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Tory MEP and the Kazakhs

01.10.09
What a strange contradiction Tory MEP Struan Stevenson is. On the one hand he has visited Kazakhstan on no fewer than 10 separate occasions to investigate the effects of Soviet-era nuclear explosions on the inhabitants there... ... more

Ericsson boss Svanberg is BP's choice for chairman

25.06.09
BP's three-year search for a new chairman came to an end as the British oil giant appointed the Swedish boss of Ericsson, Carl-Henric Svanberg... more

A new name in the frame as BP struggles to fill the top job

15.06.09
Investors might begin to wonder whether it has become the most poisoned chalice in British business: the chairmanship of BP, the job that apparently nobody wants... more

This cars idea might be fit for the scrap heap

24.04.09
Just how brilliant is the car “scrappage” scheme in the Budget? It’s designed to stimulate the car industry but only £1000 of the £2000 paid to the owner of an old banger trading it in against a brand-new model, comes from the taxpayer; the rest is provided by the car industry... more

BP’s chief refuses to say sorry for his role in RBS failure

16.04.09
BP chairman Peter Sutherland was enmired in controversy at his last annual meeting of the oil major as he refused to apologise for his role in the boardroom failure at Royal Bank of Scotland, where he was also a director... more

Let’s see how many days these superchairs clock up

09.04.09
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Union fury as RBS axes 9000 more jobs

07.04.09
Royal Bank of Scotland today axed another 9000 jobs, taking the total number of posts axed so far this year to almost 12,000. Half of the cuts will be in the UK... more

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

07.04.09
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Former RBS head McKillop to step down from BP board

01.04.09
Sir Tom McKillop has quit his £95,000 job working a handful of days a year as a non-executive director at BP... more

Goldman Sachs bosses feel the pain as earnings plunge

27.03.09
The top director at Goldman Sachs International in London earned just $1.9 million last year, down more than 90% from $23.4 million in 2007, annual accounts obtained by the Evening Standard showed... more

BP chief on £2.5m despite job cuts

05.03.09
BP chief executive Tony Hayward's pay rose by 16.5% to £2.5 million last year, during which he ordered thousands of redundancies at the oil giant... more

How safe is the BP dividend?

26.02.09
Energy analysis: Earlier this month, one excited City analyst was moved to confirm there is now a trinity of certainties in life: in addition to death and taxes, the oil-watcher argued, you can also rely on BP dividends... more

Danger that lurks in the turnaround plan for RBS

23.02.09
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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

Craven gives the Panel a well-deserved beating

05.02.09
Sir John Craven is the man who capped a long, distinguished City career by taking on the poisoned chalice marked Lonrho, drinking the contents — and surviving... more

The banks are just a joke – nationalising is only answer

20.01.09
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With the Rio wedding off, BP is free to hire its new chairman

26.11.08
Profile: After four decades at Shell, Paul Skinner swapped refining for mining. Now his sharp brain and calmness under fire could put him right at the top of the oil business... more

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08.10.08
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Kremlin’s denial of BP meddling stuns West

06.10.08
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sparked fury when he claimed the Kremlin had not meddled in the acrimonious TNK-BP dispute... more

And this year’s winners are ... the liquidators

17.09.08
WITH administrators and liquidators picking over corporate carcasses around the country and consigning thousands to the dole queue, step forward the annual Insolvency and Rescue Awards... more

A retreat from Moscow that may not ease the problems

04.09.08
When crude was hitting its record highs of more than $147 a barrel in early July, BP’s shares were in sharp decline, a fall that has been extended in recent weeks to wipe around £30 billion off the value of Britain’s largest company... more

BP could be in for a rough ride with Todd

04.09.08
Initial excitement at BP’s St James’s headquarters over the Republican Party’s choice of Presidential running mate has quickly subsided... more

BP Russia chief to go in bid to settle row

04.09.08
Energy: An end could be in sight to the fractious and potentially highly damaging dispute over BP’s huge interests in Russia — but at the cost of the departure of the chief executive at its Russian joint venture... more

Oligarchs seek a BP stake swap to settle Russian row

16.06.08
Amid allegations of Kremlin-inspired spying and attempted land grabs, the future of TNK-BP is in the balance... more

BP chief slams Russia raiders

12.06.08
BP chairman has accused the group's partners in Moscow of 1990's-style raiding tactics... more

Talks break down over BP's Russian joint venture

11.06.08
BP accused partners - a group of Russian billionaires - of attempting to stage boardroom coup ... more

I've had it with banks that carry on bungling

02.06.08
This week sees a defining moment for the City. We will know whether Royal Bank of Scotland management has persuaded shareholders to forgive their foolish ways.... more

Chairmen's pay on rocket fuel - and not just at BP

15.04.08
Fat-cat pay, or executive remuneration as they call it in the posher papers, is so last century... more

£12m for Goldman's top banker in the UK

31.03.08
Goldman Sachs' top banker in London collects a bumper £12m pay package... more

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