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    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      UK banks
      Scrapping the UK bonus cap will do little for competitiveness

      Banker salaries that were doubled to get round the measure could become baked-in

      A curved glass building in the City of London
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Markets
      How the US is crushing Europe’s domestic exchanges

      Policymakers fight tooth and nail to retain big international companies on their home exchanges but lose out

      Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
    • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
      UK banks
      NatWest saga shows running a bank is more of a high-wire act than ever

      The Farage row suggests political intervention will continue until banking governance becomes more muscular

      Dame Alison Rose
    • Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
      ReviewEconomics books
      Our Lives in Their Portfolios — owners in the shadows

      It is hard not share Brett Christophers’ rage in this polemic against the greed and short-termism of the asset management industry

    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      Winfried Bischoff
      Win’s world

      “Who do you work for?”

    • Monday, 27 March, 2023
      Banks
      The latest bank failures show the dangers of aiming too high

      Both Credit Suisse and SVB fell victim to familiar pitfalls for ambitious lenders

      A Credit Suisse logo on a street in Zurich
    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      UK banks
      HSBC and the City won this round — but hard work lies ahead

      Regulations put in place in the UK after the global financial crisis passed their first big test with the Silicon Valley Bank rescue

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      Banks
      Madcap Stonehouse scandal exposes 1970s banking’s corruptible underbelly

      Weak governance, complacent regulation and sloppy auditing are still at the root of corporate frauds 50 years later

    • Friday, 25 November, 2022
      Financial services
      ‘Big Bang 2’ reforms expose the City’s weaknesses

      The chancellor’s proposals are only a partial response to London’s financial decline

      In the past, British companies seeking a public listing did so in London, but many technology and life science businesses are now opting for the US-based Nasdaq
    • Friday, 16 September, 2022
      UK financial regulation
      The City and the Treasury have a difficult balancing act

      Sir Tom Scholar’s exit endangers institutional memory of how to handle a financial crisis — and the need for caution in deregulation

      Close-up picture of red HM Treasury crest on the white brick wall of the department’s offices in London
    • Wednesday, 2 June, 2021
      ReviewBusiness books
      Crossing Continents — a sparkling history of Standard Chartered

      Duncan Campbell-Smith’s authorised account is excellent, but focuses more on the bank’s colourful past than recent corporate failings

    • Tuesday, 30 March, 2021
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Built on a Lie — Neil Woodford’s fall from star stockpicker

      Owen Walker’s salutary tale about Britain’s best-known fund manager will invoke the ire of investors

    • Friday, 8 May, 2020
      UK universities
      The time is ripe to reform UK university finance

      Cutting tuition fees is no longer realistic, but there are other ways to better support vital courses

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    • Monday, 6 April, 2020
      UK banks
      Banks must show they really can do ‘God’s work’

      Lenders need to put public before private interest or remain a pariah industry

      Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., speaks during an Economic Club of New York event in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Blankfein said that the Trump administration's escalation of tariff threats against China makes sense as a negotiating strategy. Photographer: Mark Kauzlarich/Bloomberg
    • Wednesday, 7 August, 2019
      UK universities
      Peers warn against advice urging cuts to tuition fees

      Review ‘completely missed the mark’ on preserving university research funding

      Mature student in the library at the university
    • Friday, 12 July, 2019
      Deutsche Bank AG
      Deutsche Bank’s retreat may not be the end of its equities story

      The experience of Barclays suggests the bank may one day seek to rebuild a full service

      Deutsche Bank London
    • Thursday, 30 May, 2019
      News in-depthUK universities
      Augar review: how will it affect universities and students?

      First report on the UK’s post-school learning in half a century has wide implications

    • Wednesday, 29 May, 2019
      Education
      Call for £1bn to fix England’s further education system

      Augar review says government must close skills gaps and reduce tuition fees

      Embargoed to 0001 Thursday July 20 File photo dated 27/06/08 of students at a University graduation ceremony. The proportion of firsts handed out by UK universities has soared, with a third of institutions now grading at least one in four degrees with the top honour. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Thursday July 20, 2017. In some cases, the proportion has more than doubled in five years, according to Press Association analysis of official data. See PA story EDUCATION Degrees. Photo credit should read: David Cheskin/PA Wire
    • Monday, 27 May, 2019
      UK universities
      Review of UK post-secondary education to recommend fee cut

      Augar review expected to back greater support for vocational and technical training

      The reform is also expected to recommend changes to student loans
    • Monday, 13 May, 2019
      Student finance
      Martin Lewis: replace ‘misleading’ and ‘financially dangerous’ student loan statements

      Pressure grows on Student Loan Company to refocus on graduates’ expected repayments

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    • Friday, 16 November, 2018
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Preventing moral hazard in Britain’s universities

      Students must be protected if higher education providers go bust

      A low and wide angle view of the modern facade to the eminent London university of Imperial College known for its faculties in science, engineering, medicine and business.
    • Saturday, 3 November, 2018
      Barclays Capital Inc
      Barclays’ new chairman should avoid repeating history

      Nigel Higgins takes over a bank torn over its mission and strategy

      An undated handout picture released by Barclays on November 2, 2018 shows Nigel Higgins, appointed as the new chairman from May 2019, posing at an undisclosed location. - UK bank Barclays have appointed Rothschild CEO Nigel Higgins to become the new chairman of its board of directors in May 2019 to succeed John McFarlane who is retiring. (Photo by HO / BARCLAYS / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / BARCLAYS " - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTSHO/AFP/Getty Images
    • Monday, 12 February, 2018
      UK banks
      As a legal case looms, the past returns to haunt Barclays

      As UK prosecutors bring a new charge, the bank is in better shape than for years

      FSA Headquarters And Baclays Plc HQ As Diamond Offers To Rebut 'Unfair' Charges...A logo hangs outside the headquarters of Barclays Plc in the Canary Wharf business district of London, U.K., on Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Former Barclays Plc Chief Executive Officer Robert Diamond offered to return to U.K. Parliament to challenge lawmakers who said he wasn't telling the truth about the bank's relationship with regulators. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
    • Wednesday, 3 January, 2018
      US financial regulation
      A call for corporate boards to overturn the status quo

      It took the banking crisis of 2008 to expose the flaws of shareholder value

      Dr. Milton Friedman who won the 1976 Nobel Prize for economics.
    • Monday, 6 November, 2017
      Investment research
      How Mifid II can rehabilitate sellside research

      Europe’s new investment market rules will focus on the economics of paid-for analysis

      LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 01: A general view of the Canary Wharf business district on November 1, 2017 in London, England. It has been suggested that the Bank of England may look to raise interest rates this week, for the first time in more than a decade. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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