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 […]
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The global scam that may prove terminal for Barclays, Lloyds and RBS
Bankers on the fiddle: Executives face extradition to US. Exclusive by Ian Fraser Executives and former executives of the Royal
The Worst Bank in the World? HBOS’s Calamitous Seven Year Life
Lessons must be learnt from the short and calamitous history of HBOS, the bank which effectively went bust in September
Everyone in finance should read David Bermingham’s “A Price To Pay”. Guest post by Rowan Bosworth-Davies
By Rowan Bosworth-Davies White-collar crime, and particularly fraud and wrong-doing in the City of London, has been ignored by regulators
FSA warned that transparency proposals for property portfolios will require banks to raise up to £40bn in fresh capital
HUNDREDS of property firms could be pushed into bankruptcy if the Financial Services Authority pushes ahead with a new “slotting”
Clydesdale’s retreat
It was supposed to be Scotland’s safe bank. What went wrong? By Ian Fraser Call it Cameron Clyne’s ‘Derby’ moment.
‘Now that the FSA chief executive has gone – its chairman should be next’
One of Scotland’s highest-profile investment experts, Alan Steel, has called on Financial Services Authority chairman Lord Turner to “consider
The time is now. Why we need a proper, independent Public Inquiry into UK banks
Demands for a Leveson-style public inquiry into the UK’s dysfunctional banking sector are reaching a crescendo following the FSA’s partial
Hector Sants, the Independent and the £5,000 pay-off
Jim Parton, author of ‘The Bucks Stop Here’, reflects on his former colleague at stockbrokers Phillips & Drew, Hector Sants
Thousands launch £3 billion legal action against Fred Goodwin
WARNINGS of legal action will be delivered today to former Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Fred Goodwin and his
FSA bombshell changes everything for ex-HBOS directors Crosby, Stevenson and Cummings
Yesterday was an extraordinary day in the world of banking. First we had confirmation from Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group and
Fallon moves to prevent Hector Sants’s appointment as head of FSA successor body
Hector Sants, chief executive of the Financial Services Authority, should not be allowed to run the regulator’s successor body the
Revealed: the hornet and the sting which are stopping us learning the truth about the HBOS’s collapse
Results released last Friday showed a sea of red ink engulfing the state-rescued Lloyds Banking Group. Trumpeted at the time
FSA’s Hector Sants passes the buck for the financial crisis
At a hearing of the Treasury Select Committee held in Portcullis House on 30 January 2012, Hector Sants,
Deloitte and the demise of RBS
One of Fred Goodwin’s first acts on being appointed Royal Bank of Scotland’s chief executive on 6 March, 2000 was
Looks like Fred Goodwin may face criminal charges after all
The FSA spent an estimated £10m on its report into the failure of RBS, including £7.7m paid to ‘Big Four’
RBS: Inside the Bank that Ran Out of Money (full one-hour documentary)
RBS Inside The Bank That Ran Out of Money is a major television project on which I worked as both
The FSA’s cosy deals are a travesty of regulation
Ever since its failures as a regulator first became widely apparent with the collapse of Northern Rock in September 2007, the UK’s
Europe’s short selling bans suggest lessons of 2008 have gone unlearnt
The temporary short selling bans that have been imposed by Belgium, France, Italy and Spain in the hope of rooting out perceived
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
The FSA wanted someone to whitewash RBS and, sure enough, PWC obliged — the FSA’s RBS report, Part 2
The Financial Services Authority this morning declared that, after a 17-month “investigation”, it has concluded that none of the RBS