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HBOS ex-bosses face calls for City bans

The commission accused the trio of a "colossal failure" of management

Francis first real challenge: re-structuring the scandal ridden Vatican bank

Pope Francis, who has said he wants the Catholic Church to be a model of austerity and honesty, could restructure or even close the Vatican's scandal-ridden bank as part of a broad review of its troubled bureaucracy, Vatican sources say.

Shakespeare the 'hard-headed businessman' uncovered

A new study has found that he was repeatedly prosecuted and fined for illegally hoarding food

How not to run a currency – or potentially how to create a run on a currency?

If the chumps in charge of the Eurozone bail outs owned a brewery, they would all be stone cold sober and quite incapable of ever managing any form of festivity.

Time bomb to the next crash is ticking as debt sales surge

After every crash there will always be a handful of experts pointing out that they had seen it all coming years before.

Off target

POLITICIANS need a pretty good reason for interfering in the way that a business pays its employees

Schroders ‘set for the premier league’

Hollands says that the acquisition is first and foremost about private banking and wealth management, giving Schroders a “pretty significant market share” within the UK.

Banks still being too risky, say executives

Just 43pc of executives said they were completely confident their banks were taking acceptable risks

Sanlam’s Speirs looks to follow in footsteps of SJP and Towry

Speirs has ambitious growth targets for Sanlam and he views the model adopted by SJP and Towry, which combines restricted advice with in-house products, as his best means of achieving it.

Cyprus – is the sun setting for companies seeking tax breaks?

As the problems in Cyprus continue to make the headlines on a daily basis, we ask whether the sun could soon be setting on its reputation as a tax-favoured holding company location for international groups.

BNP Paribas Securities Services: Patrick Colle soundbites from his UK Press Conference

Patrick Colle kicked-off the event by providing a brief company update, focusing on key 2012 achievements.

High return on equity as crucial to the dividend income investor as the growth investor by Barry Norris, Argonaut Capital Partners

Ryanair is a great example of the way in which a company with a superior business model can generate consistent compound earnings growth

Wider powers could damage BoE, warns UBS head

I refused it flat… I thought this was too high a price to pay

Economic reality confounds the gloomsters

A relentless diet of pessimism fails to reflect the prospect of better times ahead

Cyprus's banks have been tamed – are Malta and Luxembourg next?

Bank of Cyprus will become a shadow of its former self

‘Industrialisation Imperative’ for Global Financial Services - RESEARCH

Focus totally on product and service innovation. Maximise delivery efficiency.

Rich Ricci profile: most of those blamed for the credit crisis have gone to ground, but not this Barclays investment banker

He's become the poster child for the excesses of the investment banking industry

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