Labour seeks to amend Banking Bill to introduce new criminal offence of “reckless misconduct in banking”
Labour has tabled a series of amendments to the Banking Bill – including on deferring bonuses and a new…
Banking
We must champion the decline of the investment bank
In Germany, banking is harnessed and put to work pulling the community forward instead of taking it for…
Modern football, like banking, has rotten values
I trace what became my own galloping disinterest in football to a conversation with a mate of mine…
The case for licensing bankers
If an incompetent doctor puts at risk the wellbeing of a patient, they could be struck off. If…
I’m sick of the North being the poor relation – it needs a private sector recovery
Do you know which regions of the UK have grown most over the past decade? It’s London and…
A Diverse Banking System
Ever since the failure of Northern Rock in 2007, it has been clear that the UK’s banking system…
Blame The Bankers Ed – the public already do…
There has been a clamour in the Labour Party over the last couple of years for Labour to…
British banks are still too big to fail
This week could see Ed Miliband’s first big test on banking reform. The parliamentary commission into banking standards…
Britain needs a state investment bank
Nick Tott was right when he said in a report for the Labour Party earlier this year that…
Market abuse should lead to jail
This week in the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee Euro MPs backed by a massive majority my…
