Three held over fraud inquiry at HBOS
Thames Valley police arrest two men and a woman one of who is a senior HBOS banker as part of […]
Bankers’ response to Basel III suggests they’re some way from rebuilding trust
If British banks want to win back friends, they sure have an odd way of going about it. Their crabbit
Farmers shocked by inadequacy of SRA’s Burges Salmon “inquiry”
Talk about foot-dragging. The Solicitors Regulation Authority has been investigating the Bristol-based law firm Burges Salmon LLP and its partner
Buccaneering days are over for Aberdeen Asset Management
Martin Gilbert, fund-management’s deal maker extraordinaire, may have lost his appetite for deals but he has lost none of his
Adam & Company shake-up causing customers ‘anger and dismay’
The former chairman of Adam and Company has accused the current management of causing “dismay” and “anger” among customers of
Banks now in permanent role of looters
Regular readers of this blog may have noticed that I’m sceptical about the integrity of many bankers and suspicious of
Is BGC Partners being honest about its Mint deal?
David Mills, the founder of Core Enterprise Management and Quayside Corporate Services, is a past master of prepackaged administrations and
As the FSA is consigned to history, its light touch already being missed in the City of London
The Financial Services Authority—founded by ex-chancellor Gordon Brown in May 1997—is widely regarded as having made a dog’s breakfast of
Martin Gilbert calls for Britain’s big banks to be broken up
Martin Gilbert, chief executive of Aberdeen Asset Management, has declared that big institutions that straddle investment banking and commercial and
Bust air firm may provide key to HBOS “controls failures”
Directors of an aviation business that crash-landed owing HBOS £113 million in September 2007 were allowed to buy the business
The ten firms that are having to do without David Mills
The founder and owner of Quayside Corporate Services — a self-styled turnaround consultancy that was pivotal to the Bank of
Islay reaps its tidal power
The Hebridean island of Islay has teamed up with energy giant Scottish Power to tap a reliable source of electricity
Royal Bank of Scotland under siege for its “environmental vandalism”
The Camp for Climate Action, which was set up on parkland behind the Royal Bank of Scotland’s world headquarters at Gogarburn in Edinburgh
Angus Macdonald: the secret is to persuade people their waste can be someone’s raw material
Interview of the week: Angus Macdonald A little over three years ago, Angus MacDonald saw the future… and he decided
Two steps forward … is the recovery of state-rescued banks RBS and Lloyds a chimera?
Three years after the onset of the credit crisis, when British banks including RBS and Lloyds narrowly avoided bankruptcy thanks
Clueless banks happy to drift in a sea of inexactitude
Do the world’s leading banks have a firm handle on the true value of their assets, risk exposure (including the
Why Lloyds TSB’s “for the journey” ad campaign makes me feel queasy
Am I alone in finding the “For the journey” television commercials for Lloyds TSB (early example above) nauseating? I would
Hugh Hendry’s vision may be apocalyptic, but he’s still the acceptable face of hedge funds
The Scots hedge fund manager Hugh Hendry has lately become something of a media darling thanks to his sheer outspoken-ness.
Nonchalance of UKFI’s Robin Budenberg suggests UK government learnt nothing from banking crisis
The coalition government is reverting to type where appointments to UK Financial Investments, the vehicle established by the Labour government
Bank of Scotland Reading scandal suggests something was rotten at heart of HBOS [November 2008]
This article was written by Paul Hutcheon and me in November 2008 but has never before been published in its
What’s in a name? As failed accountants Vantis serially phoenix, Beavis and FRP by other names could smell as stale
A couple of new names have risen in the accountancy and insolvency practitioner firmament —Beavis Morgan and FRP Advisory. But