‘Hounded’ by Royal Bank of Scotland, Highland accountancy firm on the brink
A LEADING Highland firm of chartered accountants and tax advisers is facing bankruptcy following a lengthy dispute with the state-owned […]
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Tidal power: Scots warm to power of the sea
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Police dossier says former HBOS directors failed to act on fraud allegations
FSA and Business Secretary Vince Cable among those handed evidence linked to Operation Hornet investigation into alleged £1 billion scam.
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Whistleblower alleges ‘largest sustained cooking of books in British financial history’
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Paul Moore: FSA lacks the competence to investigate bank failures
Paul Moore, former head group regulatory risk at HBOS, has cast doubt on the rigour of the Financial Services Authority’s
Eurozone ripe for break up
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On bankers’ bonuses, Osborne remains captivated
Ever since Gordon Brown bailed out Britain’s banks in October 2008, the saga of bonuses has become one of the
Dutch pension firm Mn leads charge to sue RBS for subprime exposure
Dutch asset management group Mn Services is preparing to sue the Royal Bank of Scotland for damages after the Edinburgh-based
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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