Tory donor charged in Puerto Rico bribery scheme
…former governor of Puerto Rico in a scheme to remove a senior bank ing regulator from his post. The charges brought by the US Department of…
Investors’ Chronicle: Domino’s Pizza, Travis Perkins, Direct Line
…of measuring maturity more difficult. In very simple terms, QE saw the Bank of England purchase UK long-term government bonds, financing them with newly…
Chris Gent fined £80,000 for trying his best
…are echoes here of the case against Ian Hannam, the ex JPMorgan bank er who in 2013 wore a £450,000 fine for market abuse. There…
Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan vow to deepen economic ties
…in Ukraine. The US deputy Treasury secretary met Turkish officials and Istanbul bank ers in June to warn them not to become a conduit for Russian…
A new era for women’s football
…footballers, but also for farsighted sponsors. Barclays, Visa and the UK challenger bank Starling all showed forward thinking in backing women’s football, particularly in…
Bank of England: Trussonomics could be costly for investors
…windfall taxes, making it unlikely she would copy the 1981 one-off bank levy imposed by her role model Margaret Thatcher. Truss is avowedly pro…
The Lex Newsletter: the prang’s the thang
…economic profile of that beautiful country is dreadful. But the European Central Bank has to prop up sovereign bond prices for political reasons. Expect the…
Victoria plc: we’re going to need a bigger boat
…began the following year, however. In 2012, Geoff Wilding, a former investment bank er from New Zealand, took the helm as executive chairman of the West…
Mortgage misery for millions following rate rise
…leads to surging bills for variable and fixed-rate mortgage borrowers. The Bank of England on Thursday raised its main interest rate by 0.5…
Britain has no good options as the threat of recession looms
…The writer is author of ‘Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through: The Surprising Story of the British Economy’ The Bank of England’s new forecasts…