Jon Snow
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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Jon Snow
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Standard Chartered shares rise as supporters rally round
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.
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Standard Chartered shares tumble after Iran claims
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.
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Standard Chartered ‘could take years to recover’
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.
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RBS pre-tax losses of £1.5bn in first half
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.
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Stock markets drop as ECB dashes traders’ expectations
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.
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Will new bank lending scheme help home buyers?
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?
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Double glitch hits NatWest and Nationwide customers
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.
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Who would be a banker these days?
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.
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Lord Stevenson: my battle with depression
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.
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Jon Snow
Banks, drugs, Mexico and jobs at the top
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.
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Will Co-operative’s expansion compromise its ethics?
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.
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Michael Crick
Questions mount for trade minister Lord Green
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.
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HSBC money laundering – what did Lord Green know?
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.
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Faisal Islam
As London tries to shine, the City is under global regulatory attack
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.
