Barclays
The bankers bonuses that George Osborne didn’t want you to see
Perhaps the Chancellor didn’t want us to see what a small number of grotesquely over-paid individuals he was batting for in Brussels this week.
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye, Econoblog | Friday, 8 March 2013 at 3:48 pm
Crisis, what banking crisis? The rise of ethical banking in Britain
As far as the UK’s ethical banking sector is concerned the steady stream of headlines from the interest-rate fixing Libor scandal to the HSBC money laundering for drug barons has proved to be a marketing campaign from heaven.
By Simon Birch | Econoblog, Notebook, Opinion | Monday, 3 September 2012 at 11:15 am
Anderson Cooper, Bob Diamond, Bates Motel, #ToMyFutureKids: Why are they trending?
A look at the trending topics on social networking sites and search engines today, to see what we’re interested in, and why.
By Ellen E Jones | Notebook | Tuesday, 3 July 2012 at 10:50 am
Marcus Agius, Liam Fox, Chaka Khan and Spain: Why are they trending?
A look at the trending topics on social networking sites and search engines today, to see what we’re interested in, and why.
By Ellen E Jones | Notebook | Monday, 2 July 2012 at 11:45 am
The Stone Roses, Bob Diamond, David Beckham and #ICan’tDateYou: Why are they trending?
A look at the trending topics on social networking sites and search engines today, to see what we’re interested in, and why.
By Ellen E Jones | Notebook | Friday, 29 June 2012 at 10:37 am
Barclays: What’s a little interest rate change between friends and a bottle of bolly?
Let me get this straight. Traders at Barclays bank actively manipulated one of the world’s most important interest rates, which affects the mortgage rate millions of people pay on their homes? They did this secretly and deliberately in order to increase their profits? They did this as favours to each other, and promised each other bottles of Bolly in return? They did it so casually that that they said things like “low one million and three million would be nice”? They said things like “dude, I owe you big time”?
By Christina Patterson | Eagle Eye, Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 28 June 2012 at 1:31 pm
Marty McFly, Barclays, Mnet20 and Nexus7: Why are they trending?
A look at the trending topics on social networking sites and search engines today, to see what we’re interested in, and why.
By Ellen E Jones | | Thursday, 28 June 2012 at 11:50 am
Britain’s subprime bankers
Note that Barclays, which constantly points out that it came through the credit crisis without taking public money, registered losses of £21bn on subprime investmants, only slightly less than that corporate disaster zone, RBS.
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye, Econoblog | Thursday, 10 November 2011 at 2:56 pm
The subprime legacy of British banks
The subprime nightmare isn’t over, according to research by analysts at Credit Suisse. And British banks are still exposed to home loans taken out by dirt poor Americans.
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye, Econoblog | Thursday, 10 November 2011 at 2:43 pm
Piling on the pain for British bank shareholders
One wonders just how badly these banks have to perform before shareholders start asking why they are paying out billions of revenues in bonuses to their executives and employees each year.
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