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'Lehman Sisters' would crash too, says top adviser

03.11.09
Gordon Brown's independent adviser on the City today rejected Harriet Harman's claim that the financial crisis would not have happened if women had been in charge of banks.... more

Whitehall cuts are so bad for adland

06.10.09
Nervousness in adland as agencies digest the thought that the next government will cut its huge advertising budget ... more

Steward’s call for inquiry is a pure confection

06.10.09
Comedy lawsuit of the week comes from something called the Steward International Enhanced Index Fund, which is suing Cadbury’s top brass for daring not to embrace a (putative) bid from Kraft Foods ... more

Applegarth returns as an adviser on duff loans

01.10.09
Adam Applegarth, the former chief executive of nationalised bank Northern Rock, has re-emerged with his first new role in the City ... more

Blunt truth is pointy-heads aren’t so clever after all

29.09.09
Enron, America’s most famous bankruptcy saga, wasn’t just a tale of greed, money, sex and electricity deregulation, though it was all of those things... more

Pay bonuses in shares to keep bankers onside

21.08.09
Would Sir Fred Goodwin have committed so much RBS money if it had been his own cash he was spending?... more

Baroness Scotland changes her tune...

05.08.09
Raised eyebrows in the Treasury at the interview with Baroness Scotland, the attorney-general, in the Financial Times. She is keen to get across just how determined she is to crack down on financial crime ... ... more

The lunatic lending that landed bank in this mess

04.08.09
When Northern Rock crashed, some commentators tried to say: "I told you so." They claimed they predicted the Newcastle-based bank would hit trouble and might ultimately fail... more

Northern Rock borrowers cost bank £725m as prices collapse

04.08.09
Full extent of Britain's sub-prime mortgage crisis was shown as Northern Rock announced losses of almost £725million... more

Squeezing Majestic through the High Street bottleneck

16.06.09
How does the chief executive of Majestic Wine keep up the price of the booze he is selling when supermarkets are full of three-bottles-for-£10 offers?... more

Joe Lewis intrigue over Alphameric

18.05.09
What is the canny but reclusive investor, Joe Lewis, up to in the racing world? ... more

The cat sat on the Bat, but stock tipping is for experts

12.05.09
Who is better at picking shares in the midst of a major recession — a highly trained, media-friendly stockbroker, or the office cat? ... more

A frantic chase that led everyone astray

20.04.09
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Intrigue and plotting over future of Sibir

09.04.09
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The bruiser handing out a battering to our greedy bank bosses

04.03.09
Treasury Select Committee chair John McFall is shrugging off the snipers as he earns his spurs tearing into those behind the financial crisis... more

'Pride' over Northern Rock sparks takeover talk

17.02.09
Labour declared it was "proud" that it nationalised Northern Rock - fuelling speculation that another bank could be taken into public ownership... more

How Gordon can pour oil on troubled waters

29.10.08
Gordon Brown is banging on again about high petrol prices and oil companies making too much money. At the moment it’s BP, next it will be Shell. But who is really making the killing at the pumps? Yes, you guessed it, the PM and his Chancellor Alistair Darling... more

Forget recession – metal boys are still in party mode

16.10.08
Shocking times for commodities prices, no doubt. But that didn’t stop the metal traders at the LME annual Grosvenor House dinner splashing out on strippers and champers... more

Northern Rock chiefs to escape court action

14.10.08
Banking: Adam Applegarth, former chief executive of failed bank Northern Rock, and his co-directors will not be taken to court over their management failings... more

Commentary: Bank bosses blinded by arrogance

13.10.08
Finally, a significant head has rolled from the top of a major British bank. One of the most shameful aspects of this process has been the refusal of those who run our banks to accept any culpability. Their sneering superiority has seen them cling to their multi-million-pound packages and heavily-funded lifestyles in the face of growing evidence that they were to blame. ... more

The revenge of the nerds

18.09.08
As the PM steps in to ensure the survival of HBOS, our City editor tells the story of the people at the heart of this great drama... more

Out to lunch at Lehman before the fortress fell

15.09.08
One of the best lunches I’ve ever had ­— in a career of many lunches — was at Lehman Brothers... more

A year after Rock’s collapse, the verdict on key players

11.09.08
Analysis: A year ago, BBC News dropped a bombshell the City will never forget. Northern Rock, one of the country's biggest mortgage lenders, had run out of cash and was going cap in hand to the Bank of England for emergency funding... more

Applegarth has some more explaining to do

22.07.08
Simon English discusses the book The Fall of Northern Rock, George Soros's latest bets, the price of oil, and the Carter administration... more

Always a sinking feeling over societies that floated

03.06.08
Simon English says we should cherish the Nationwide, hate all banks, and beware the nappy/beer formula... more

It's Executive Monopoly - pass Go and collect

03.04.08
Reward for recklessness: Adam Applegarth got £760,000 while the returns to Northern Rock shareholders fell away to nothing ... more

A foreigner flies the flag for UK

27.03.08
The generosity of non-doms in our midst generally puts the locals to shame... more

Sorry, Sir, there's a moral here for banks

25.03.08
Sir Peter Burt, one of Britain's most respected bankers in the period when he ran Bank of Scotland until it merged with Halifax seven years ago, has come out with an interesting take on moral hazard... more

Sorry, Sir, there's a moral here for banks

25.03.08
How can the banks that did avoid the pitfalls reap the benefits of their good judgment if all the others are saved from the consequences of their mistakes?... more

Someone will have to sweep up this rubbish

13.03.08
If Cheltenham races can be blown off course, then what chance has the Chancellor? The tax rates and spending plans were set a year ago by the man sitting next to him, and all he could do yesterday was to catch the flak. ... more

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