More than a third of financial services executives agree that their peers should be held criminally responsible for reckless behaviour, as this would be good for...
Banking does not have to be evil. It is absurd that we even have to say those seven words, but the last five years of scandals...
Banking does not have to be evil. It is absurd that we even have to say those seven words, but the last five years of scandals...
Sir Richard Lambert, former director-general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), has been tasked with setting up a new body that will monitor the standards...
The parliamentary commission on banking standards has asked the chancellor George Osborne to consider splitting up the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), in order to keep...
Some 2,436 City bankers received annual wages in excess of £870,000 in 2011, according to the European Banking Authority (EBA), as the row over excessive pay...
Sending senior bankers to prison for reckless behaviour may not bring about the wholesale positive changes regulators expect, according to the law profession’s trade body. The...
It’s been a week since the banking commission reported on the industry’s “shocking and widespread malpractice”. Apart from the initial flurry of media interest, the report is...
The parliamentary commission on banking standards’ latest report is a bit like reading the first part of The Lord of the Rings. There is incredibly dramatic and beautiful...
The threat of prison sentences would give bankers “pause for thought” in acting in a reckless, irresponsible and unsustainable manner, according to a major report by...
The parliamentary banking commission has criticised three ex-HBOS executives over their “colossal failure” amid the financial crisis of 2008, and called for the trio to be...
The parliamentary commission on banking standards, set up by the Treasury in response to the Libor scandal, has said greater steps need to be taken in...