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 […]
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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
Willam K Black: Many banks set out to defraud, but the authorities continue to turn a blind eye
It is astonishing that none of the bank executives who defrauded their own banks for personal gain before bringing down
Reinventing finance
The financial crisis that reached its height in Sept-Oct 2008 has presented a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reinvent finance, ensuring it
Jim Rogers: failed banks should have been left to go to the wall
Did the UK government have to risk bankrupting our economy by bailing out dysfunctional banks such as Royal Bank of
Gordon Brown’s medicine won’t solve this crisis, warns top quant Paul Wilmott
Paul Wilmott, a senior “quant” who has been warning bankers that the mathematical models they use to value their more
Stiglitz: Britain should have let basket case banks go bust
Professor Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel prize-winning economist and author of Globalization and its Discontents, has said that the UK should
Danger of death: Which audit firm will go down first?
The accountancy firms that audited our distressed banks are coming under increased scrutiny The partners of “Big Four” accountancy
Uncertain legacy of the man who broke Royal Bank of Scotland
AS the Royal Bank of Scotland announces that the reign of chief executive Sir Fred Goodwin will officially end on
HBOS: The crash landing
HBOS wasn’t a victim of “spivs and speculators” in the City; it was very much the author of its own
Scottish Agenda: Quiet assassins wait in the wings for bankers
An ousting is more likely to prove successful if shareholders gang up behind the scenes than if they shout their
The Competition Commission must protect small businesses
PRIVATE EYE calls the DTI the “Department of Timidity and Inaction” because of its persistent leniency towards big business. Following
Sharks and minnows feast together – Banks
The two world rankers made huge profits as they increased their focus on corporate banking, opening a gap in the
Their profit… whose loss?
Banks are raking in the profits but neglecting their customers HAVE you seen the Little Britain sketch in which a
In pursuit of success on a silver platter: banks struggle in the private client asset management space
Despite a drive by high street banks to corner the market in financial advice for the rich, independents areholding their
Spowart attacks Royal Bank of Scotland’s glory boys
RBS has been basking in the limelight of record profits. But Ian Fraser finds one of its rivals less than