June 29th, 2012 I just love this one. Apologies in advance to the sensitive, in case you’re offended by the repeated use of a certain word. It was made using Xtranormal h/t Anat Admati, professor of finance and economics Stanford Graduate School of Business. Follow Anat on twitter
June 29th, 2012 This is banking’s ‘Milly Dowler’ moment. Finally the blinkers are off and the rest of the world (by which I mean people like leading politicians and the mainstream commentariat) is waking up to the culture of self serving greed and corruption that has infested the UK’s banking sector, about which I’ve been […]
June 27th, 2012 I have just written a five-part series for Mindful Money, exploring the ideas of a group of ‘new economists’ who argue that alternative approaches to neoclassical thinking are essential if we are to emerge from the current financial dystopia Introduction — The End of Economics as We Know it The inhabitants of […]
By Ian Fraser Published: The Herald Date: June 26, 2012 Disgraced former Royal Bank of Scotland chief Fred Goodwin will tell a court that he did not dupe the bank’s shareholders when he asked them for £12 billion just months before its near-collapse, writes IAN FRASER. Mr Goodwin and other former directors are facing a £3bn […]
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? […]
By Ian Fraser Published: Qfinance Date: June 18th, 2012 I was surprised and exasperated to learn last week that chancellor George Osborne has rubber-stamped the appointment of John Griffith-Jones, the senior partner of KPMG, as chairman-designate of the Financial Conduct Authority, one of the two financial regulators that will take over from the soon-to-be-disbanded FSA. As […]
June 17th, 2012 Have NatWest and RBS gone rogue? Has the Royal Bank of Scotland, which has owned NatWest for the past 12 years, become a ‘rogue’ institution? And more specifically has its global restructuring group, formerly known as specialised lending services, become a quasi-criminal or mafia-like enterprise, whose focus is on the wholesale expropriation […]
June 16th, 2012 Satyajit Das, derivatives expert and the author of Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk, believes that trust has been one of the main casualties of the global financial crisis. In a speech titled ‘The End of Trust’, given at the Sydney Writers’ Festival last month, Das posed the question […]
June 14th, 2012 Ian Fraser’s introduction: This blog was written by Golem XIV, a pseudonym for filmmaker and author David Malone. Let me make it clear straight away: the lies, corruption, cowardice and greed of Spanish bankers and government officials is nothing special. What is happening in Spain now, reminds me of the likes of RBS and […]
June 13th, 2012 The IMF has produced a blog on the situation facing banks in Central and Eastern Europe. The majority of banks in the region are owned by Western European banks, and have therefore suffered as a result of the weaknesses of their parent institutions, which has caused the latter to withdraw billions of […]