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Bank of England job vacancy points to Vickers
It is the most powerful job ever advertised in Britain. It’s not just that the Bank of England Governor sets monetary policy, interest rates for savers and for borrowers.
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Has Barclays bank really turned over a new leaf?
After sneaking out news of multi-million pound payouts to top staff on budget day, can we believe Barclays has turned over a new leaf? Channel 4 News Business Correspondent Siobhan Kennedy thinks not.
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Has Barclays ‘learned the lessons of the past’?
As Barclays announces a big fall in profits and a revamp of its business, Channel 4 News looks at what went wrong at the bank and asks if the future will be any brighter.
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Libor rate-fixing scandal – the key questions
RBS is the third bank to be fined for attempting to fix the benchmark lending rate for financial institutions. What did these banks do and why does it matter?
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RBS fined for Libor rate fixing
Royal Bank of Scotland is fined almost £400m for its role in the Libor rate-fixing scandal, the third bank forced to pay a penalty by regulators in Britain and the US.
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Senior Barclays figures to retire
Barclays says finance director Chris Lucas, the only remaining top ranking executive at the bank following the Libor scandal, is to retire, along with group general counsel Mark Harding.
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Barclays boss forgoes bonus
It’s amazing isn’t it, that five years on from the banking crisis, bank bosses are still having to forego their bonuses for bad behaviour. Today it was the turn of Antony Jenkins.
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Top UK business stories in 2012: the scandals and highlights
From the euro crisis to Facebook’s IPO, Spain’s banks and the fiscal cliff, 2012 was bursting with business news – even knocking the royal baby off the front pages (on occasion). Here’s the countdown.
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Three arrested in Libor-rigging probe
The Serious Fraud Office confirms that three British nationals have been taken to a London police station as part of the investigation into the rigging of the Libor interbank lending rate.
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Commission to tear apart banking ‘greed culture’
The fate of British bankers is in the hands of 10 people tasked with reforming a culture of recklessness and crime. Meet the banking standards commission, who will tame the masters of the universe.
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Libor review calls for ‘complete overhaul’
An independent review into practices around Libor calls for a new body to regulate the inter-bank lending rate, but falls short of scrapping the benchmark.
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King’s ‘acceptable excuse’ for missing debt target
A green light for George Osborne to miss the debt target? In his interview on Channel 4 News, Bank of England Governor Sir Mervyn King hints that slow world growth would be an “acceptable excuse”.
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Fraud probe launched into Barclays’ Qatar payments
Barclays has named Antony Jenkins as its new chief executive, just hours after it confirmed that the Serious Fraud Office has launched investigations into the bank’s deals with Middle East investors.
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Mitt Romney’s golden gaffe in Olympics visit
Mitt Romney isn’t just meeting political leaders on his visit to London – he’s doing some serious fundraising too. But his trip didn’t get off to the best of starts.
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Key questions for MPs grilling Barclays and FSA
The committee investigating the Libor rate-fixing scandal questions Jerry del Missier, Barclays’ ex-chief operating officer, who reportedly earned £40m a year when the bank was rigging interest rates.
