Articles:
- How London Whale's errors attracted the market sharks - The football match of your lifetime starts in 20 minutes but you don't have a ticket. You will pay whatever the touts on the corner are demanding - 22nd May 2012
- A little more charm might help us to swallow Alliance Boots' tax medicine - Outlook: If you ask Stefano Pessina whether he pays enough tax, expect derision. Abuse - 17th May 2012
- Breedon may have earned his £3m L&G payoff, but it's still a huge amount - Outlook: Tim Breedon can skip out of Legal & General (L&G) at the end of this year with two valuable things: vindication and three million quid. Both are nice, but if asked to choose, you might settle for the latter - 11th May 2012
- A few rebellions but the City gravy train is likely to chug along as normal - Outlook: The phrase shareholder spring is already a cliche that should probably be banned by all self-respecting journals - 10th May 2012
- This is alarming, but not nearly as scary as 2008 - Don't listen to the man on the news who says you're doomed - 8th May 2012
- As a caring, sharing chairman, Aviva's Lord Sharman was an abject failure - Outlook: You seem to have mistaken me for someone who has the slightest interest in your problems. Aviva's chairman, Lord Sharman, didn't say this yesterday, but he seemed to communicate it in every other way - 4th May 2012
- Moss set for a rocky ride but he may well cling on as Aviva tries to tough it out - Whether Mr Moss is personally a nice guy or not – some say he is, some say he's not – is not the issue on hand at today's annual meeting. (The Barbican. 11am. Rock up. Throw fruit.) - 3rd May 2012
- Barclays is the John Terry of banks - Outlook: For the last 20 years, and perhaps much longer than that, Barclays has been the perpetual naughty child, scrawling abuse on desks, dishing out John Terry-style dead legs and then acting all upset when it turns out no one likes them - 27th April 2012
- Osborne desperately needs wiggle room – but he gave that up a long time ago - Outlook: Politicians have long got it into their heads that the public most admire politicians of total conviction. U-turns are for wimps - 26th April 2012
- Sands' warning - the next banking crisis starts here, unless the FPC grows teeth - Outlook: Moaning banker alert. But wait, this one may have a point. Writing (with some style) in Thursday's Financial Times, Peter Sands gives the proposed new banking regulator both barrels - 30th March 2012
- Death and disasters don't make much difference to Lloyd's of London bosses - Outlook: Under what circumstances would bonuses to executives at Lloyd's of London fall? - 29th March 2012
- Blankfein's blitz on company emails could well come back to bite him - Outlook: Are Lloyd Blankfein's private emails soon to become public property? News that Goldman Sachs is scouring its own staff's email's for evidence that they referred to clients as muppets mean that it can't be ruled out - 23rd March 2012
- The business world's dirty secret: they need regulations in order to survive - Outlook: The pre and post-Budget musings of business folk were tediously predictable. Like the revolutionaries in Animal Farm repeating the mantra "four legs good, two legs bad," chief executives and their advisers seldom depart from the script - 22nd March 2012
- The Oreo cookie milkshake route to a job with Goldman Sachs - Outlook: How do you manage to get a job at Goldman Sachs? There's the Oxford double first, the family connection, and the 17 interviews route (or some combination thereof). But it can be much more straightforward than that. It is just a bank - 16th March 2012
- Goldman Sachs has to change its ways fast in a new reality or face relegation - Outlook: Investment banks are like football clubs. At some point they fall. Always - 15th March 2012
- Who is mastermind pulling the strings? - Outlook: Stock-market shenanigans, grand conspiracy theories department - 9th March 2012
- Just not cricket, but the fraudsters will always be back for another innings - Outlook: The following words by JK Galbraith should be read by every aggrieved Allen Stanford investor - 8th March 2012
- Perhaps the 500 protesting against a 50p tax band need better accountants - Outlook: Is the 50p top income tax rate damaging the economy? A letter to The Daily Telegraph yesterday was sure of it - 2nd March 2012
- No sympathy for this struggling inventor of schemes to beat the taxman - Outlook: If you were seeking an accountant, would you hire one that has just blown a £12m black hole in its own accounts? - 1st March 2012
- Cameron needs his old man's spirit - Outlook: David Cameron is in a quandary. Are bankers (that word seems to be shorthand for anyone working in the City) a force for good or ill? - 24th February 2012
- We must be allowed to see whatever was going wrong with the Pru's bid for AIA - There has never been a better time for City practices, for the minutiae of gigantic takeover deals, to be scrutinised in the public glare - 23rd February 2012
