Things we're reading today include … Barclays annual profits fall 21% Barclays boss takes bonus despite £1.2bn fine Barclays' 30-year attempt at taking on Wall Street is coming to an end RBS cutting up to 14,000 investment banking jobs by 2019 Banks' PPI bill now totals £24.4bn Rothschild did employ banker who squandered von Schonau…
Things we're reading today include … Growing number of Britons switching bank accounts Big US banks batten down as tighter regulation looms Foreign Banks Brace for Fed Stress Tests Standard Chartered to shrink bonus pool by 9 percent: Sky News UK bank bosses more bullish on bonuses Co-op Bank executive leaves in latest high-profile exit…
Things we're reading today include … Data thieves raid TalkTalk customers' bank accounts The right balance of banking regulation is still a way off Lloyds has been let off too lightly, but would Labour really rein in the bank? Lloyds v RBS – two banks with different problems and very different results Barclays boss to…
Things we're reading today include … RBS reports £3.5bn loss for 2014 RBS breaks with past by tearing investment bank apart RBS posts seventh straight annual loss as it plans more job cuts Deutsche co-CEO faces trial for providing false testimony: Spiegel James Moore: TSB is getting twitchy over switching Slowing charge How Sands fell…
Things we're reading today include … James Moore: The US Department of Justice is gunning for HSBC. Why aren't we? RBS reports £3.5bn loss as boss forgoes £1m share allowance Barings' collapse was the start of the City's cultural decline Watch: HSBC boss Stuart Gulliver apologises to MPs over Swiss bank claims Morgan Stanley made…
Things we're reading today include … The card aiming to end Nigerian fraud Swiss market regulator says unlikely to probe HSBC further Lending Club dips 11% on full-year loss Wonga to cut third of workforce Aldermore makes fresh run at IPO JPMorgan to charge fees for big deposits HSBC boss Stuart Gulliver summoned to face…
Things we're reading today include … Treasury makes £500m selling Lloyds shares as it reduces its stake in the bank RBS will reportedly appoint Howard Davies as its next chairman PPI mis-selling cases 'more complex' U.S. investigating big banks on possible precious-metal price rigging: WSJ 'Computer says no' hurts vulnerable Timeline: bankruptcies and bail-outs since…
Things we're reading today include … Lloyds looks to pay first dividend since 2008 bail-out Looming Bank Rules Haunt Insurers Banks' bonuses paid out since the start of the crisis likely to break £100bn barrier as bosses are in line for £5bn windfall Rothschild investment bank 'may pay staff bonuses early this year to avoid…
Our biggest stories of the past week are … Can you have decentralised exchange without centralised control? I often have these debates with the bitcoin community about whether you can really have money without government. Let’s not call it money without government even, let’s just focus upon the question of whether you can have value…
