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Gordon Brown issues challenge over Sunday Times recordings
Friday 02 September 2011
Gordon Brown has stepped up his campaign against Rupert Murdoch’s News International media group, sending tape recordings to the Metropolitan Police earlier today which he says challenge the Sunday Times’s assurances that it broke no laws when investigating his personal financial affairs.
The Business On... Nathan Bostock Head of wholesale banking, Lloyds
Wednesday 20 July 2011
Musical chairs at the Zombies?
Gordon Brown's shock that his family medical records were hacked
Tuesday 12 July 2011
Rebekah Brooks, then editor of The Sun, contacted the Browns, informing them that she had obtained medical details about their four-year-old son Fraser
Will smaller lenders sign a mutual agreement?
Tuesday 22 March 2011
Medium-sized building societies may soon unite to see off takeover threats from their larger rivals. Sean Farrell reports
Ofcom warns firms over silent calling
Tuesday 01 February 2011
The communications watchdog Ofcom is set to clamp down harder on "silent calling", warning companies that they will face fines of up to £2m if they break the rules. New regulations come into force today designed to prevent call centre companies from harassing consumers with silent calls.
Lloyds poaches new boss from Santander
Wednesday 03 November 2010
Lloyds Banking Group poached its new boss from rival Santander today in a move seen as a major coup for the part-nationalised bank.
In The Spotlight: Stephen Hester, RBS
Saturday 08 May 2010
The career banker charged with putting RBS back in the hunt
Business Profile: Eric Daniels
Wednesday 28 April 2010
Quiet American is breathing a little easier as Lloyds returns to profit
RBS boss defuses row by agreeing to give up £1.6m bonus
Monday 22 February 2010
The cold wind of public disapproval appeared to have touched the hearts of Britain's wealthiest bankers yesterday when the chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland agreed to go without his £1.6m bonus.
UK praised for final banking bail-out plans
Monday 25 January 2010
The European Commission today approved what it called the last two chapters in UK Government-funded bank bail-outs.
Pym to be chair of Northern Rock bad bank
Wednesday 16 December 2009
Richard Pym has been appointed as chairman of Northern Rock's "bad bank". He was chief executive of Alliance & Leicester between 2002 and 2007 and is chairman of Bradford & Bingley, another nationalised bank.
Civil servants will lead hunt to find new chairman for nationalised bank agency
Sunday 07 June 2009
The Treasury is carrying out its own search to find the new chairman for UKFI, the government agency which overseas the shareholdings in the UK's banks, Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group.
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