Blog posts tagged "banks"

November 15, 2011 9:22 am 18 Comments

Amid warnings that banks are now ‘too big to save’, and signs of a tug-of-war in Europe, perhaps the crashing of banks is what we can now see on our Christmas horizons.

October 27, 2011 11:21 am 18 Comments

After the eurozone bailout plan is agreed, Jon Snow asks what difference it will make if we are still unable to police the bankers?

September 19, 2011 11:10 am 20 Comments

Has anything been learned from the 2008 banking disaster – beyond the reality that it is the bulk of middle-income earners and the poor who pay for the consequences? Jon Snow writes.

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 23, 2011 8:17 am 61 Comments

Jon Snow on how the Greek financial crisis has the potential to affect every man, woman and child in the UK.

April 11, 2011 7:38 am 19 Comments

Will a report aiming to shake-up the UK banking sector really change anything? Or will banking remain a so-called Inside Job?

October 4, 2010 9:53 am 36 Comments

A financier whom I know calls me over the weekend about the Irish financial crisis. “Jon”, he says, “I trust you know that 80 per cent of the Irish banking crisis was caused by a handful of property developers taking massive punts on the housing and construction market?”

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.