As the Guardian has reported this morning: The cost to UK banks of providing redress for mis-selling mounted on Tuesday, when Barclays set aside another £1bn to compensate its
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Hartnett’s back – at HSBC
Sky has just reported: HSBC is to recruit a line-up of heavyweight figures including Britain’s former top taxman to oversee a new effort to combat
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What planet are KPMG on when it comes to fraud? Could it be the one the Big 4 don’t audit?
I am not sure what planet KPMG are on. The FT report this morning that: The total value of large frauds reported by UK corporates
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The time to end tax haven secrecy is now
The Guardian has reported this morning that: Britain’s most successful serial confidence trickster, Achilleas Kallakis, faces up to 10 years in jail after being found
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It’s time for Cameron to take on the UK’s tax havens but will he when that’s where his father made his wealth?
I’ve just noticed yesterday’s editorial in the Independent. Building on David Cameron’s comments on tax avoidance and the successful proseuction of a Swiss bank for
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We now know the banks were corrupt. Why not say the same of their tax haven activities?
The FT notes on the record breaking UBS fine for LIBOR rigging: The penalty may prove to be the biggest fine levied on banks that
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It’s time for bankers to go to jail. Appeasement has to be over.
The following is a press release from Global Witness, but as I agree with it, and have worked with Global Witness on many issues, I
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Why do we treat top bankers as useful members of society?
From the FT’s email alerts this morning: HSBC is expected to pay $1.9bn and enter a deferred-prosecution agreement to settle accusations it allowed itself to
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Are there any corporate good guys? Rolls Royce is beginning to look tarnished
As Nils Pratley says in the Guardian this morning: It’s becoming increasingly hard to spot the corporate good guys. Rolls-Royce, the company that gets more
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