The FT has reported this morning that: HSBC’s private bank will pay $192m in penalties and admit to helping US customers hide more than $1bn
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Deutsche Bank is currently shedding 18,000 of its staff, most of whom have been involved in its financial trading activities.  That is about one in five
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I have been desisting from commenting on Facebook’s proposed new currency, which they call Libra. There has been good reason. I wanted to know more;
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The FT has reported that Lloyds Bank has been forced to freeze 8,000 accounts held with it in Jersey because the owners of those accounts
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A regular commentator on this blog sent me a mail saying this yesterday: I came across this article today. https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2019-05-07/how-major-banks-turned-a-blind-eye-to-the-theft-of-billions-of-pounds-of-public-money I did know about it, having
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The FT has noted this morning just how out of line US banks are on fossil fuel investment when compared with other banks and the
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Mastercard and Visa extract massive rents from our economies – for the benefit of the banks that own them. Some will have seen that a
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Ask yourself a question. You open a bank in a country known to be attracting money launderers. Call it Estonia. You choose not to put
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According to the FT: The typical qualifications of a private banker might be a degree in maths or economics and several years’ experience managing money.
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