Was HBOS the worst bank in the world? You vote
The banking commission has savaged the way HBOS was run, but it is not the only bank that has struck terror into people’s hearts. Are these are the worst offenders? You decide.
963 items found
A plan to sell more than 600 branches of part-nationalised Lloyds to the Co-op for £750m falls through, as the buyer says the economic climate is too poor.
Lakshmi Mittal, who for eight years has topped the Sunday Times Rich List, loses his place to Alisher Usmanov – as Russians top three of the top five places.
For entrepreneur Rachel Elnaugh, Margaret Thatcher’s premiership helped make Britain great again. But for writer Naseem Khan, life under the Iron Lady inspired antipathy and a sense of injustice.
Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades has appealed to the European Union for help after his island was hit for another 6bn euros as the price of its eurozone bailout.
Will the Post Office’s plans to launch current accounts bring more competition to high street banking?
Damned by a parliamentary committee for toxic leadership of HBOS, Andy Hornby remains eligible to draw his £240,000 pension at 50 and still has his job running bookmakers Coral. Is this right?
Former HBOS chief executive Sir James Crosby says he will ask for his knighthood to be removed and will forego 30 per cent of his pension after last week’s report into the bank’s collapse.
Margaret Thatcher is often credited with reviving Britain’s ailing economy in the 1980s. But what has happened in the former coalfields since the mines closed?
The banking commission has savaged the way HBOS was run, but it is not the only bank that has struck terror into people’s hearts. Are these are the worst offenders? You decide.
Will anything be done? Will any of these people ever be brought to book? The record thus far suggests not a lot will happen.
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?
Bank of Cyprus savers with more than 100,000 euros (£85,000) could face losing up to 60 per cent, central bank and finance ministry officials say.
A raft of benefit changes sees the biggest shake-up of the welfare system in a generation.
Cyprus bailout: the inside story of a president “humiliated” by EU bureaucrats half his age, and of a country pushed over the edge in order to protect Greece.
As banks in Cyprus battened down the hatches because their customers were trying to take all their money out before it got taken off them, a particular word kept on being mentioned. Bitcoin.