Steve Baker: The government is flying blind on banking
In a stark warning to the government, the MP Steve Baker has said we’re flying blind where RBS and the wider […]
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Classic over-reach as Goodwin boasted about RBS’s immensity
The factsheet put together by RBS’s communications executive and deputy chief economist Andrew Wilson in February 2007 pleased his master
Joris Luyendijk: Don’t blame the bankers; it’s the system that must change
When trying to interview bankers and other City of London insiders for his Guardian banking blog three years ago —
Tony Blair slammed as a “warmonger” and an Israeli shill at Edinburgh Book Festival
Tony Blair has been branded a “war-monger” and an Israeli shill by emeritus professor at Oxford University Avi Shlaim, with
Hervé Falciani: HSBC leaks are the tip of the iceberg
Hervé Falciani is the man behind the largest leak in banking history. In this interview, filmed in February 2014, he
Bill Black: We’ve given bankers a licence to defraud
Video courtesy of the Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET), William K Black was interviewed by Marshall Auerback As a
FCA colluded to cover up alleged HSBC fraud
When John Griffith-Jones and Martin Wheatley, chairman and chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority, appear before the Treasury Select Committee at 9.30 am next
Paul Mason is right to be angry with Royal Bank of Scotland
This is brilliant off-the-cuff reporting by Paul Mason, economics editor of Channel 4 News. It’s all very well for the
Danny MacAskill takes stunt cycling Skye high
For me, this is the best Danny MacAskill video ever… I particularly like the bit where fearless stunt cyclist Danny
RBS job advert casts doubt on the assertions of Sach
The Royal Bank of Scotland seems confused over whether its infamous Global Restructuring Group is run as a “profit centre”.
How City banks and brokers stitched up local authorities with LOBO loans
By Rob Carver (guest blog) First we had PPI. Then Libor. Then the misselling of interest rate swaps to SMEs.
Swaps film: how banks ran rings around SMEs
This short film uses extracts from a telephone call between a bank salesman and one of its business customers to illustrate how a bank, thought
RBS forced to recognise it’s not above the law after losing software dispute
Royal Bank of Scotland again discovers it’s not above the law. On Friday, a U.S. judge ordered the Edinburgh-based Royal
BBC South investigates: Lloyds Banking Group hopes if it stonewalls long enough, customers fleeced by Bank of Scotland will give up
Here is Nick Wallis and Laura Ansell’s investigative documentary for BBC South about Lloyds Banking Group’s shocking treatment of customers
Deadline looms for investors wishing to join action against RBS Group
Investors wishing to join the class action lawsuits against the Royal Bank of Scotland over its “misleading” April-June 2008 rights
How savvy Brewdog avoided selling its soul: Crowdfunding part one
When independent Scottish brewery Brewdog, broke UK records by raising £4.25 million through a crowdfunding exercise last December, the company’s
Chuka Umunna: PWC’s useful idiot?
I’ve long wondered how committed the Labour shadow business secretary and MP for Streatham Chuka Umunna really is to UK
EADS chief executive Robin Southwell drawn into a hornet’s nest
In June and August 2010, I reported on the business relationship between the EADS (UK) chief executive Robin Southwell (pictured
Jon Snow: ‘If RBS bosses didn’t know what was going on, they should be fired and prosecuted’
Here is the Channel 4 News report on the behaviour of RBS and its global restructuring group from Monday 25 November —
Ulster Bank whistleblower: ‘It was simply outrageous what went on’
A former insider at Royal Bank of Scotland’s Irish subsidiary, Ulster Bank, has shed further light on the alleged systematic
Jenkins: Three outrageous myths bankers have used to kill reform
Robert Jenkins, a founding external member of the Bank of England’s financial policy committee, says that bankers have successfully convinced