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CBI and Barclays still ensnared by the delusion of performance-related pay

By Ian Fraser Published: QFINANCE Date: April 27th, 2012 The debate over executive pay is turning ugly. In the UK, investor disquiet about the unwarranted rewards routinely doled out to bankers despite...

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Financial regulation: With Griffith-Jones’ appointment, Britain keeps it in...

By Ian Fraser Published: Qfinance Date: June 18th, 2012 I was surprised and exasperated to learn last week that chancellor George Osborne has rubber-stamped the appointment of John Griffith-Jones, the...

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Banking’s ‘Milly Dowler’ moment

June 29th, 2012 This is banking’s ‘Milly Dowler’ moment. Finally the blinkers are off and the rest of the world (by which I mean people like leading politicians and the mainstream commentariat) is...

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Durable change a long way off for UK’s scandal-ridden banking system

By Prem Sikka, University of Essex July 8th, 2012 The role of Barclays bank in manipulating the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) continues to dominate international financial media. The bank has...

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Dear David Cameron: Entrusting economic policy to ex-investment bankers is no...

September 7th, 2012 When David Cameron reshuffled his cabinet earlier this week, the arrival of a trio City of London bankers and consultants at Her Majesty’s Treasury went almost unnoticed. This in my...

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FSA plays dangerous game with relaxation of capital rules

October 10th, 2012 Today the Financial Services Authority formally relaxed capital and liquidity rules on UK banks in the vague hope this might kickstart lending and do something to ensure the UK...

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Yes Scotland’s crisis avoidance claim is just laughable

January 18th, 2013 (updated January 19th, 2013) Blair Jenkins, chief executive of the Yes Scotland campaign, today claimed that Scotland “might very well not have had a financial crisis” if it had been...

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Writing the wrongs of the financial crash

By Ian Fraser Published: Sunday Herald Date: August 25th, 2013 FOUR decades of laissez-faire policies have left Britain as a deeply indebted and uncompetitive economy that is unable to pay its way in...

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Chuka Umunna: PWC’s useful idiot?

January 23rd, 2014 I’ve long wondered how committed the Labour shadow business secretary and MP for Streatham Chuka Umunna really is to UK banking reform. It seems the answer is “not very”. In the...

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On the trail of Fred the Shred

By Ian Fraser Published: Sunday Herald Date: 8 June 2014 Ian Fraser’s new book, Shredded – Inside RBS: the Bank that Broke Britain, has been acclaimed as the definitive account of the crisis. Here he...

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The dukes and earls in America’s great tower of bullshit start to blink

By Ian Fraser Published: QFINANCE Date: 20 October 2011 There may be a few Maoists, Trotskyists, Anarcho-Syndicalists and even the odd deluded benefit scrounger in their midst, but it is simply wrong...

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Andy Haldane’s proposals for breaking the bankers’ doom loop

By Ian Fraser Published: QFINANCE Date: 25 October 2011 For a central bank director, Andy Haldane is remarkably alert to the widening cracks in the global financial system. Delivering the Wincott...

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Hester’s obscene pay is a symptom of a diseased banking sector

By Ian Fraser Published: QFINANCE Date: 27 January  2012 The board of Royal Bank of Scotland and its remuneration committee, led by the ex-Coca Cola executive Penny Hughes but also comprising...

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Rowan Bosworth-Davies | Has the UK rediscovered its appetite for prosecuting...

16 March 2012 In the second in a series of guest posts, Rowan Bosworth-Davies, a financial crime consultant and former Scotland Yard detective, provides a historical perspective on the UK authorities’...

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John Kay on the illusory nature of bank profits

16 April 2012 In this speech the economist and author John Kay examined how the financial sector continues to make — or claims to make — returns-on-equity which are way in excess of any reasonable...

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