiding and abetting terrorism and the global drug trade — are a travesty of justice. Even The Economist, a publication of which I am not usually fan, had […]

December 15th, 2012 | Posted in Blog | Read More »

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