http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:01:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/03/crisis-what-banking-crisis-the-rise-of-ethical-banking-in-britain/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/03/crisis-what-banking-crisis-the-rise-of-ethical-banking-in-britain/#comments Mon, 03 Sep 2012 10:15:56 +0000 Simon Birch http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=28123 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.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/03/crisis-what-banking-crisis-the-rise-of-ethical-banking-in-britain/feed/ 20 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/28/barclays-whats-a-little-interest-rate-change-between-friends-and-a-bottle-of-bolly/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/28/barclays-whats-a-little-interest-rate-change-between-friends-and-a-bottle-of-bolly/#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:31:23 +0000 Christina Patterson http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25774 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”?]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/28/barclays-whats-a-little-interest-rate-change-between-friends-and-a-bottle-of-bolly/feed/ 52