The UK’s regulatory maze benefits the powerful. It’s time for an overhaul
No fewer than 25 regulators deal with money laundering alone yet London is a major centre for dirty money, points out Prem Sikka.
No fewer than 25 regulators deal with money laundering alone yet London is a major centre for dirty money, points out Prem Sikka.
The financialisation of capitalism began in the 1970s and is now firmly established.
Angela Merkel, right-leaning Mariano Rajoy, and the man dubbed ‘Italy’s Tony Blair’ all support it, so why doesn’t George Osborne?
It is no longer sufficient to have a public discussion about the banking system that neglects the economy as a whole, writes Jack Copley.
What’s wrong with simply putting people’s money to work, in a safe place, to mobilise the investment for the long-term?
The City of London’s status as the world’s capital of carbon trading and finance is being undermined by Conservative MEPs.
Something strange has been happening in stock markets since 2008: they have been going up. Not just up, but absolutely flying. Through the prolonged failed recovery, unemployment, an investment crisis, the Fukushima crisis and the EU debacle, Wall street, still the market all else look to, has doubled in value.
Jonathan Orde of the Young Fabians explains that it’s not all about banking reform – City culture needs to be tackled too.
Stephany Griffith-Jones presents the plan for reformation of the banking system to end the perpetual crisis of finance.
“Some good news” for health secretary Andrew Lansley this morning: another group of people back his NHS reforms… the bankers! This brings the tally to three.