As Owen Tudor has noted on the TUC blog: Yesterday the IMF finally released its study on the financial transactions tax. The paper, a draft
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The FT notes: HSBC has been ordered by US regulators to overhaul its internal controls in the US after a probe found the bank’s ineffective
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Despite at least £1.2 trillion of taxpayers’ money being put at risk to bail out the banking system, many of the major high street banks
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I’ve just blogged a letter sent to the FT by some of the leaders of the UK’s financial services industry in which they say: If
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Robert Peston has picked up on his blog the argument made by chartered accountant Tin Bush that International Financial Reporting Standards are illegal when applied
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The FT reports: The failure of Anglo Irish bank, the lender at the centre of the country’s financial crisis, would “bring down” Ireland, the country’s
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The BBC has reported: Hundreds of wealthy UK taxpayers have been sent letters by HM Revenue & Customs over possible large-scale tax evasion, the BBC
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The Guardian reports: The head of the Vatican bank has formally been placed under investigation in an inquiry into a suspected violation of Italy’s money-laundering
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From the FT: “Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.” Bank regulators seem to understand the sentiment of the youthful St Augustine. The post-crisis
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