Articles...
Aug 6 2008
The Royal Bank of Scotland raised £12 billion, Barclays £4.5 billion, HBOS £4 billion, even poor tattered Bradford & Bingley scraped home with its fund-raising in the end....
Jul 24 2008
Charles Cattaneo, partner at Grant Thornton in Birmingham, says that trading conditions are going to be demanding for those involved in the financial markets. ...
Apr 2 2008
Don't buy bank shares till they sack the bankers. It is a sound adage that has worked in the past....
Mar 27 2008
Two cheers for the Financial Services Authority for coming clean - well, cleaner than Government departments or listed companies come, even if it stopped short of letting an independent auditor take a look at what it had failed to do at Northern Rock....
Mar 26 2008
The Financial Services Authority admitted today that there was a lack of sufficient supervision over Northern Rock....
Feb 13 2008
Last week National Statistics demonstrated its independence by allocating the Government's £50billion of cash and guarantees staked on Northern Rock to public sector borrowing - what used to be called the national debt....
Feb 11 2008
I wish I could find it my heart to feel sorry for Alistair Darling, but I cannot....
Feb 8 2008
Thirty-two tax-guessing days to Budget Day and the Office of National Statistics made nonsense of whatever sums Chancellor Alistair Darling was doing for his big day....
Feb 7 2008
Set against £26 billion hard cash handed over to stop the run on Northern Rock, £1.7 billion for the creditors of Metronet may seem small beer....
