It's certainly not going to be easy for Nike to distance themselves from Pistorius. And they won't be helped by having Nike adverts appear next to editorial stories of brand ambassadors caught up in all sorts of trouble. But this is going on every single day in markets across the world. Due to the nature of online advertising, once an advert is sent out from the original advertiser, they basically give up their control of where the content lands.

On Friday afternoon, frozen food giant Findus reiterated its apology over some of its beef lasagne products containing horse meat, saying it was "sorr...

Although Barclays are shaking up their investment banking operation with a commitment to stop helping companies manage their finances in a way that avoids paying tax, making preparations for the possible fall out from their interest only mortgage book would be a positive move.

It must be very frustrating to spend months working on The Budget only to find that the whole thing is reduced to a few choice words: granny tax and pasty-gate.

Barclays PLC completed a UK corporate first last Friday when the first page of its annual financial results was headlined 'citizenship' and did not mention profits or dividends.

My day has been about biscuits.

Systems will fail. People will make mistakes. But those who lead and need public confidence to operate need to be learning lessons before things go horribly wrong.

The phone-hacking scandal reminds us how much the world depends upon one commodity. Not money - confidence. So what if a crisis of phone-hacking proportion was unearthed in your business?

Most people thought that Rebekah Brooks would have gone a lot earlier than she did. But knowing when to leave is not easy.