The Business Herald 2013 Review – Professional Services
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Bank robbery?
Global restructuring group and RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank’s serial destruction of small firms In a recent Business Focus, the
£1 trillion timebombs that RBS must defuse
It won’t be broken up… but the future is far from plain sailing. By Ian Fraser Ross McEwan had
Review of the Year in Finance
The Libor scandal It was described as the banking industry’s ‘tobacco moment’. In June last year, Barclays was fined £290
UK: Divorce can be costly
Ian Fraser finds that Scottish independence would create a host of complications for newly created cross-border pension funds. But neither
Writing the wrongs of the financial crash
Fourdecades of laissez-faire policies have left Britain as a deeply indebted and uncompetitive economy that is unable to pay its way
Scottish jobs market strengthens
Totaljobs recently reported an unprecedented rise in job opportunities in Scotland. Financial journalist and author Ian Fraser explains why. As
Hester got RBS back on an even keel but at what cost?
Stephen Hester’s five years at the helm of Royal Bank of Scotland were nothing if not tumultuous. Under his predecessor,
Stephen Hester just doesn’t get it
Royal Bank of Scotland boss Stephen Hester was yesterday touring the television studios trying to convince us that he is
RBS’s light at end of the tunnel could be train that flattens it
AS the Royal Bank of Scotland boss Stephen Hester toured the broadcasters’ studios yesterday, he kept repeating the same mantras.
Stephen Hester: The great escape artist
It has been described as the biggest banking felony in history … yet no-one has been prosecuted for the Libor-fixing
HBOS whistleblower hits back at James Crosby’s claims
Paul Moore, the whistleblower whose evidence was key to last week’s hearings of the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards, has accused his former
François Hollande, the eurozone’s unlikely Thatcherite
Many of François Hollande’s predecessors as French president have publicly stressed the need for structural reforms – for example plans to
Clients must have chance to join RBS case, says lawyer
Fund managers who invested their customers’ money in Royal Bank of Scotland’s disastrous £12 billion rights issue in 2008 but
Book review: Going for broke
It was intended as a memorial to the Scots who died in the Napoleonic Wars. But it wasn’t long before
Fiscal cliff looms large for all of us
Stability of leadership has been confirmed in the US and China – now they need stability in their economies, or
Have we really rebuilt the Royal Bank of Scotland?
Stephen Hester and Sir Philip Hampton may be in bullish mood, but is RBS as strong as they claim? By
Campaign to clean up ‘rip off’ fund managers
Fund managers are ripping off their customers through a minefield of hidden charges, misleading advertising, and obfuscation over performance, according
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
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
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