I have just spent over two hours watching  Margaret Hodge and  the Public Accounts Committee questioning Stuart Gulliver, Chris Meares and Rona Fairhead of HSBC.
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Jolyon Maugham has put forward an interesting argument on his blog. He has argued that the Coalition government’s plan to restrict the use of losses
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If evidence is needed that we continue to be governed by cowardly politicians of the sort that I described in The Courageous State then George
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As the FT notes this morning: HSBC’s chief executive has complained that bankers are being held to a higher standard than bishops as the UK
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This came from the HSBC Chairman’s statement this morning: The recent disclosures around unacceptable historical practices and behaviour within the Swiss private bank remind us
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As the FT notes this morning: UK regulators will include banks’ and insurers’ senior non-executives alongside chairmen in a tough new personal liability regime to
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I am not sure it is a universal truth that if you believe in what your company does then you should use its products. But
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I was asked yesterday how we could beat tax evasion in the UK. This line of questioning usually starts with the person asking (often, as
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The Swiss are to investigate HSBC.