Davos is over for another year, thank God. For the next 12 months we will be spared business leaders telling us how they intend to make the world a better place... more
Anyone wading through the thousands of pages of submissions to Sir John Vickers' Commission on Banking will appreciate this "glossary of terms" floating around the City... more
EXCLUSIVE: Revival of the enterprise zones championed by Margaret Thatcher is being drawn up for a 'Budget for growth' in March, the Standard has learned... more
Communists say they planted a bomb at a hotel where they claimed senior bankers and politicians were staying for the World Economic Forum in Davos... more
Banks risk posing a "serious threat" to the real economy by shrinking credit to meet tougher capital requirements, senior Morgan Stanley banker warns the Davos summit... more
It's that time of year when many of the world's senior business folk, political leaders and attendant PR advisers and journalists decamp to the Alpine retreat... more
While Alan Johnson wanted the 50% top rate of tax to be regarded as temporary, his successor as shadow chancellor Ed Balls favours keeping it and seeing it kick in at a lower threshold than the present £150,000... more
City Comment: It's inexplicable: although banking claims to employ the cleverest people in the world and pays them accordingly, at no point have its leaders taken any responsibility for reform... more
City Comment: It was Manchester United versus Arsenal in 1999 that Sky used to launch “pressing the red button”. By the end of this decade we'll all be watching in 3D. ... more
Bankers stand shoulder-to-shoulder at the World Economic Forum in Davos to try to prevent a scatter-gun approach to new financial regulation by different countries... more
So Labour is to put up candidates for the City of London Corporation elections. Labour says it wants to "highlight what is wrong with the established governance of the City of London, and how its largely unaccountable leaders have brought Britain to recession"... more
Economics: As the world’s richest and most powerful executives fly out to the luxury Alpine resort of Davos, the hotels and restaurants hosting their glittering parties and dinners are braced for chill economic winds... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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