This phrase was all the rage 10 years ago. The banks had lent money that the borrowers could not pay back, if they foreclosed on all the b...

Quite interesting , and I dare say, courageous, for the CEO of RBS to come out today and complain about his own customers. I may be being ...

As we tremble in our boots at the prospect of all those City firms upping and offing, the runners and riders for the Wannabe European 'C...

The Met Police commissioner, a man whose stock is falling like a mining share on the FTSE, has mused that Banks should stop paying out peopl...

Enough of the international scene: back to business.  The Tesco crisis seems to have come to a head - well, the head has been chopped off,...

In the 'Great Harrumph' that our politicians so enjoy about Banking - with the the Left wing ones desperate to blame banks rather ...

Politics and Banking have has an interesting relationship this past 5 years or so. What with the small matter of the Financial Crisis and...

As many regular readers will know I have a fairly bi-polar view of the economy. On the one hand doomsayers predicting the end is nigh are ...

6 years from the implementation of the Vickers report and its failings are already clear to see. RBS is about to get a huge fine for Libor...

It is not being seen like this, but I do think there is a big crisis in Banking reform in the UK in particular, as well as EU and the Worl...

The day after the Banking Commission interim report and Lloyds bank have reacted angrily to the recommendations to make them sell more than ...

First off the blocks, just like last year, is Standard Chartered. A mere £3.5 billion capital raise to ostensibly help it prepare for Basle ...

The elevation of Bob Diamond to CEO at Barclays is strongly reminiscent of my old mucker Jeff Skilling's rise to the top at Enron. Skil...

Here is a link to the latest news re the Lehman's CDS close today. Perhaps after all there is to be no explosion? I did see this as wel...

Not often we beat the BBC and UK media to a story... This is THE news of the week, year, maybe even decade. A solution to the credit crisis...

There are many rumours out there today and they are interesting, but like speculating on Fabio Capello's team selection. However if HSB...

The title is the summary of the treasury report into the housing marke t today. James Crosby, ex-CEO of HBOS (presumably owner of lots of sh...