BBC News – Darling ‘must cut £36bn’, IFS think tank says. The sort of right wing drivel that the BBC now loves to put out
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The Treasury has published its review on the need for a Financial Transaction Tax. This is my take on the forty page document.

Swissinfo report: The private banking arm of British bank HSBC in Geneva has filed a criminal complaint against a former employee who allegedly stole client
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Haddrill: we don’t need a Big Five – Accountancy Age. Stephen Hadrill is the new head of the UK’s Financial Reporting Council. Accountancy Age have
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Risk, reward and responsibility: the financial sector and society – HM Treasury . On 10 December 2009 the Treasury published a discussion document on possible
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FT.com / UK / Politics & policy – ‘What banker wants to be in the UK?’. The FT notes: Bankers were fuming. One investment banking
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FT.com / Europe – France to impose bank bonus supertax . Just announced: President Nicolas Sarkozy is to follow Britain and impose a one-off supertax
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FT.com / UK – Top bankers’ bonus rate to top 100% . It was clearly silly season for accountant’s yesterday. Take this: John Whiting, policy
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FT.com / Personal Finance – IHT avoidance schemes face scrutiny. As the FT notes: As part of the new measures to clamp down on tax
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