Has HBOS’s Peter Cummings lost touch with reality?
Peter Cummings continued to buy into failing property companies at full valuations five months before HBOS collapsed and seems rather […]
Peter Cummings
Why ex-HBOS chief executive James Crosby deserves no mercy
In a comment piece in Saturday’s Times, financial editor Patrick Hosking gave ten reasons why the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards must
Sir Ron Garrick fiddled while HBOS burned
It’s not often that I’m gob-smacked by the pronouncements of former directors of failed British banks. But, I was genuinely
Andy Hornby and Peter Cummings “engaged in boardroom brawl” as they led HBOS to disaster
My review of Ray Perman’s Hubris was published in the Scottish Review of Books at the weekend. The full review
Book review: Going for broke
It was intended as a memorial to the Scots who died in the Napoleonic Wars. But it wasn’t long before
McColl and Hunter attack FSA’s ‘disgraceful’ treatment of HBOS’s Peter Cummings
High-profile figures say banker Peter Cummings has been made a scapegoat Jim McColl, Scotland’s highest-profile business figure, has added his
Peter Cummings: The FSA’s approach is ‘tokenism at its most sinister’
Here’s a statement issued this afternoon by the former HBOS director Peter Cummings, in the wake of today’s 92-page Final Notice from
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
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
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
I’m still in the game, says Murray, as Lloyds calls the shots
The tycoon, whose wealth has shrunk, tells Ian Fraser he has made mistakes but is bullish on the future Sir
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
Why HBOS’s Cummings should hand back his rewards for failure
PETER Cummings, former head of corporate lending at HBOS, is the archetypal ‘fat bloke’ banker. He was handed an astonishing
Skulking in Gresham Street
Lloyds Banking Group, AKA “the most hated bank in Britain“, today unveiled higher-than-expected annual losses of £6.3 billion. The Gresham
Lloyds Banking Group: the new Enron?
Lloyds Banking Group has been given the go-ahead to proceed with a £13.5bn rights issue as part of a wider
Soft soaping Sir Victor Blank adds little to sum of human knowledge
Sir Victor Blank, who has been forced out as Lloyds Banking Group chairman by investors, has spent the weekend trying to
The recklessness of Cummings
Speaking on Bloomberg TV, Justin Urquhart-Stewart, director of Seven Investment Management, has described HBOS as being “pregnant with the spawn of
The extraordinary lapses that caused HBOS’s collapse
Introductory note: An edited version of this article was published on the BBC News website under headline Why did HBOS
‘Bling’ Crosby’s day of reckoning
This charade of apology is a diversion from bankers’ role in financial destruction Edith Piaf’s chanson “Non, Je Ne Regrette
Howard’s unorthodox riding style may yet cripple the black horse
Howard Brown, the Halifax teller-turned-minor celebrity, risks crippling his new steed, Lloyds TSB’s black horse, with his cavalier riding style. HBOS’s