- The real problem with our banks? Too fast, too competitive - Outlook: Do we want more competition in banking? John Fingleton at the Office of Fair Trading thinks so - 17th February 2012
- QE hasn't been a runaway success, and for that we should be grateful - Outlook: Inventing money to chuck at banks in the vague hope that they'll do the right thing with it is over, Sir Mervyn King seemed to signal yesterday - 16th February 2012
- If Sir Mervyn is now printing even more money, how about using it differently? - Outlook: Sir Mervyn King wanders into the computer room at the Bank of England. He stoops to the printer, checking that it is full (very full) of paper. Then he types Control P and hits Return. Another £50bn chugs out of the Bank and into the streets. Hey presto, economy saved - 10th February 2012
- Hester's public outpouring proves that bankers are not of this world - Outlook: How many sticks of dynamite would have to explode between Stephen Hester's ears for the fog to clear? - 9th February 2012
- Don't be scared of overpaid bankers.If they threaten to leave, just let them - Outlook: Here's how we are supposed to think. When they gave Fred Goodwin a knighthood for services to banking, we were to be impressed. What a fine fellow he must be. Now they've taken it away, we are to disapprove of him more than we already did and praise MPs for taking bold action - 2nd February 2012
- What's your game Lewis? Either make a bid for Mitchells & Butlers or move on - Outlook: What does Joe Lewis want with Mitchells & Butlers? It's several years since his Piedmont investment vehicle first acquired a stake in the pubs group and we are no closer to a proper answer - 27th January 2012
- Despite this result, the FSA is unlikely to catch any clever wheeler-dealers - Outlook: Goal. A nice win for the FSA yesterday, which nabbed US hedge fund king David Einhorn for a spot of market abuse in the trading of shares in Punch Taverns - 26th January 2012
- New boss Clarke should pull the plug on Tesco's costly American adventure - Outlook: There was always a coals-to-Newcastle, fish-to-Iceland feel about Tesco's plan to crack the US supermarket industry - 20th January 2012
- There's nothing to be lost by curbing executive pay - Outlook: A relaxed lunch in a nice boozer. In attendance: a banker from the old school. An angel investor. A PR man of the even older school. An entrepreneur who has just sold a business he built from scratch for tens of millions of pounds with the aid of the others - 19th January 2012
- Five key questions for Barclays' Diamond - Outlook: The banker is huddled in the corner of Jamies Wine Bar, just off Ludgate Hill, and looking shifty - 13th January 2012
- One in the eye for Utley as Battle of Hastings threatens to turn really nasty - Outlook: Grateful recipients of Neil Utley's family Christmas card were charmed as usual - 12th January 2012
- We need a bold move on pay, not just tough talking - There's been a clampdown on runaway executive pay coming any day since at least 1980. It is not obvious that David Cameron's moves finally to get some action will be any more successful - 9th January 2012
- Why did these chief executives call for their own customers to be impoverished? - Outlook: For a cautious, perhaps even somewhat shy man, Simon Wolfson was unusually forthright. Certain in fact. George Osborne's deficit reduction programme was vital - 5th January 2012
- Will this be the year the bankers finally clean up their act? Don't bet on it - Outlook: An old joke for a new year: why should you get immediately furious at your bank? - 4th January 2012
- Lloyds has looked after its star signing, but what about the rest of the staff? - Outlook: "I'm not going to work any less but I am going to work differently. As we move into the second phase of the turnaround of Lloyds I can detach myself from the day-to-day running of the business and focus on strategy." - 16th December 2011
- Hard to take a shine to Diamond – unless he gets a handle on his bankers' bonuses - Outlook Bob Diamond is clinging on to something. It is this: the highly questionable notion that his existence is good for the rest of us. The Barclays chief executive was in front of the Treasury Select Committee again yesterday, doing his best impersonation of a respectable member of society - 15th December 2011
- A Government giddy on celebrity deserves Mary's wishful shopping list - Outlook Sir Humphrey wanders into the study at Number 10. "I have Mary Portas on the phone for you Prime Minister." The PM is wading through "her vision for the future of our high streets" and is suddenly feeling very depressed. "Tell her I'm out to lunch," he sighs. "On second thoughts, tell her she is." - 14th December 2011
- Unrepentant and living in splendour, the kind of banker we just don't need - It is also to be hoped other bankers will decide Greenburgh is not who they want to emulate - 13th December 2011
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