Senior bankers should be jailed for reckless misconduct whilst managing banks, a parliamentary commission has concluded. The cross-party group's fi...
C'mon bankers. Re-invent banking. This is a big opportunity. Then you'll find your customers will come up with a more, ahem, grown up and positive sobriquet.
Things you thought you would never see Number One: The managers of a company actually losing money when the business they are running does badly. Th...
Hate bankers and love Bill Oddie? You've come to the right place! The comedian-presenter has made a video for Global Witness which sheds light on H...
Many of us are half-aware that such figures - these almost pantomime like caricatures of sloth and wretchedness - exist as a tiny minority, but the need to find a visible and sinister repository in which to place our fears is both seductive and satisfying
Rich Ricci, the man with the most easily mockable name and most flamboyant dress sense in banking, will retire in June as CEO of Barclay's investment ...
Bankers and other millionaires will receive a tax cut from Saturday - sparking a furious debate between the political parties. As the government tr...
The ten things you need to know on Tuesday 19 March 2013... 1) THE DEATH OF A 'FREE PRESS'. OR MAYBE NOT. The papers aren't happy. "Cameron, M...
Mehdi Hasan sits down with Labour’s fresh prince, Chuka Umunna, ahead of the Budget to talk bankers, business and why he would “trust Ed Miliband ...
Budget 2013 live : Follow George Osborne's announcement here with our 'At A Glance' guide to all the big decisions on the economy. Shadow business ...
Oh how the mighty have fallen... well not exactly. The EU's latest proposal to cap banker's bonuses at base rate wasn't exactly the Cleansing of the Temple, despite what Mayor of London Boris Johnson might think.
David Cameron has a Europe problem. While the UK Independence Party's popularity is currently surging, as evidenced by the 27% of the vote they received in last week's by-election to the UK parliament, he's feeling the pressure to lurch ever more the right and position the British Conservative Party as the Euro-sceptic 'voice of reason'.
Brussels is wrong to cap bankers' bonuses, just as it was wrong to propose a financial transactions tax a few months ago. Its thinking, however, is along the right lines; having failed to manage their businesses responsibly, bankers need to be kept on a tight leash.
You remember Sid, right? Back when what then passed for the commanding heights were being privatised in the late 1980s, ad agency BMP got taxpayers' money to convince taxpayers to buy shares in the taxpayer-owned British Gas. No doubt Vince Cable is already taking pitches today from Soho ad agencies wanting to help him giveaway shares in the taxpayer-owned Royal Bank of Scotland.
It is now six months since the LIBOR scandal erupted - and we are still trying to assess how much damage that and other scandals have done to public trust in the banks.
I believe that rules are made to be followed by the majority so that a tiny minority may break them with impunity.
Schools should equip children with intellectual learning and skills for life outside the school gates. One of the most important and practical skills throughout life - and one of the keys to a prosperous adulthood - is the ability to manage money competently.
Bonuses at part-nationalised Lloyds will be the lowest of any bank this year, its chairman told MPs and peers. Sir Winfried Bischoff said the bank'...
To restore trust in the banking system, financial watchdogs should be paid on a par with traders, bankers who have been found lacking in judgment shou...
Now listen very carefully - lawyers especially - I shall say this just the once: this is not incitement. Oh no. Definitely not. If, in any way, you sh...
Are you ginger? A mother? A journalist? A banker? German? Perhaps a ginger German journalist? Do you drink wine? Well you're in luck, for if you f...
With elections next year, Bangladesh is entering an unsettling period in its short history, as it drifts towards becoming a one-party state. If an opposition remains, which I remain hopeful it will, Bangladeshis must be given a fair and balanced view on the political choice that awaits them. While our politicians remain shamefully silent, we must defend those who are brave enough to speak out in Bangladesh. And whilst I go round taking the piss out of the not-so-great and the not-so-good in the coming months, I shall be thinking more than once how lucky I am to be able to do so.
Nearly nine out of 10 Britons want bankers put in jail if found guilty of fraud or manipulating financial markets, a survey shows today. The figure...
Bankers who fail to come up to scratch should be "struck off" in a similar way to poorly-performing doctors, a consumer group urged today. The call...
Five days a week, 52 weeks a year, the hard-working commuters of Essex flood into London's financial Square Mile and the towers of Canary Wharf to help keep the wheels of the British economy turning. Let me put it this way: Essex is a county of entrepreneurs, risk takers and dreamers.
