The Barclays Bank fiasco, of it accepting an offer of funding from Middle East investors at an interest rate of 14%, at a tax cost
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People are asking me a simple question at the moment: why are we bailing out the banks when ti seems that the banks have done
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Memo To: Dave Hartnett, HMRC From: Richard Murphy, Tax Research LLP Date: 8 October 2008 Subject: Bank equity and structured finance Dear Dave I’ll trust
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Tomorrow morning it seems likely that £50 billion will be injected into the banking system. Tonight the market capitalisation of RBS is £14.9 billion. Barclays
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Most depressing news of the weekend: Barclays has pledged to pay $2.5 billion in bonuses and salaries to Lehman staff in New York, whose collapse
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I have been involved in a discussion on the IsThisJersey web site, where my blog entitled ‘2007 – a year in retrospect’ was reproduced. As
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Two people claiming to be Channel Island’s financial services operators have been making extensive comments on two blogs on this site. Despite the claims of
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Sir Mike Rake has been appointed a board director at Barclays. They suit each other: he headed a firm heavily tainted by offshore and scandal.
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Barclays ‘Head of Wealth Operations’ has been writing to his customers…. To tell them that running an offshore bank account may not always have been
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