Pragmatist

At least 17 years too late, the Bank for International Settlements (the central bank for central banks) has become very concerned about t...

Readers will recall that UK retail banks are self-regulated when it comes to overdrafts. They lost control of deposits, savings and pay...

One of the 'good news' items in last year's Autumn Statement was the endorsement of an Open Data Institute report on how i...

If UK banks ran our restaurants, we'd all be spending a lot more time in our smallest rooms. In the latest example, the Financial...

I'm a great fan of trade bodies that introduce necessary self-regulation and create an efficient bridge between industry and official...

Yesterday I was engaged in a discussion about 'virtuous banking' which seemed to stick on the definition of 'banks' and ...

I just don't get it. The UK is awash with debt it can't shift, yet the UK government thinks it's a great idea to ensure that ...

What a difference a year makes. At an industry event yesterday none other than Nicola Horlick , a well-known fund manager, confirmed her...

Ominous bursts of smoke have been rising from Gillian Tett recently.  On September 12, the lady who gave us Fool's Gold pointed...

Oh those poor, poor bankers. Now, we're told by Spear's , that the new 'retail distribution' rules have made their lives ...

Ross McEwan's appointment as CEO of RBS roundly endorsed his remark that he has been "quite surprised by how bad this industry ...

It's been a difficult month to finish this post. Every day another dollop of decrepitude is revealed amongst our rotting institutio...

You have to wonder whether the UK's banking crisis will ever end. After months of wrangling, the regulators have finally decided whi...

Source: Guardian/Observer The spin doctors are feverishly applying lipstick to RBS, so it can be 're-privatised' in time for ...

When Gordon Brown ( remember him ?) repeatedly proclaimed the " end of boom and bust " he was declaring his belief - along wi...

I've hugely enjoyed the documentary series tracing Dave Fishwick's valiant efforts to start a small community 'bank' in ...

Image from Parliament.uk This time he's made a submission   To the Banking Standards Commission . He's a poet and he didn...

It's not every day you get to brainstorm ways to bring diversity and sustainability to Britain's ailing financial system amidst ...

Here's what some of the non-banks have to say about banking standards (from 17:52).

Our continuing economic woes seem to reveal a UK Treasury that has lost touch with the fundamental tax and regulatory problems in the UK ...