Jail reckless bankers, report urges
The Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards calls for new measures, including criminal sanctions, to make bankers responsible for their own failings. Read more ...
The Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards calls for new measures, including criminal sanctions, to make bankers responsible for their own failings. Read more ...
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The Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards today publishes its Final Report – ‘Changing banking for good’. It outlines the radical reform required to improve standards across the banking industry. Read more ...
Commission led by Andrew Tyrie recommends jailing bankers for 'reckless misconduct' and enforcing a wait for bonuses [...] Read more ...
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The new report from the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards busts the myth that pay has fallen since the crash. Read more ...
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The Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards has this morning published its long-awaited report on, well, banking standards. At 571 pages it will take some time to digest, though that obviously hasn’t stopped some people from already running around demanding the government pledges to implement its findings in full. But at first glance it loo [...] Read more ...
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Polly Toynbee: The banking commission report takes good steps forward and makes fun reading, but can it bring a change in culture? Read more ...
It will grab headlines, but the Banking Commission report risks turning the financial sector into an inefficient public utility, writes Mark Field MP. Read more ...
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Politicians and policymakers give their reactions to a major report from the parliamentary commission on banking standards calling for a new law to jail bankers for reckless misconduct, the deferral of bonuses and more measures to foster competition [...] Read more ...
The Banking Commission report is no doubt a serious document worth reading carefully. The members of the Commission took a great deal of evidence and have obviously thought deeply about the ethical and economic implications of the banking crisis. They seem to have got to the heart of it in terms of what went wrong [...] [...] Read more ...
Alarming rumours were trickling out of Whitehall last night. Could it be true that the 2015 Spending review will cut £2bn from children's services? It could be mischievous, it could be simply mista [...] Read more ...
Some of you may have already followed the 161 hours of evidence during the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards. Others will have read the 571 pages of the report, published overnight. For those who have neither the time or inclination, here is a summary of the main points – with analysis of whether Osborne is likely to take heed or not. Read more ...
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First Minister announces funding programme to support growth across Scotland. Read more ...
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The new criminal offence would make sure that top executives paid for their 'shocking and widespread malpractice', the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards said. Read more ...
David Cameron said Britain would use its G8 presidency to crack down on tax avoidance. What progress has been made so far? Read more ...
Britain’s banking bosses should face jail if their decisions force fresh bailouts, the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards says today. Read more ...
Dalian Wanda Group, a Chinese property developer, says it will spend £1bn ($1.6bn) to buy a British yacht maker and property in London. Read more ...
A new criminal offence of reckless banking punishable by jail is one proposal from the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards [...] Read more ...
In an unusual move, China's National Bureau of Statistics – clearly frustrated with the lies, damn lies – has recently outed a local government it says was involved in a particularly egregious case of number fudging. Read more ...
Summary Some short paragraphs on the Banking Commission's report The document is massive. The papers are held here on Parliament's website. I have been through the summary, tweeting via Puffles fro [...] Read more ...
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President Barack Obama, in a major foreign policy speech in Berlin on Wednesday, is set to make the case for a new phase in nuclear weapons reductions, according to senior U.S. officials briefed on the plans. Read more ...
