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Insider takes the chair at Standard Chartered

02.07.09
The son of a coalminer has been confirmed as the new chairman of emerging-markets bank Standard Chartered ... more

Real dust-up on the cards as banks bailout saga plays out

02.07.09
Once again, this Government has created a beast it cannot control. When Lloyds TSB, HBOS and Royal Bank of Scotland turned to the Treasury for their combined £37 billion bailout last year, wiser voices than mine argued for full rather than part privatisation ... more

Stroppy shareholders are making the hot seat just too uncomfortable

25.06.09
BP may finally have got its man, but a number of other companies remain chairmanless amid fears that the role at some of Britain's biggest companies may have become just too unpalatable.... more

Great companies should train their own for the top

22.06.09
In what was a typical weekend, the three main stories in one Sunday newspaper were about the succession in some of our best-known companies... more

Sir Fred Goodwin to hand back £4m of pension pot

18.06.09
Disgraced banking boss and former RBS chief Sir Fred Goodwin - known as Fred the Shred - agrees to hand back around £4million of his pension pot so he can get another job... more

Sainsbury’s chief turns ‘cook for a fiver’ into £5 million bonus

13.05.09
Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King is in line for a £5 million bonus this year after promising to feed customers for a fiver ... more

Ask that woman to the corporate party

06.05.09
One of the more fashionable theories about the credit crunch is that it wouldn't have happened if women had been in charge... more

Footsie grandees aim for more women on the board

05.05.09
Sir Philip Hampton of Sainsbury’s, Sir John Bond of Vodafone and Roger Carr of Centrica are just three of the high-profile chairmen gathering at an event in the City to put wannabe female board directors through their paces ... more

Judge and jury take on the political establishment

20.04.09
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Let’s see how many days these superchairs clock up

09.04.09
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Pay bonanza of the City's part-time string-pullers

07.04.09
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Sainsbury's fears as Hampton looks to quit to focus on RBS

06.04.09
Sainsbury's chairman Sir Philip Hampton has told the supermarkets chain he has to quit in order to devote more time to cleaning up Royal Bank of Scotland... more

Time to stop this public flogging - RBS chief

03.04.09
Sir Philip Hampton, the new chairman of nationalised RBS, has blamed former chief executive Sir Fred Goodwin for the bank's disastrous performance and Government bailout... more

Fred tells RBS: I will not shred my pension

03.04.09
Sir Fred Goodwin, the ousted chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, will not take a cut in his £703,000-a-year pension... more

Why Finsbury was a shoo-in for the RBS job

25.03.09
Congratulations to Finsbury on winning the Royal Bank of Scotland PR account. A clue as to where the plum contract might be heading came when Finsbury didn't repitch for the Lloyds Banking Group business.... more

Why can't big shareholders join Goodwin in the stocks?

09.03.09
Sir Fred Goodwin, a friend of the ex-Royal Bank of Scotland chief said to me at the end of last week, is keeping his head down, thinking about what to do with the rest of his life... more

Beyond all this red ink may lie a new dawn

26.02.09
Commentary: Is this enough? That is the £24 billion question facing RBS investors as they survey the wreckage of what they can only pray was their only annus horribilis... more

New RBS boss fires a boardroom clear-out

06.02.09
Sir Philip Hampton marked his arrival as the new chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland with a massive clearout of many of the longest-standing members of the board... more

Linklaters and Clifford Chance in double cuts

06.02.09
Further proof that even the mighty "Magic Circle" City law firms are not immune. No sooner does Linklaters announce cuts than arch-rival Clifford Chance reveals it too is taking a long, hard look at its partners... more

Chairman makes an early exit after disaster at RBS

03.02.09
Banking: Shamed banker Sir Tom McKillop has finally quit as chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland — almost three months earlier than expected... more

‘RBS behaved badly but I can pull it through’

21.01.09
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Games on for King’s critics at Sainsbury’s

20.01.09
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Games on for King’s critics at Sainsbury’s

20.01.09
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As banks unveil yet more losses, the fear is worst may not be over

16.01.09
Analysis: These are anxious times for the team recruited to Government by Gordon Brown to, in his own words, “save the banks”... more

No taxpayers' representatives on banks' boards

14.11.08
The taxpayer will not have representatives directly on the boards of banks getting £37 billion of public funds, it emerged... more

Barclays' £7bn Mid-East bailout to get go-ahead

14.11.08
Barclays' £7 billion bailout, mainly from Middle Eastern investors, looks increasingly likely to go ahead even as the bank's existing shareholders vent their frustration at the terms of the deal... more

Darling under fire as he unveils new bail-out agency

03.11.08
Chancellor Alistair Darling came under fire for his handling of the financial crisis as he unveiled a government-owned company to oversee the £37billion bank bail-out plan... more

Top two at RBS are facing new calls to head for the exit

08.10.08
Credit crunch: Sir Fred Goodwin, chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, and his chairman Sir Tom McKillop were once again under pressure to quit after today's £500 billion banks bailout... more

City bosses call for UK to back Lisbon Treaty

18.06.08
Grandees said treaty was "a positive step for business and for Britain" ahead of a House of Lords debate... more

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