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What do the Olympics tell us about ourselves?
We have known sporting prowess all our lives in every aspect of the game, but it has never before come together like this. In the Olympic ideal we have invested.
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We have known sporting prowess all our lives in every aspect of the game, but it has never before come together like this. In the Olympic ideal we have invested.
Standard Chartered shares rebound as British politicians and officials rally behind the bank, blaming protectionist US regulators for attacking London to boost Wall Street’s fortunes.
More than £6bn is wiped from the value of Standard Chartered after the banking giant is accused of hiding £160bn of transactions with the Iranian government.
A leading stockbroker tells Channel 4 News Standard Chartered’s share price “could take years to recover” from claims the bank helped launder money for the Iranian government.
Taxpayer-owned RBS lost £1.5bn in the first half of the year after an IT meltdown and setting aside funds to compensate customers mis-sold financial products. It now faces fines for Libor rigging.
Stock markets plunged and the cost of borrowing in Spain and Italy went up as the European Central Bank President Mario Draghi disappointed markets with a non-committal press conference.
The government’s new scheme to encourage bank lending is the latest attempt to kick-start the economy and a stagnant housing market. But will it help those trying to get on the housing ladder?
Hundreds of thousands of Nationwide customers have transactions debited twice, and some NatWest customers are unable to withdraw cash, in the latest technical problems to hit financial institutions.
Computer chaos at RBS, rate fixing at Barclays, HSBC used for money laundering. Banking has never been more criticised. So why do the job? Channel 4 News asks those with experience of the industry.
A leading businessman and peer tells Channel 4 News that the way society discriminates against people with mental health problems is like the scandal of the Salem witch trials in the 17th century.
So Paul Moore, formerly responsible for compliance at HBOS and who was sacked after warning in 2004 that the bank’s lending was risky and in serious danger of-heating, has applied to be the Chairman of Barclays. Mr. Moore, whom I met and talked with extensively last week, is unlikely to be hanging around his phone in the expectation of a Barclays call. Although, I have met no one who knows quite so much about where the more noxious of the banking bodies are buried.
The Co-operative triples its retail banking arm in a takeover of 632 Lloyds branches. But will the £750m deal compromise the bank’s prized ethical credentials? Channel 4 News investigates.
The Trade Minister Lord (Stephen) Green was today refusing to answer questions about what he knew about the large-scale money laundering at HSBC exposed yesterday by the US Senate Investigations Committee in a damning report.
Lord Stephen Green, the UK trade minister who ran HSBC when the bank facilitated criminal money laundering, faces calls to reveal what he knew and when.
There were various disgraces in the way the banks treated consumer and businesses with contempt over purchase insurance and interest rate swaps. But the Libor scandal seemed to be a quite incredible.