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BILLIONAIRE investor Warren Buffett has seen the instant paper profits he made on General Electric and Goldman Sachs shredded as the market continues to slide. Goldman fell 7.3% in New [...]

THE old gag about failing football teams is that they look good on paper, but useless on grass. From the Financial Services Authority report into the collapse of Royal Bank [...]

SANTANDER UK's boss, Ana Botin, showed she is no fool when she walked into 11 Downing Street with a sheaf of papers on display in full view of the snappers. [...]

Byline: Mark Blunden A MAN has been charged with trying to mastermind a £30 billion fraud using forged Royal Bank of Scotland documents. Chinese businessman Wenwei Xiao allegedly tried to [...]

FINANCIAL TIMES Philip Stephens: When Britain eventually emerges from the recession, it will hopefully do so with a different sort of economy one less reliant on consumer spending and borrowing [...]

Nouriel Roubini: The US and global economy are at risk of severe stagdeflation, a deadly combination of recession and deflation that means 2009 will be a painful year of a [...]

Byline: CHRIS BLACKHURST AT MIDDAY on Tuesday this week, Byron Trott, a banker in Chicago, picked up the phone and speeddialled a number in Nebraska. A flurry of other calls [...]

Byline: Simon Hunt SOME claim that City drinking culture is dead and buried -- in reality it's just gone underground. London's deepest licensed bar is on its way to Holborn, [...]

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Byline: Nick Goodway LONDON bankers today expressed relief that today's White Paper on Banking Reform does not go as far as the original proposals from Sir John Vickers' Commission last [...]

Byline: Oliver Poole and Gideon Spanier LLOYDS Bank and Virgin Holidays today pulled all advertising from the News of the World in protest at the hacking scandal. Lloyds, 43 per [...]

TODAY this paper publishes details of the superinjunction obtained by Sir Fred Goodwin, the former Royal Bank of Scotland chief, to hide details of an alleged extra-marital affair. The existence [...]

Byline: Tristan Kirk Courts Reporter A CITY compliance officer responsible for ensuring his firm followed the rules of the financial markets forged official papers to hide his conviction for fraud. [...]

THE CHANCELLOR, Alistair Darling, sets out the Government's proposals for reforming the banking system in a White Paper today. It manages to sidestep the fundamental question about regulation, namely, who [...]

Byline: Anne McElvoy I F sunlight is the best disinfectant, it has taken many years and traumatic testimony from scores of victims for its beams to reach the dark recesses [...]

Byline: Chris Blackhurst A MOTORBIKE weaves through the London traffic. It's heading across town, from Belgravia to the City. Riding pillion is Aidan Barclay. The bike races up to the [...]

Byline: Anna Davis Education Correspondent AN EVENING STA T NDARD distributor today spoke of his pride after his stepson won an apprenticeship at Goldman Sachs. John White, who gives out [...]

THE CHANCELLOR, Alistair Darling, has set out the Government's proposals for reforming the banking system in a White Paper. They include establishing a new Council for Financial Stability, chaired by [...]

Byline: JIM ARMITAGE HIGH Street banks face the prospect of having to deploy hundreds ofbillions of pounds from their balance sheets to bail out highly riskyinvestment vehicle affiliate companies after [...]

Byline: Tristan Kirk Courts Reporter A CITY compliance officer who faces jail for fraud told a judge 'I'm gobsmacked' when his attempt to prevent the press covering his case was [...]

Byline: Russell Lynch TOP managers at Worldpay landed a PS480 million paper fortune today as the payments processing firm made its public debut in London's biggest float of the year. [...]

UP TO a million small firms across Britain may soon shut, according to accountancy group the Corporate Finance Network. Kirsty McGregor of the CFN said: 'Small and medium-sized businesses employing [...]

Byline: COMMENT Jim Armitage THEY'RE going to have to start calling it the Listening Bank. Andrew Bailey, new Governor of the Bank of England, has been doing everything right in [...]

Byline: Jim Armitage MUCH of Japan is in a state akin to ecstasy. The cause of this national celebration; a Sumo wrestler called Tokushoryu. To the shock of the established [...]

