Banking report: still too big to fail?
Will a report aiming to shake-up the UK banking sector really change anything? Or will banking remain a so-called Inside Job?
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Will a report aiming to shake-up the UK banking sector really change anything? Or will banking remain a so-called Inside Job?
Faisal Islam’s full interview with RBS Chief Executive Stephen Hester.
Sweeping reforms that could break-up Britain’s biggest banks will be the central focus of the banking inquiry in the coming months, the head of the commission said today.
It says a lot, that we have learnt more about what brought down RBS from a US diplomatic cable leaked to an Australian than we have from British probes.
A financier whom I know calls me over the weekend about the Irish financial crisis. “Jon”, he says, “I trust you know that 80 per cent of the Irish banking crisis was caused by a handful of property developers taking massive punts on the housing and construction market?”
The ructions at the top of Barclays have been somewhat Shakespearean in character over the past few years. It was said that US-born investment banker Bob Diamond was the foil for the calmer, older school John Varley. Diamond, currently the president of Barclays, was the architect of the wildly successful purchase of the bankrupt core…
With London’s Paralympics just two years away, Channel 4 News’s Katie Razzall writes about her visit to see the English blind football team as they compete at the World Blind Football Championships.
Faisal Islam blogs on how the banks still face long-term funding problems, despite unveiling big profits this week.
The Bank of England Governor tonight confirmed that Hector Sants, the chief executive of the Financial Services Authority, has been persuaded to stay in office. “I am absolutely delighted that Hector Sants has agreed to remain at the FSA and then move to the Bank to become the first chief executive of the new prudential…
The Bank of England will tonight become the most powerful institution in Britain. To understand what is to happen at tonight’s Mansion House speech, you have to go back a year to last year’s Mansion House event. Then, with the recession and the financial crisis still raging, the Governor of the Bank of England and…
Cathy Newman checks it out It’s tough at the top – as Nick Clegg is beginning to find out. Since being elected leader in 2007, the Liberal Democrat leader has struggled to get noticed. No longer. But his newfound celebrity has a downside. His past is coming back to haunt him. Things that might have…
The Liberal Democrat turned to banking in this morning’s briefing and FactCheck turned to some of their statements.
Channel 4 News Economics correspondent Faisal Islam examines the news that the Bank of England loand more than £60bn to RBS and HBoS in secret.
Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow insists there are no signs of increaed credit being made available in Europe despite the campaigns by politicians and senior economists.