Yesterday I called a friend. Before she picked up the phone it launched into a recorded message: "I'm currently really busy washing my hair. I'd kind of like to speak to you at some point today but not right now... more
The IMF, it seems, is the place to be if you want to get your leg over. Dominique Strauss-Kahn appears to have slept with, or tried to sleep with, every woman under the age of 70 at the organisation. Now we hear Turkish potential replacement Kemal Dervis is also a player...... more
Banks are accused of hiking interest rates and fees on credit cards and personal loans to make up for their huge compensation bills on payment protection insurance... more
Independent Banking Commission says debate over industry's future centres on whether to break up banks between retail and investment operations... more
Comment: Now Tower 42 — the tallest fully occupied office block in the City — is on the market, it is time to reflect on just how unsuccessful a venture it has been... more
The Royal Bank of Scotland may have made the headlines for all the wrong reasons but that has done little damage to its high street and retail franchises such as NatWest and Churchill Insurance... more
Analysis: Clunkingly and inept behaviour of high street banks gives the supermarkets confidence that they can make serious in-roads into the financial oligarchy that has dominated banking for decades... more
It's been almost a year since Japan’s Nomura acquired Lehman’s international operations, and apparently the remaining workers from Team Dick Fuld are finding it tough to fit in. An early problem came about when the Japanese broker kicked off a training session for new recruits by separating the men and women
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What do government ministers do with their time? It's a moot question, given the state the country is in, but some clue comes from the exchange of emails between the recently departed communications minister Lord Carter and his former employer, Brunswick ... more
High street banks have failed to back thousands of London businesses in the recession despite receiving billions of pounds of taxpayer help, an Evening Standard survey has found... more
Embattled City Minister Paul Myners was plunged into a fresh row as it emerged that he had a £4million pension with links to Royal Bank of Scotland... more
Finance: Pressure mounting on Royal Bank of Scotland's competitors to follow its pledge to give homeowners at least six months' grace on their mortgage payments before it starts repossession action... more
Fraud: The first of the so-called NatWest Three bankers jailed in the United States for their role in the Enron fraud has returned to Britain to complete his 37-month sentence... more
The reddest face in Edinburgh belongs to Archie Hunter, a 64-year-old former president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland - and chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland's audit committee.... more
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