New year, new world order?
2013 is likely to be lucky for some countries but filled with foreboding for others – will this be a year in which the world order takes another shunt?
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Liberty Reserve, an online currency exchange described as “possibly the largest money-laundering scheme ever seen in the United States”, is shut down by the authorities.
Officials in South Korea are investigating a suspected cyber attack that shut down two major banks and three TV broadcasters, prompting speculation that North Korea was involved.
A few weeks into the Channel 4 News Data Baby project, and the first obstacle in navigating the digital world as “Rebecca Taylor” has already emerged.
The people of Wood Green in north London are pleading with a Miami auction house not to sell a Banksy mural which disappeared from a local wall – but is it too late?
2013 is likely to be lucky for some countries but filled with foreboding for others – will this be a year in which the world order takes another shunt?
Ongoing turmoil is blamed for African and Middle Eastern countries being named as the worst places to live in the world, with European cities the best.
Mark Carney, the current governor of the Bank of Canada, is announced as the surprise replacement for the governor of the Bank of England, Sir Mervyn King.
Britain feels there’s a painless – in national interest terms – way to settle this whole budget business.
People in some developing countries are paying nearly four times their weekly salary on food shopping, according to Save the Children.
It was a very different world in 2003 when the governor of the Bank of England landed the job. What would happen if he applied today?
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.
Desperate to cut costs, the NHS, police and councils are outsourcing more work to private firms. In the first of a special series, Channel 4 News asks if saving money means losing transparency?
The UK’s economy is not expected to grow at all in 2012 and it will take an “Olympic” effort and hard work to battle the eurozone crisis, domestic deficit-cutting and tight credit conditions.
For the first entry in his Olympics Scrapbook, Paraic O’Brien meets US comedian/activist the Reverend Billy Talen as he rails against the Olympics – “as bad as the Bank of England!”
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.