Bremner, Bird & Fortune: Where did all the money go, and where does it come from?
Silly Money was a four-part series on the banking and financial crisis featuring the comedy quartet of Rory Bremner, John […]
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Dear David Cameron: Entrusting economic policy to ex-investment bankers is no solution
When David Cameron reshuffled his cabinet earlier this week, the arrival of a trio City of London bankers and consultants
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
How London became the money-laundering capital of the world. Guest post by Rowan Bosworth-Davies
By Rowan Bosworth-Davies Speaking on the Marr Show on BBC One on March 23rd, the former Daily Telegraph editor and
The 12 Barclays scandals that cast doubt on Diamond’s testimony
Smearing the facilitators? Ex-Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond had been tipped to ‘throw his toys out of the pram’ in
Ex-RBS chief Fred Goodwin will tell court: I did nothing wrong
Disgraced former Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Fred Goodwin will tell a court he didn’t dupe the bank’s shareholders
Financial regulation: with Griffith-Jones’ appointment, Britain keeps it in the family
I was surprised and exasperated to learn last week that chancellor George Osborne has rubber-stamped the appointment of John Griffith-Jones,
Fear and loathing in City of London as Barnier taps raw consumer power
Michel Barnier is viewed with a mixture of fear and loathing in the City of London. In the Square Mile,
The Economist loses the plot with this pro-City propaganda
I was surprised and disappointed when I opened my copy of The Economist on Friday morning. The magazine is running
Andy Haldane’s proposals for breaking the bankers’ doom loop
For a central bank director, Andy Haldane is remarkably alert to the widening cracks in the global financial system. Delivering the
Occupy: “The dukes and earls in America’s great tower of bullsh*t are starting to blink”
What is Occupy Wall Street and what is it trying to achieve? There may be a good few Maoists, Trotskyists, Anarcho-Syndicalists
Charting the psychological journey of UBS “rogue” trader Kweku Adoboli
The gigantic $2.3 billion losses that Union Bank of Switzerland is blaming on a Ghanaian-born “rogue” trader have added power
Without a proper inquiry into what went wrong, John Vickers risks tilting at windmills
The Independent Banking Commission was established by the UK’s coalition government in June 2010 as a means of kicking a thorny and
Did Sir John Vickers’ Independent Banking Commission go far enough?
This morning I was listening to Nicky Campbell’s phone-in programme on BBC Radio 5 Live. The topic was the final
It’s dawning on policymakers that letting bankers take the wheel means the economy gets driven into a cul-de-sac
There are eerie parallels between the continuing precipitous falls in the shares of European and UK banks and the stomach-churning
The US downgrade has benefited Treasuries but sent France and French banks reeling
US Treasuries’ unexpected reaction to the US downgrade When Standard & Poor’s stripped the US of its ‘AAA’ credit rating
Board’s role ‘off limits’ in police probe of alleged £1bn HBOS fraud
THE police force investigating an alleged £1 billion fraud at the former Reading operation of HBOS has no plans to probe
Lack of liquidity bad for big bond funds
There were a few raised eyebrows in the City when fixed-income manager Rod Davidson declared recently that lack of liquidity
Alex Salmond’s silence on banking is “elephant in room” for Scottish independence
Since Alex Salmond’s Scottish National Party secured a majority in Scotland’s parliamentary elections on 5 May, there has been much debate about
Lloyds faces protest over boss’s £13m ‘golden hello’
Lloyds Banking Group is facing a protest vote from investors against the £13.4m package and generous pension awarded to chief
The PPI racket reminds us that, for Britain’s banks, business as usual was rotten
There was a great editorial in Friday’s Guardian. As the UK banks including Royal Bank of Scotland, together with the