Alex Salmond’s silence on banking is “elephant in room” for Scottish independence
Since Alex Salmond’s Scottish National Party secured a majority in Scotland’s parliamentary elections on 5 May, there has been much debate about […]
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The Osborne ultimatum: Banks must split or else
The announcement from Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne that British banks are going to be forced to “ring fence”
Clydesdale suffers £3bn setback in bid to buy Lloyds’ branches
FSA demands raise capital cost of acquisition, while Sir Richard Branson says he expects to bid for 600-plus network. By
The PPI racket reminds us that, for Britain’s banks, business as usual was rotten
There was a great editorial in Friday’s Guardian. As the UK banks including Royal Bank of Scotland, together with the
António Horta-Osório breaks banking’s mould
In Lloyds bows to the law, the Guardian’s financial editor Nils Pratley describes how the PPI misselling saga is likely to become a
Holyrood candidate Kit Fraser bares all (nearly) outside RBS AGM
Outside the Royal Bank of Scotland’s annual general meeting in Edinburgh, Kit Fraser stripped to his boxer shorts in protest
Fair Pensions exposes conflicts at heart of pensions management and calls for radical reform
FairPensions has produced an excellent, in-depth report which lifts the lid on the conflicts of interest at the heart of
‘Rent gougers’ in bailed-out banks should be stripped of subsidy via worldwide Glass-Steagall
William Hopper, co-author with his brother Kenneth Hopper of the excellent The Puritan Gift: Reclaiming the American Dream Amidst Global Financial
Britain is now ‘a financial rogue state, subverting safer finance’
A report rom the New Economics Foundation reveals that the UK has learnt nothing from the financial crisis of 2008-11. The report,
Libor-rigging probe raises questions about strength of banks‘ ‘Chinese walls’
One of the biggest financial scandals of recent weeks involves the alleged “rigging” of Libor rates by a group of
Police dossier says former HBOS directors failed to act on fraud allegations
FSA and Business Secretary Vince Cable among those handed evidence linked to Operation Hornet investigation into alleged £1 billion scam.
Our fuel is among heavily-taxed in the world – George Osborne’s second budget
In his second budget as chancellor, George Osborne sought to promote economic growth through tax cuts for businesses while pushing
Cogent King makes case for radical bank reform
It’s virtually unheard for the governor of a central bank to launch an outspoken attack on the integrity and purpose
Andy Haldane outlines proposals for breaking banking’s ‘doom loop’
The Bank of England’s Andy Haldane gave a fresh perspective on the causes of the global financial crisis and ran
Whistleblower alleges ‘largest sustained cooking of books in British financial history’
A CORPORATE whistleblower’s eight-year battle over his claims that Scottish Widows policyholders were deprived of £1.5 billion during the Lloyds
‘Project Merlin’ doesn’t quite do what it says on tin
Project Merlin, the wizard scheme originally dreamt up in 2010 by ex-Barclays chief executive John Varley and RBS chairman Sir
Carol Ferguson: Whitehall much easier to deal with than Brussels
The investment trust sector, eclipsed by the unit trust sector in the UK’s retail market, is due to receive a
Is the House of Lords’ crisis inquiry putting the FCIC to shame?
The many inquiries into the financial crisis have turned over plenty of stones but have failed to find any smoking
Mark-to-market is accounting a danger to capitalism
The interrogation of Barclays’ newly-installed chief executive Bob Diamond by the Treasury committee of the House of Commons last Tuesday
Paul Moore: FSA lacks the competence to investigate bank failures
Paul Moore, former head group regulatory risk at HBOS, has cast doubt on the rigour of the Financial Services Authority’s
Bob Diamond living in La-La Land
The Barclays investment banker told MPs on the Treasury Committee that the “period of remorse and apology” is over, and