Blog posts tagged "Banking"

December 27, 2011 11:58 am 22 Comments

In 2012, the stage is set at many levels for financial and consequent economic disaster, writes Jon Snow.

November 21, 2011 8:38 am 39 Comments

Jon Snow compares the experience of his own grandfather to the bankers of today and asks if anyone really understands "the bubble"?

September 13, 2011 9:48 am 83 Comments

Three years after the global financial crisis and the virtual implosion of the British banking system, Jon Snow asks why no bankers have yet been prosecuted.

July 19, 2011 6:51 am 47 Comments

"No one knows where it would end... Dublin? Madrid? Lisbon? Rome? Shiver our timbers... London?"

June 17, 2010 10:46 am 52 Comments

Spain is in the frame again...stress testing her banks seems not to have been a particularly reassuring experience.

June 14, 2010 9:48 am 10 Comments

The authoritative Which? Commission report (Chaired by David Davies MP) tells it like it is. In the 21st century we get a rotten service.

October 28, 2009 11:59 am 22 Comments

Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow insists there are no signs of increaed credit being made available in Europe despite the campaigns by politicians and senior economists.

October 22, 2009 2:35 pm 11 Comments

Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow says he is not surprised to read the Bank of England governor Mervyn King and Gordon Brown have different views about breaking up the mega-banks.

July 3, 2009 2:08 pm No Comments

I have blogged before about one of the best yet most under-used economic indicators, the Baltic Dry Index. This charts the movement (or lack of) of the world’s shipping. To add to what I said, last month refrigerated-shipping operator Eastwind Maritime filed for bankruptcy in New York. Sweden’s Nordea bank seized and sold on 13 [...]

June 22, 2009 3:58 pm No Comments

I am at the apparent end of a tussle with the Financial Services Authority (FSA). Or I think I am. Last month it was revealed that 51 individuals had effectively failed to pass muster as “competent” to hold key positions in Britain’s financial services industry. Or to put it more politely, these individuals had “withdrawn” [...]