THE latest surge in donations to this paper's Homeless Veterans appeal takes the total raised to an astonishing PS1 million. A PS300,000 donation from Lloyds Bank took the total to [...]

Byline: Nick Goodway THE 95-year-old London gold fix, which sets the precious metal's price for jewellers, miners and traders, may have been rigged for up to decade, according to the [...]

Byline: Nick Goodway THE 95-year-old London gold fix, which sets the precious metal's price for jewellers, miners and traders, may have been rigged for up to a decade, according to [...]

Byline: Graeme Evans TAKEOVER bets on Standard Chartered and Ladbrokes owner Entain were the talk of City dealing rooms today during another record-breaking day for the FTSE 100 index. London's [...]

ALARM bells should always sound when a banker sues over his reputation. Back in 2004, just after he received his knighthood, the then Royal Bank of Scotland boss Fred Goodwin [...]

Byline: GIDEON SPANIER ?GUARDIAN Media Group chief executive Andrew Miller's efforts to shrink the loss-making group continue as he looks to manage a portfolio of investments rather than run a [...]

Byline: Russell Lynch ECONOMISTS leapt to the defence of Mervyn King today following an astonishing attack on the Bank of England Governor by the influential New York Times. The paper [...]

Byline: Barbara Chandler FIFTY per cent of homeowners made improvement to their property in the past year. Spending £990 can add £2,230 to the value of your home, says Halifax [...]

ROLLING Stone's fabulous description of Goldman Sachs as a 'great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity' -- is taking off. Practically every UK paper used the phrase when [...]

ALISTAIR Darling today promised tighter regulation of the financial system and warned bankers that the return of the bonus culture risked fuelling another crisis. The Chancellor said it would be [...]

JAPANESE banking group Mitsubishi UFJ Financial took a $506 million (?280.6 million) paper loss on its $9 billion investment in Morgan Stanley just hours after striking the deal yesterday as [...]

JAPANESE banking group Mitsubishi UFJ Financial took a $506 million (?278 million) paper loss on its $9 billion investment in Morgan Stanley just hours after striking the deal yesterday as [...]

Byline: PETER ALLEN A SCEPTICAL French media today poured scorn on explanations for thealleged £3.7 billion fraud at the country's second largest bank. National newspapers led the onslaught on SocGen [...]

Byline: ECONOMIC ANALYSIS Russell Lynch EEYORES and Grinches have had the upper hand lately. If it isn't shoppers wincing at rising prices, it's firms fretting about Brexit. The Office for [...]

Byline: Simon English THE JPMorgan dealer known as the London Whale has posted scores of documents on a new website alleging the bank's top brass knew about the trades which [...]

ASSET-BACKED commercial paper conduits (ABCPCs) are the engines thatdrive the UK's biggest banks such as HSBC, Lloyds TSB and HBOS. They areoff-balance sheet investment vehicles used to finance the banks' [...]

Byline: JIM ARMITAGE HIGH Street banks face the prospect of having to deploy hundreds ofmillions of pounds from their balance sheets to bail out highly riskyinvestment vehicle affiliate companies after [...]

Byline: NickGoodway JAMIE Dimon has taken a huge bet on the bank he runs, spending the equivalent of his entire salary last year -- $26.6 million (PS18.3 million) -- on [...]

TEN inspirational young people with troubled pasts were given Dragons' Den-style funding last night from Lloyds Bank to enable them to turn their lives around by establishing their own businesses. [...]

TO a sunny Lord's for JPMorgan's 10th annual clients vs bankers match, and players could be forgiven for thinking all is now right with the world. Until it came to [...]

Byline: Nick Goodway TWO major US banks handed over a total of $1.86 billion (PS1.14 billion) to American authorities last night in the continuing saga over mortgages which cost taxpayers [...]

THERE'S some serious jockeying for position going on at the BBC. After eight years as the Beeb's business editor, Robert Peston is hopping across the floor to replace Stephanie Flanders [...]

Byline: Ben Chu THE world's most powerful central bankers are preparing to impose themselves on the financial sector interest rate reporting framework in response to the Libor scandal. The Bank [...]