Robert Jenkins: Puncturing the bankers’ myths
Robert Jenkins has blown apart the self-serving myths peddled by banks and their lobbyists since the financial crisis, explaining how […]
Simon Carswell: Inside Ireland’s, and probably the world’s, worst bank
I’m halfway through Simon Carswell’s Anglo Republic: Inside the bank that broke Ireland, and it’s a gripping read. In the
Written evidence to the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards
Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards. Submission from Ian Fraser, 24 August 2012 [Update: January 12, 2013. This is my submission
Bremner, Bird & Fortune: Where did all the money go, and where does it come from?
Silly Money was a four-part series on the banking and financial crisis featuring the comedy quartet of Rory Bremner, John
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
Dear David Cameron: Entrusting economic policy to ex-investment bankers is no solution
When David Cameron reshuffled his cabinet earlier this week, the arrival of a trio City of London bankers and consultants
Emperor Draghi’s new clothes
Has Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, over-reached himself? Are sycophantic lieutenants and desperate national leaders telling
Resolving the banking crisis is going. torequire radical surgery and quiet determination
STANDARD Chartered, the London-headquartered bank that does most of its business in Asia, was – until the beginning of last week
Let’s emancipate ourselves from financial slavery. Guest post by Paul Moore
By Paul Moore Ian Fraser’s introduction: Paul Moore, the ‘HBOS whistleblower’, has launched a new organisation, the New Wilberforce Alliance,
Corruption allegations, major fraud inquiries, links to pornographic magazines … and a luxury yacht. Welcome to the world of banking 2012
Police are poised to press charges against several HBOS bankers and consultants after a two-year investigation into large-scale fraud, money
RBS accused of withdrawing job offer to Mexico drug deals whistleblower
The Royal Bank of Scotland has reneged a job offer to a leading anti-money-laundering expert who it appointed to help
A Parisian barge owner readies his craft for ‘la deluge’
Seems like this Parisian barge owner is ready for anything! The only civilian amphibious passenger vehicles to have been mass
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of the Too Big To Fail
Another great piece of subversive art by William Banzai 7. The shark’s head looks suspiciously like that of Goldman Sachs
Loss of trust
Scottish banking was once renowned for prudential management. Today the association is rather different. Financial journalist Ian Fraser gives his
The Royal Bank of Scotland’s empire of pain
In his glory days Fred Goodwin aspired to make Royal Bank of Scotland a global bank on which the sun
How London became the money-laundering capital of the world. Guest post by Rowan Bosworth-Davies
By Rowan Bosworth-Davies Speaking on the Marr Show on BBC One on March 23rd, the former Daily Telegraph editor and
Adam Posen: it’s time the UK stopped “fetish-ising” its banks
The American economist Adam Posen, a member of the monetary policy committee of the Bank of England, recently told a conference
The 12 Barclays scandals that cast doubt on Diamond’s testimony
Smearing the facilitators? Ex-Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond had been tipped to ‘throw his toys out of the pram’ in
The global scam that may prove terminal for Barclays, Lloyds and RBS
Bankers on the fiddle: Executives face extradition to US. Exclusive by Ian Fraser Executives and former executives of the Royal
The new economic thinkers who can rescue us from the current financial dystopia
I have written a five-part series for Mindful Money, exploring the ideas of a group of ‘new economists’ who argue