Pension giant considers RBS pull-out over governance worries
Scotland’s largest pension fund is considering disinvesting in Royal Bank of Scotland shares over concerns about poor environmental, social and […]
Dear PayPal: Wikileaks is not a terrorist organization
Much of the debate surrounding Wikileaks’s release of confidential cables sent by US diplomats to their bosses in Washington D.C.
The FSA/PwC investigation into Royal Bank of Scotland’s ‘bad decisions’ is a joke, right? — the FSA’s RBS report, Part 1
Royal Bank of Scotland probe THE Financial Services Authority’s obsession with “light touch”, laissez-faire regulation in 1997-2008 did more than
The FSA wanted someone to whitewash RBS and, sure enough, PWC obliged — the FSA’s RBS report, Part 2
The Financial Services Authority this morning declared that, after a 17-month “investigation”, it has concluded that none of the RBS
EXCLUSIVE: How the FSA helped to destroy UK building societies
The Financial Services Authority sat idly by while the UK’s building societies sector destroyed itself by gorging on Wall Street’s
Scottish Revolution – Alyson Stafford interview
One aspect of her job that Alyson Stafford relishes is her interactions with Scottish politicians, including first minister Alex Salmond
PFI/PPP players urged to hand money back to taxpayers
Leading PFI/PPP companies including Innisfree, Semperian, Serco, Skanska, Balfour Beatty, HSBC, Lloyds and RBS are being urged to hand some
Irish crisis: how the Celtic Tiger became a moggy
Taiwanese-based Next Media Animation has produced its take on 300 years of Irish history. Okay it does simplify things a
Irish bailout seems to unravel before it’s even announced
You know that things must be getting desperate in Ireland when significant numbers of the country’s population want to draft
Cantona’s talkin’ bout a revolution
In the last few days people have been asking me what I think of Eric Cantona’s call for a silent
Scottish dealmakers: in for the long run
Scottish dealmakers — corporate finance and M&A practitioners — have had to learn to adapt to a new economic environment,
Lloyds executioner with a talent for mimicking Ferraris
Mark Fisher, the low-profile “blustery Yorkshireman” and petrol-head, who was renowned for his ability to imitate the sound of a
Banker fears threaten Cairn Energy’s £5bn Vedanta deal
Cairn Energy’s plan to raise £5 billion through the sale of its majority stake in Mumbai-listed Cairn India to Vedanta
A growing numbness to scandal
Michael Lewis’s Vanity Fair article “Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds” is an excellent, if somewhat depressing read. Lewis himself describes
The delusional groupthink of New Labour and how it crippled the UK economy
I couldn’t believe it when I heard Lord Turnbull speak about the extent of former prime minister Gordon Brown’s self-delusion
Government dishonesty about the state of the banking system is a form of tyranny
William K. Black, professor of economics and law at the University of Missourri-Kansas City, and the senior regulator during the
‘Trust Me I’m A Banker’ / ‘Carry on banking’ – BBC investigation into bankers’ recidivism
BBC Scotland’s Trust Me I’m A Banker, an investigative documentary fronted Mark Daly on which I advised and helped to
Lloyds chief denies taxpayer is losing out because of ‘dealmakers’
Lloyds Banking Group’s executive director of wholesale banking, Truett Tate, has defended alleged “rewards for failure” for a team of
Former HBOS banker bailed over alleged money-laundering
A former HBOS banker who has been linked to an alleged money-laundering scandal was arrested and bailed last week by
Banking’s Abu Ghraib
A fourth person has been arrested in relation to Thames Valley Police’s investigation into “corruption and large-scale fraud in connection
Europe’s “stability fund” unlikely to be up to the job
Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spain’s prime minister, recently declared the European sovereign debt crisis was over. He told the Wall Street