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Paul Moore: Why Griffith-Jones must step down as FCA chairman

John Griffith Jones ex KPMG, currently with FCA

April 20th, 2013 Trust in UK financial regulation and auditing cannot be rebuilt unless John Griffith-Jones (pictured right) steps down as chairman of the Financial Conduct Authority, writes HBOS whistleblower Paul Moore, who is also calling for a public inquiry into KPMG’s pre-crash audits of the collapsed bank HBOS. The need for such an inquiry was reinforced on 11 April, [...]

April 20th, 2013 | Posted in Blog | Read More »

HBOS whistleblower hits back at Crosby claims

Paul Moore

By Ian Fraser Published: Sunday Herald Date: December 9th, 2012 Paul Moore, the whistleblower whose evidence was key to last week’s hearings of the parliamentary commission on banking, has accused his former HBOS boss Sir James Crosby of “trying to rewrite history” about Moore’s sacking from the Edinburgh-based bank. In an interview with the Sunday Herald, Moore [...]

December 11th, 2012 | Posted in Article Library | Read More »

It’s time the FSA learnt the lessons of Hillsborough. Eventually the truth will out

The Chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority, Adair Turner, poses for photographers before delivering his report into the global banking crisis,  London

September 17th, 2012 (Updated 11.25am) (edited Dec 16th 2012) Studiously ignoring the roles of “establishment” figures like Sir James Crosby and Lord Stevenson in the demise of disastrous Edinburgh-based bank HBOS, the Financial Services Authority is seeking to heap all the ordure on the less establishment Peter Cummings. Now I am not suggesting that Cummings is [...]

September 17th, 2012 | Posted in Blog | Read More »

McColl and Hunter attack FSA’s ‘disgraceful’ treatment of HBOS’s Cummings

Bank of Scotland

By Ian Fraser Published: Sunday Herald Date: September 16th, 2012 High profile figures say banker Peter Cummings has been made a scapegoat (Note: This is a longer version of an article published as the lead business story in the Sunday Herald on September 16th, 2012) Jim McColl, Scotland’s highest-profile business figure, has added his weight [...]

September 16th, 2012 | Posted in Article Library | Read More »

Let’s emancipate ourselves from financial slavery

Bob Marley

August 7th, 2012 By Paul Moore Ian Fraser’s introduction: Paul Moore, the ‘HBOS whistleblower’, has launched a new organisation, the New Wilberforce Alliance, which aims to free the world from the modern-day slavery caused by the financialisation of our culture that took root in the 1980s. Here, Moore explains how the recent revelations of rampant [...]

August 7th, 2012 | Posted in Blog | Read More »

Paul Moore: I can clear out Barclays’ ‘Augean Stables’

Paul Moore

July 10th, 2012 Paul Moore, the ‘HBOS whistleblower’, has put himself forward as Marcus Agius’s successor as chairman of Barclays. Moore first put himself forward for the role last Wednesday (July 4th) and is now proposing a formal manifesto of change for Barclays, with a view to cleaning up the scandal ridden bank in the wake [...]

July 10th, 2012 | Posted in Blog | Read More »

The Worst Bank in the World? HBOS’s Calamitous Seven Year Life

HBOS via The We

February 27th, 2010 (updated June 22nd, 2012) HBOS’s entrance on The Mound; Image: The We Lessons must be learnt from the short and calamitous history of HBOS, the bank which effectively went bust in September 2008, writes Ian Fraser (Note: This article was first posted under the headline “HBOS: When did the rot set in? [...]

June 22nd, 2012 | Posted in Blog | Read More »

The Worst Bank in the World? HBOS’s Calamitous Seven Year Life

HBOS via The We

Editorial note: June 22nd, 2012 A revised and updated version of this blog is now available via the following link:- The Worst Bank in the World? HBOS’s Calamitous Seven Year Life

May 13th, 2012 | Posted in Blog | Read More »

The time is now. Why we need a proper, independent Public Inquiry into UK banks

Lord Justice Leveson

March 18th, 2012 Demands for a Leveson-style public inquiry into the UK’s dysfunctional banking sector are reaching a crescendo following the FSA’s partial whitewash of the RBS collapse, a cover-up of events surrounding the Bradford & Bingley rights issue, doubts about the regulator’s commitment to getting to the bottom of what happened at HBOS and much establishment [...]

March 19th, 2012 | Posted in Blog | Read More »

FSA bombshell changes everything for ex-HBOS directors Crosby, Stevenson and Cummings

Gordon Brown and James Crosby

March 10th, 2012 Yesterday was an extraordinary day in the world of banking. First we had confirmation from Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland that they are doling out obscene sums in bonuses to executives, even as performance flags and share prices plunge. Then we had the ridiculous saga of the IDSA determinations [...]

March 10th, 2012 | Posted in Blog | Read More »

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