Nick Kochan
Nick Kochan is a financial and political journalist based in London. He has written extensively on financial and white collar crime
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Arnaud Bamberger: Haute horlogerie
03 August 2013 12:00 AM
Resist this cross-border bullying of Cyprus
02 July 2013 01:33 PM
The real issue here is the moral behaviour of large nations towards smaller ones
The corruption deal of the century: How Guinea lost billions of pounds in Simandou mining licensing
17 June 2013 08:07 PM
The African country is fighting to get back billions of pounds of mining rights lost in a murky transaction
Diezani Alison-Madueke: The woman working to clean up Africa's dirty oil
04 June 2013 12:57 AM
These fines for HSBC, Standard Chartered and LLoyds prove there's one law for US banks, another for Europe's
12 December 2012 07:06 PM
There is a suspicion that the swingeing fines imposed on foreign banks are the result of political imperative
Fraud squad's new bruiser
07 November 2012 12:00 AM
David Green has brought his tough style in the courtroom to the Serious Fraud Office, promising to get tough on those who have broken the rules on Libor and hospitality
- 1 Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
- 2 Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
- 3 US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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DJ Taylor: Who stole the people's own culture?
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