Dodd’s bill won’t prevent another crisis
Breaking up is the hardest things to do … Three years since the onset of the crisis, the United States […]
‘The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell’
I’ve just been reading the musings of Keith Yost, a disillusioned former Boston Consulting Group insider. In a series of
Scientist questions Scottish Government over research practices
A leading research scientist is calling for a full investigation into the Scottish Government’s approach to funding research and development
Scourge of the ‘Pinstripe Scargills’: Vince Cable has the policies to help Britain. But will he get the chance to implement them?
The Ask The Chancellors debate featuring Alistair Darling, George Osborne and Vince Cable got the Twitterati into such a lather
Gordon Brown commissioned the Don Cruikshank report on banking, then largely ignored it
TEN years after Don Cruickshank published his Review of Banking Services is a good time to take stock of Gordon
Sea snake deal gives Pelamis £5 million boost
THE era of commercial wave farms off Scotland’s coast has come a step closer following ScottishPower Renewables’ purchase of a
‘Big Four’ audit firms admit they misrepresented bank solvency pre-crisis
I was shocked by the testimony given by the heads of the “Big Four” accountancy firms — PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Deloitte,
US rescue plan: Stiglitz vs Gold
Three years after the crisis began is as good a time as any to take stock of the US policy
It was not lack of regulation, but lack of ethics, that killed The Street
The former Salomon Brothers bond trader who lifted the lid on sharp practice in Wall Street with Liar’s Poker in
Time for Sarbox to be rethought post-Valukas
The time bombs detonated by the court-appointed Examiner’s Report into the collapse of Lehman Brothers have by no means all
Funding mergers and acquisitions post-credit crunch
Mergers and acquisitions: Corporate treasurers are on the look out for imaginative but prudent ways of financing tactical and strategic
It’s time for a fundamental overhaul of the accountancy profession
America’s Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and its London-based counterpart, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), both privately-owned, self-regulatory bodies,
Lehman examiner’s report: London was the ‘Guantanamo Bay’ of finance
One of the most stunning revelations to come out of the Court Appointed Examiner’s Report into the bankruptcy of Lehman
Warren Buffett: failed bank CEOs must be made to feel more pain
Legendary Omaha-based investor Warren Buffett often uses his annual letter to shareholders in Berkshire Hathaway group, where he is chairman
Goldman’s reputational issues are more than skin deep
Goldman Sachs likes to think of itself as being so smart it is invincible but the truth is somewhat different. The
Why HBOS’s Cummings should hand back his rewards for failure
PETER Cummings, former head of corporate lending at HBOS, is the archetypal ‘fat bloke’ banker. He was handed an astonishing
Skulking in Gresham Street
Lloyds Banking Group, AKA “the most hated bank in Britain“, today unveiled higher-than-expected annual losses of £6.3 billion. The Gresham
Is the FSA finally getting serious about HBOS wrongdoing?
Jo Dawson and Dan Watkins, the two senior executives who resigned from Lloyds Banking Group on 5 February 2010, were
Adam & Company board cleared out as Royal Bank takes control
The Royal Bank of Scotland has seized operational and boardroom control of subsidiary Adam & Company and purged the private
Danny the champion of the world
This video of Danny MacAskill doing stunt cycling in Edinburgh was first released in April 2009 and first put on
Richard Curtis and Bill Nighy’s brilliant FTT idea
In this short video made by Richard Curtis, actor Bill Nighy plays a complacent banker who squirms at suggestions banks