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• Gordon Brown in secret push to sell Tobin tax to City

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  • FSA backs prime minister over tax on transactions • Global revenues could reach as high as £420bn Gordon Brown is secretly attempting to persuade some of the Citys leading figures to speak out in support of his plan for a new international tax on banking. Despite furious opposition from bank lobbyists and ...
  3 days ago

• Financial Regulations Chief Chides British Banks

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Executives failed to accept responsibility for the financial crisis and need to change their behavior, the head of the Financial Services Authority said.
  3 days ago

• Bankers have not learned lessons, says Financial Services Authority chief

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  • Bank bosses who run business unethically may be barred • Hector Sants attacks Conservative plans to disband regulator The City regulator today waded into the debate over the Tobin tax on transactions and warned the City that the appointment of top bankers could be vetoed if their approach to business is not ...
  3 days ago

• Tories need to change ideas on City regulation

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Hector Sants has criticised the City for failing to take responsibility for the banking crisis, and breaking up the FSA is not the answer What an elaborate way to say: "Please dont abolish the Financial Services Authority." Hector Sants, as chief executive of the City regulator, is perhaps obliged to avoid the ...
  3 days ago

• FSA threatens jail in City culture crackdown

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  Hector Sants chief executive of the Financial Services Authority announced an ambitious attempt to regulate the Citys highrolling culture.
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• UBS fined £8m after employees traded with customers money

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  FSA imposes its biggest-ever penalty and attacks banks inadequate systems and controls Swiss bank UBS has been slapped with an £8m fine, the third-largest ever levied by the City regulator, after it was discovered that four of the banks employees were able to use customer money to trade in currencies and metals ...
  1 week ago

• Last major seller of self-certification mortgages pulls out

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Platforms decision came after a Financial Services Authority paper proposed banning self-cert home loans Controversial self-certification mortgages – dubbed "liar loans" – will effectively become extinct this week after the sectors last remaining significant player today said it was withdrawing from the market. ...
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• Dan Roberts on the breaking up of Lloyds & RBS

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Dan Roberts on the breaking up of Lloyds and RBS Dan Roberts
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• Pushing Money Around Is Not Banking

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 128
  The essence of the ‘this time is different’ syndrome is simple. It is rooted in the firmly held belief that financial crises are things that happen to other people in other countries at other times; crises do not happen to us, here and now. We are doing things better, we are smarter, we have learned [...]
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• A £39bn handout – and the great British banking sell-off begins

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  • RBS and Lloyds forced to relinquish prized assets • Tories accuse Darling of new world record bailout The Conservatives have accused the government of creating a "new world record" for bank bailouts as another £39bn of taxpayers money was injected into Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group. The sum ...
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• Inflation is Evident If You Just Follow the Money

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 551
  Its going to be a shocker today. Well, not so shocking. The futures markets are predicting a 2.5% fall in Aussie stocks. This follows an awful Friday on Wall Street in which the Dow fell 250 points (2.57%) and the S&P shed 2.81%. A worrying sign (unless youre a bear) is that the volatility index is again on the ...
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• Payment Services Regulations mean better treatment for bank customers

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  From 1 November the Financial Services Authority will oversee the day-to-day dealings of banks and building societies New rules to make banks and building societies treat their customers more fairly will come into force on Sunday when the Financial Services Authority (FSA) takes over the regulation of their ...
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• Lloyds in talks on alternatives to GAPS

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Financial stocks are back in favour this morning as Lloyds tells the market it is in advanced talks with overseeing authorities on alternatives to the asset protection scheme and that there will not be any "material impact" from any restructuring it is required to undertake to meet EU regulatory rules. Following ...
  2 weeks ago

• Agency to match up economists and charities

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Move could improve professions standing after credit crunch, says Sir Gus ODonnell A new charity backed by cabinet secretary Sir Gus ODonnell has been launched which aims to parachute economists into voluntary organisations that could benefit from their expertise. Pro Bono Economics – founded by Andy Haldane, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Osborne calls for bank cash bonus ban

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Shadow chancellor makes strongest attack yet on banking sector Britains retail banks should be banned from paying out "significant" cash bonuses as part of a drive to plough profits back into new lending, George Osborne said today. In the strongest attack yet by the Tories on banks, the shadow chancellor said that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Myners threatens action over bloated investment bank fees

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  • Critics argue bank profits show lack of competition • State-backed Lloyds cash call will pay City £300m Lord Myners, the City minister, has warned of growing discontent among shareholders and company directors over the high level of fees investment banks charge for their services. He said if things did ...
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• Bankers should pay for mis-selling

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Financial Services Consumer Panel chairman calls on the FSA to impose personal fines on senior executives Bank bosses should face personal fines if their companies are found to have mis-sold insurance policies, according to the head of one of the UKs leading consumer-advocate bodies. Adam Phillips, chairman of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mervyn King is right – the time has come to break up the megabanks

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  The only path to a sustainable recovery is to take on big finance What is amazing about the banking crisis is how few officials and politicians – Vince Cable and, to a degree, City minister Lord Myners honourably excepted – have managed to express the rank unfairness of it all. Which is why last Tuesday evenings ...
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• UK: Homebuyers face questions on alcohol and smoking under new mortgage rules

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 142
  Homebuyers could be forced to provide detailed information about the amount of money they spend on alcohol each month to qualify for a new mortgage under a new clampdown on reckless lending.In a sweeping review of the mortgage market published today, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) said lenders needed to be far ...
  2 weeks ago

• Virgin Money application increases Northern Rock takeover speculation

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Virgin Money said it was interested in expanding the business to offer current accounts and mortgages Richard Bransons finance arm Virgin Money has applied to the City regulator for a banking licence in a move widely expected to be in preparation for a takeover bid for Northern Rock. The company said it applied two ...
  2 weeks ago

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