Monthly Archive: October 2019

The FT reports today that Citi is planning to resuscitate its retail presence in Europe by opening flagship stores in the UK, France and Germany. Just as with the Norwegian Blue in the Monty...

Last week HSBC announced what was the first of what is expected to be a number of changes to the executive management of the Group following the announcement of Stuart Gulliver as the new CEO. As...

Four million customers of National Australia Bank in Australia were left without access to their money for over a week after a corrupt file took down the payments system. The incident arose on Wednesday night ...

Four hundred years after the Spanish Armada failed to invade Britain, the Spanish are now firmly in control of two of the largest banks in the UK. The announcement of the first two appointments...

As Barclays Capital announces that they will be laying off hundreds of staff, the government needs to take responsibility for this loss of jobs. By consistently calling for a reduction in bonuses the government...

The Financial Services Authority today announced that they were closing their supervisory investigation into the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, as one of the UK banks that required partial taxpayer bailout support. The FSA...

John Varley, the outgoing CEO of Barclays, yesterday at the Independent Commission on Banking public meeting said that ‘It is possible that free-if-in-credit banking is a structure that has outlived its time.’ He described...

Standard Life has announced today that it is to buy Focus Solutions, the financial services products and consultancy business. Victor Kiam, for those old enough to remember, used to go on television saying that...

Eric Daniels, the CEO of Lloyds Banking Group has said that the UK Banking sector is competitive, but just how easy it is to enter the market? For a start each of your key...