We’re approaching Victorian levels of inequality, and London’s more unequal than anywhere else in the country. Here, the richest 10 percent hold two thirds of...
Parliamentary Early Day Motion That this House notes with considerable anger the report in the Financial Times of 18 October 2011 that a commercial bank...
By Nicholas Shaxson New Statesman, 24 February 2011 There is an institution with a murky history and remarkable powers that acts like a political and...
The case for sweeping constitutional reform of the Corporation of London in the context of the proposals for a directly elected Mayor and Greater London...
The British financial services industry spent more than £92m last year lobbying politicians and regulators in an ‘economic war of attrition’ that has secured a string of policy victories.
One of the big challenges of international financial regulation is the existence of offshore financial centres. Concerns focus on money laundering, financing of terrorism and the hiding of fortunes of kleptocratic rulers.
A political safari of the City of London where experts explain how it all went wrong? Tom Meltzer finds it fascinating – and comes away with a bit more more sympathy for bankers.