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Multinationals Regard Tax Avoidance as a Moral Imperative. Isn't it Time We Made Them Pay Up?

Thomas Midlane | Posted 30.12.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: UK, Jimmy Carr, Multinational Corporations, Apple, Treasury Select Committee, Tax, Finance, Bbc, Tax Avoidance, Accountancy, The Wizard of Oz, Paul Ryan, Tax Evasion, David Cameron, Facebook, Prime Minister, Google, UK Business, UK Politics News
Thomas Midlane

The global financial elite is operating in a mirror world, one in which black is white and up is down but, as Nigel Green makes clear, to do so would be a gross dereliction of duty to your shareholders.

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FSA Slammed For RBS 'Serious Misjudgment' Over Disastrous Takeover Of ABN Amro

Charlie Thomas | Posted 19.10.2012 | UK
Read More: Financial Services Authority, UK Money, Bank of England, UK News, Financial Services, Treasury Select Committee, Economic Crisis, UK Politics, Business News, UK Business, Royal Bank of Scotland, UK News

The financial watchdog and the Bank of England have received stinging criticism from MPs on the Treasury Select Committee over their behaviour during ...

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Banking Standards Commission Is Bungling Gender

Andrew Newton | Posted 16.11.2012 | UK
Read More: Barclays, Politics, Treasury Select Committee, Banking Standards, UK Parliament, Libor, British Politics, Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards, UK Business, Gender Equality, UK Politics, Women in Business, UK News
Andrew Newton

There's a question that has been bobbing around like a party balloon since it was first aired at the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos: would the global financial crisis have occurred if, instead of Lehman Brothers, there had been Lehman Sisters.

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'Highly Selective': MPs Slam Bob Diamond's Libor Evidence

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 18.08.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Bob Diamond Libor, Bank of England, UK News, Bob Diamond, Treasury Select Committee, Libor, Andrew Tyrie, Barclays, Libor Scandal, John Mann, UK Politics News

Former Barclays boss Bob Diamond was "highly selective" in his evidence to MPs, a powerful Parliamentary committee concluded on Saturday. The Treas...

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Barclays 'May Defer Bonus Payouts'

PA | Posted 05.08.2012 | UK
Read More: Bank, UK News, Bob Diamond, Treasury Select Committee, Barclays, Sunday Times Rich List, Libor Scandal, UK News

A pay scheme that could defer bonuses for Barclays bosses until they retire is being considered by the under-pressure bank, it was reported on Sunday....

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'Unfair And Unfounded' - Bob Diamond Strikes Back At MPs

Posted 10.07.2012 | UK
Read More: Marcus Agius, Barclays Bank, Bank of England, Paul Tucker, UK News, Bob Diamond, Treasury Select Committee, Libor, UK Politics, Commons Treasury Committee, Barclays, Bob Diamond Barclays, Libor Scandal, UK News

Bob Diamond has angrily rejected suggestions that he misled MPs over regulators' concerns about activities at Barclays. The bank's former boss said...

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Do We Face the Apocalypse: Or are We in It?

Hugh Salmon | Posted 08.09.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Corruption, Greed, Nicholas Mosley, Second World War, Politicians, Police, Judges, Bob Diamond, Glaxo Smith Kline, War, Rioting, Military Cross, Integrity, Austerity, Establishment, Politics, Social Structure, Apocalypse, Treasury Select Committee, FInancial Markets, Broken Society, Banks, Judiciary, Respect, Arson, First World War, Looting, Creative, UK Politics News
Hugh Salmon

Nearly a million British soldiers were killed in the First World War. Is this what they died for?

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'We Were Useless In Uncovering Truth Over Libor Scandal'

PA | Posted 09.07.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: UK News, Bob Diamond, Libor, Treasury Select Committee, UK Pols, Rate Rigging Scandal, Conservative, News, Andrea Leadsom, Scandal, Barclays, UK Politics News

A Conservative MP tasked with investigating the Libor rate-rigging scandal said she and her fellow politicians were "useless" in uncovering the truth ...

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Bank Of England Seeks To Clarify Bob Diamond's Claims

PA | Posted 04.07.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Bank of England, UK Parliament, Paul Tucker, UK News, Bob Diamond, Treasury Select Committee, UK Economy, UK Business, Bob Diamond Barclays, UK Politics News

Bank of England deputy governor Paul Tucker today requested to appear before MPs "as soon as possible" to clear up his role in the rate-fixing scandal...

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Diamond Days: What Will Bob Tell MPs?

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 04.07.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: UK Parliament, Bank of England, UK News, Paul Tucker, Bob Diamond, Treasury Select Committee, Libor, Jerry Del Missier, BOb Diamond Before MPs, UK Banking, UK Finance, Rate-Rigging, Barclays, UK Politics News

Former Barclays boss Bob Diamond is set to make an explosive appearance before MPs after dragging senior Bank of England and Labour politicians into t...

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Barclays Boss To Be Hauled Before Treasury Select Committee

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.06.2012 | UK
Read More: Government Inquiry, UK Banking, UK News, Bob Diamond, Treasury Select Committee, UK Finance, Barclays, UK Economy, UK News

Bob Diamond, the chief executive of Barclays bank, has been summoned before the Treasury Select Committee on Wednesday as the Government announced an ...

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Report Finds Light Regulation And Financial Failings Led To RBS Rescue

PA | Posted 10.02.2012 | UK
Read More: ABN Amro, UK News, 2008 Banking Crisis, Treasury Select Committee, Fsa, Rbs, Banking Crisis, UK Business, Royal Bank of Scotland, UK News

A long-awaited report into the failure of Royal Bank of Scotland will blame light-touch regulation and a catalogue of financial errors for pushing the...

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Banks Could Withdraw Cheques 'By Stealth' MPs Warn

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 24.10.2011 | UK Politics
Read More: UK Banking, Payments Council, Which?, Treasury Select Committee, Cheque Guarantee Card, Cheques, UK Politics News

Banks should not be able to decide the future of cheques, a committee of MPs has warned. The Treasury Select Committee said in a report released on...

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Half A Million Over 100 'By 2066'

Press Association | Press Association | Posted 03.10.2011 | UK
Read More: Office for National Statistics, Lord McFall, Treasury Select Committee, Nhs, Pensions, Ons, Ageing Poplulation, Department of Work and Pensions, UK News

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Twenty year olds are three times more likely to reach their 100th birthdays than their grandparents and twice as likely as their ...

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