Martin Lewis on today’s PPI court victory: banks have “behaved abominably” and “should hang heir heads in shame”
The High Court in London has today ruled that UK banks must compensate millions of people who they ripped off by […]
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Holyrood candidate Kit Fraser bares all (nearly) outside RBS AGM
Outside the Royal Bank of Scotland’s annual general meeting in Edinburgh, Kit Fraser stripped to his boxer shorts in protest
‘Rent gougers’ in bailed-out banks should be stripped of subsidy via worldwide Glass-Steagall
William Hopper, co-author with his brother Kenneth Hopper of the excellent The Puritan Gift: Reclaiming the American Dream Amidst Global Financial
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.
Cogent King makes case for radical bank reform
It’s virtually unheard for the governor of a central bank to launch an outspoken attack on the integrity and purpose
Andy Haldane outlines proposals for breaking banking’s ‘doom loop’
The Bank of England’s Andy Haldane gave a fresh perspective on the causes of the global financial crisis and ran
Whistleblower alleges ‘largest sustained cooking of books in British financial history’
A CORPORATE whistleblower’s eight-year battle over his claims that Scottish Widows policyholders were deprived of £1.5 billion during the Lloyds
‘Project Merlin’ doesn’t quite do what it says on tin
Project Merlin, the wizard scheme originally dreamt up in 2010 by ex-Barclays chief executive John Varley and RBS chairman Sir
Is the House of Lords’ crisis inquiry putting the FCIC to shame?
The many inquiries into the financial crisis have turned over plenty of stones but have failed to find any smoking
Bill Black: “Our financial institutions are being run by sociopaths”
Bill Black. As I’ve said before, William K Black, professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri, and
Bob Diamond living in La-La Land
The Barclays investment banker told MPs on the Treasury Committee that the “period of remorse and apology” is over, and
RBS executives seem to think they’re above the law
As they scramble to shore up their balance sheets, Britain’s banks are treating some of their corporate and small and
FSA’s attempts at an RBS whitewash take further knock… from WikiLeaks
A cable published by WikiLeaks and the Guardian suggests that, contrary to the recent “review” (or “whitewash”?) of RBS by
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
‘Trust Me I’m A Banker’ / ‘Carry on banking’ – BBC investigation into bankers’ recidivism
BBC Scotland’s Trust Me I’m A Banker, an investigative documentary fronted Mark Daly on which I advised and helped to
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
Banking’s Abu Ghraib
A fourth person has been arrested in relation to Thames Valley Police’s investigation into “corruption and large-scale fraud in connection
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
Adam & Company shake-up causing customers ‘anger and dismay’
The former chairman of Adam and Company has accused the current management of causing “dismay” and “anger” among customers of
Banks now in permanent role of looters
Regular readers of this blog may have noticed that I’m sceptical about the integrity of many bankers and suspicious of
Two steps forward … is the recovery of state-rescued banks RBS and Lloyds a chimera?
Three years after the onset of the credit crisis, when British banks including RBS and Lloyds narrowly avoided bankruptcy thanks