Horta-Osório’s attempt to reinvent Lloyds is doomed unless the addresses sins of past
Hounded by HBOS as Horta-Osorio urges Lloyds staff to “bring out their dead” The patience of António Horta-Osório, the Portuguese-born […]
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Steve Baker’s bill would expose banks’ false profits, overstated capital and disguised losses
My work on the flawed nature of “mark-to-market” accounting and IFRS accounting standards has been included as supporting evidence in
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
The Osborne ultimatum: Banks must split or else
The announcement from Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne that British banks are going to be forced to “ring fence”
António Horta-Osório breaks banking’s mould
In Lloyds bows to the law, the Guardian’s financial editor Nils Pratley describes how the PPI misselling saga is likely to become a
Libor-rigging probe raises questions about strength of banks‘ ‘Chinese walls’
One of the biggest financial scandals of recent weeks involves the alleged “rigging” of Libor rates by a group of
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.
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
Lloyds executioner with a talent for mimicking Ferraris
Mark Fisher, the low-profile “blustery Yorkshireman” and petrol-head, who was renowned for his ability to imitate the sound of a
Government dishonesty about the state of the banking system is a form of tyranny
William K. Black, professor of economics and law at the University of Missourri-Kansas City, and the senior regulator during the
Lloyds chief denies taxpayer is losing out because of ‘dealmakers’
Lloyds Banking Group’s executive director of wholesale banking, Truett Tate, has defended alleged “rewards for failure” for a team of
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
Is BGC Partners being honest about its Mint deal?
David Mills, the founder of Core Enterprise Management and Quayside Corporate Services, is a past master of prepackaged administrations and
The ten firms that are having to do without David Mills
The founder and owner of Quayside Corporate Services — a self-styled turnaround consultancy that was pivotal to the Bank 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
Bank of Scotland Reading scandal suggests something was rotten at heart of HBOS [November 2008]
This article was written by Paul Hutcheon and me in November 2008 but has never before been published in its
I’m still in the game, says Murray, as Lloyds calls the shots
The tycoon, whose wealth has shrunk, tells Ian Fraser he has made mistakes but is bullish on the future Sir
Goldman Sachs’ stance marks Gordon Brown out as a man without shame
You may remember the classic scene in Casablanca in which the police captain Louis Renault raids Rick’s Cafe claiming to
The secrets and lies of Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown recently branded Goldman Sachs “morally bankrupt” and asked the FSA to investigate it. Yet he has turned a
Why HBOS’s Cummings should hand back his rewards for failure
PETER Cummings, former head of corporate lending at HBOS, is the archetypal ‘fat bloke’ banker. He was handed an astonishing