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The parliamentary banking commission says the three bankers who presided over the 2008 HBOS collapse should never work in the City again. But why were they not stopped? And what is their punishment?
More than 12,000 private shareholders, who paid out money to help RBS during the financial crisis, launch a potential £4bn claim against the bank and its former bosses.
Top level investors who stumped up to help RBS weather the financial crisis, now claim key documents around an emergency share sale were inaccurate and misleading, and are suing the bank for millions.
Royal Bank of Scotland pays more than £600m in bonuses to its staff, despite a “chastening” year in which it made pre-tax losses of £5.2bn.
The Queen should no longer be expected to award honours to civil servants and business people for simply “doing the day job”, according to a parliamentary committee.
We have entered a new world. Politicians now appear sovereign over our banking system. Many in Britain will welcome that. For many, it will be a profound shock. And this is just the beginning, writes Faisal Islam.
As Bob Diamond resigns as chief executive of Barclays, Channel 4 News charts the career of a top financier who once famously said that the “period of remorse” for banks was over.
One holds the UK economy in his hands. The other’s role is even more important – at least if you ask some people. Channel 4 News checks the Top Trumps cards of Stephen Hester and Fabio Capello.
As the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’ birth is celebrated, Channel 4 News looks at the themes he might include in his novels if he were writing in 2012.
Royal Bank of Scotland chairman Sir Philip Hampton tells Channel 4 News RBS boss Stephen Hester is “low paid” compared to others in the banking sector, but admits pay generally is “very high”.
Jon Snow
Stephen Hester should be spared the vitriol he is receiving, argues Jon.
Amid the row over RBS chief executive Stephen Hester’s bonus, Channel 4 News looks at what has happened to the bank since he took over.
The author Roald Dahl and artist Lucian Freud are among more than 250 people who turned down honours from the Queen in the past 40 years, according to official government records.
Ten questions to find out how well Scotland’s economy could survive if it won independence.
SNP leader Alex Salmond tells Channel 4 News that the bad debts of the part-nationalised Royal Bank of Scotland should remain with the Treasury in London even if Scotland votes for independence.