The FT’s noted: Europe’s biggest banks will have to cut €661bn of assets and generate €47bn of fresh capital over the next five years to
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Buy-to-let property ownership is rising, most of it fuelled by cheap loans. According to HMRC this is a major area of tax fraud. Large numbers
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As the Guardian has noted this morning: Britain’s buy-to-let mortgage market has surged to levels not seen since the 2008 financial crash, prompting fears that
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I’ve been on both Sky and BBC Scotland this morning talking about the fact that HM Revenue and Customs has today again published the names and photographs of
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Mark Carney has said the Bank of England will not raise interest rates until unemployment falls to 7% of the available workforce, with some important
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I have reported, often, on Barclays shooting itself in the foot on this blog. I suspect I will do so again before too long. Bt
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I got one of the annoying mails from Amazon this morning that they persist in sending. As I was about to delete it I noted
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As the Guardian has put it this morning: The UK economy will need to generate around 750,000 more jobs before the Bank of England considers lifting interest rates from their
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This is what Mark Carney had to say on the UK economy this morning to the BBC's Hugh Pym: This is the weakest economy on
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