http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-35408-john-mcfall/topic-rss.do John McFall RSS feed http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23755882-mps-call-for-retail-banks-to-split-from-casinos.do Leading MPs called on the Government to force investment banks to be split from retail banks in its forthcoming legislation on banking regulation 2009-10-13T11:36:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23723233-parliament-to-investigate-sexism-and-glass-ceilings-in-square-mile.do 2009-07-23T08:38:01Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23693698-joe-lewis-intrigue-over-alphameric.do What is the canny but reclusive investor, Joe Lewis, up to in the racing world? 2009-05-18T07:31:27Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23693636-who-are-mps-to-call-others-naive-they-havent-a-clue.do Please sir, in my next life can I be John McFall or, failing that, a member of his Treasury Select Committee? The reason I ask is that it must be great fun to sit in judgment on others, to not have a clue how their industry works or where they're coming from, and then to slag them off... 2009-05-18T07:21:04Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23692554-dont-be-too-harsh-on-us-say-bankers.do Bankers hit back at criticism from the Treasury Select Committee, claiming that new regulations on pay could damage the wider economy 2009-05-15T08:25:51Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23686303-labour-mps-rubbish-darlings-optimistic-recovery-forecasts.do Alistair Darling’s confident forecast of a return to economic growth next year was blasted as “optimistic” in a cross-party report 2009-05-06T13:11:38Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23684339-the-case-for-bringing-the-banking-big-shots-to-heel.do People who say the Treasury Select Committee report into the banking crisis tells us little we did not already know rather miss the point 2009-05-01T06:41:18Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23684444-end-of-a-bad-week-labour-mps-say-brown-is-doomed.do Gordon Brown took a fresh battering as Labour MPs said he was “doomed” and former cabinet minister Charles Clarke said he was ashamed to be in the party 2009-05-01T08:40:48Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23683349-when-myners-saw-mcfall-for-a-cosy-chat.do How intriguing. Just what were City minister Lord Myners and Commons Treasury Select Committee chairman John McFall talking about so animatedly the other night? 2009-04-30T07:38:24Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23672798-the-met-is-still-out-of-control---sort-it-boris.do In 25 years as a journalist, I have never come across a scandal like the Metropolitan Police losing £30 million of Londoners' money in the Icelandic banking collapse 2009-04-07T08:14:08Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23672082-yard-lost-30m-after-warning-to-pull-out-of-icelandic-bank.do Scotland Yard lost £30million by investing in a flawed Icelandic bank weeks after its financial adviser urged it to pull out 2009-04-06T08:51:48Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23664683-knives-out-for-sir-victor-at-dons-high-table.do No one seems to have a good word for Sir Victor Blank, chairman of Lloyds, who happily signed up to the merger of HBOS without, as his chief executive admits, doing anywhere near enough due diligence 2009-03-20T09:35:04Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23657063-the-bruiser-handing-out-a-battering-to-our-greedy-bank-bosses.do Treasury Select Committee chair John McFall is shrugging off the snipers as he earns his spurs tearing into those behind the financial crisis 2009-03-04T08:49:33Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23643336-an-evenings-whiff-whaff-with-a-charitable-banker.do 2009-02-16T08:38:27Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23640042-treasury-select-committee-mps-dont-have-a-clue.do The bankers have been given quite a kicking for their role in the financial crisis this week. But something else became all too clear in Westminster: almost no one on the Treasury Select Committee has a clue what they are doing. 2009-02-12T08:49:24Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23640220-bail-out-bankers-will-get-their-bonuses-after-all.do The Government has given up its bid to stop bailed-out Royal Bank of Scotland paying out bonuses to the dealers who brought it to its knees 2009-02-12T10:09:33Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23639098-lloyds-boss-wont-take-bonus.do Lloyds chief executive Eric Daniels said that he will not take a bonus for last year, a move that will pile pressure on senior staff at other banks to follow suit 2009-02-11T10:41:01Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23638351-fat-cats-play-victim-card-and-get-away-with-it.do The defining moment of this supposed public humiliation came early on. It was when the bank chiefs were asked about their remuneration, whether they thought their company's bonus policy had contributed to the subsequent disaster. 2009-02-10T14:40:20Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23635041-bailed-out-bankers-facing-curbs-on-fat-cat-bonuses.do Failing banks have been threatened with pay curbs if they award “exorbitant” bonuses and salaries 2009-02-05T09:37:50Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23625418-angry-mps-want-some-answers-at-city-grilling.do 2009-01-22T10:24:03Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23624267-barclays-shares-tumble-pressure-to-nationalise-lloyds-and-rbs-grows.do Shares in banking giant Barclays took a fresh pummelling as investors continued to fret over the outlook for the beleaguered industry 2009-01-21T09:43:29Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23613212-darling-we-are-far-from-through-this-recession.do Alistair Darling has admitted the recession is "far from through" and signalled dramatic new measures to promote recovery 2009-01-07T09:30:33Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23590642-warning-shot-fired-at-banks-refusing-to-lend.do Banks facing fury from ministers over their refusal to boost lending were warned to act before the “lid is blown off” 2008-11-21T09:04:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23590937-no10-refuses-to-rule-out-banks-takeover.do The Prime Minister dramatically upped the stakes in the battle to make banks boost lending by refusing to rule out full-scale nationalisation 2008-11-21T14:14:24Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23581297-bailout-agency-to-make-sure-banks-are-lending.do A new government agency to oversee the £37billion bank bailout was unveiled with a direct remit to get money flowing again to recession-hit businesses 2008-11-03T09:35:57Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23573824-bail-out-rules-to-be-eased.do Gordon Brown fuelled hopes the Government would ease the terms of its £37 billion bank rescue deal, saying he could relax rules on dividends 2008-10-16T08:22:07Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23572533-iceland-row-puts-rating-agencies-in-firing-line.do Pressure is mounting for an in-depth investigation into the big three credit rating agencies, which stand accused of missing banking problems ranging from Iceland to the US subprime mortgage crisis 2008-10-14T08:25:50Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23571213-villains-of-the-drama-await-punishment-or-reprieve.do 2008-10-10T12:52:50Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23496614-bank-left-reeling-as-deputy-quits.do The Bank of England was in turmoil after the resignation of Sir John Gieve, the deputy accused of neglecting his duties during the collapse of Northern Rock 2008-06-19T09:26:41Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23486429-avivas-5-billion-balancing-act.do This generation of policyholders will get a significant windfall simply by being in the right place at the right time 2008-05-21T14:19:53Z