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Publication: Guardian.co.uk - Business Blog

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Analysts' forecasts for Lloyds and RBS share prices may worry George Osborne | Jill Treanor

City analysts are predicting shares in the bailed-out banks will be trading well below breakeven prices over the next year Amid speculation that George Osborne is keen to kick off share sales in bailed-out Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland, ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Business Blog - May 21 2013]

Entities: Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, Stocks, George Osborne, Lloyds Banking Group Plc

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Aberdeen Asset Management Plc

How should a long-serving chief executive decide if it is time to go? | Jill Treanor

Martin Gilbert – boss of Aberdeen Asset Management for 27 years – may regret joking he'd stay until Ferguson quit Man U Martin Gilbert, one of the longest serving chief executives of any FTSE 100 company, found himself mulling over his longevity as ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Business Blog - May 20 2013]

Entities: Martin Gilbert, Aberdeen Asset Management Plc, FirstGroup plc, Sir Alex Ferguson, Emerging Markets

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Tax whistleblowers may be principled or greedy. It's good news either way

Leaked data transforms the tax debate so totally that revenue authorities should feel no compunction about paying for it Recent years have seen a trickle of whistleblowers from deep inside the secretive world of private wealth banking leaking data ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Business Blog - May 09 2013]

Entities: Whistle-Blower, Taxes, Bradley Birkenfeld, HSBC Private Bank, Lagarde List

First reported Apr 28 2013 - Updated Apr 28 2013 - 1 reports

Group of Eight

Austerity-hit G8 leaders must not allow charity to begin and end at home

Growth is an important measure in the fight against global poverty, but David Cameron is wrong if he thinks it is a panacea The last time Britain hosted the G8 summit was at Gleneagles in 2005. Tony Blair was prime minister, Gordon Brown chancellor, ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Business Blog - Apr 28 2013]

Entities: G8 Leaders, Group of Eight, David Cameron

First reported Apr 26 2013 - Updated Apr 27 2013 - 1 reports

Greece is right to expose German loans hypocrisy

As the Athens-Berlin spat intensifies, both sides must approach the eurozone crisis with humility or face dire consequences Greece forgets much of its history when it demands Germany repays loans made during the second world war. The foreign minister, ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Business Blog - Apr 26 2013]

Entities: Greece, Germany, Hypocrisy, Dimitris Avramopoulos, Athens

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

Verint Systems Inc

Co-op deal collapse denies retail banking sector another major player

Increased retail banking competition and a system that better serves the economy is needed to power UK's financial revival Wednesday saw the failure of Project Verde, the deal between the Co-operative bank and Lloyds, which would have introduced a ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Business Blog - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Retail Banking, Verint Systems Inc, Lloyds Banking Group Plc

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 24 2013 - 1 reports

Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC

Funding for lending won't solve SMEs' problems

Many businesses who want a more seismic shock to the banking system to get the wheels of the economy well and truly oiled – like government backing for the business bank When the Royal Bank of Scotland is under pressure to conserve its cash and shrink ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Business Blog - Apr 24 2013]

Entities: Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, Small And Medium Sized Enterprises, Bank of England

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

Clock ticking on Co-op bank branch deal | Jill Treanor

With the Brussels-imposed deadline looming, Lloyds must soon decide whether to give Co-op yet more time One of the first decisions António Horta-Osório made on becoming chief executive of Lloyds Banking Group in March 2011 was to kickstart the sale ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Business Blog - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Lloyds Banking Group Plc, António Horta-Osório, Mark Hoban, Deadline, Flotation

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

Scottish banknotes: the Treasury's symbolic hostage in the independence debate

The Treasury is releasing a critique of Alex Salmond's plans for a post-independence currency union between Edinburgh and London, raising doubts about Scotland's cherished home-grown banknotes As today's leader in the Herald points out , Scottish ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Business Blog - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: Bank of England, Scotland, Alistair Darling, UK Government

First reported Apr 03 2013 - Updated Apr 03 2013 - 1 reports

Lending to small business: don't blame the banks?

There was a 'significant' drop in credit demand from small companies in the first three months of 2013 It's now five years since Britain first dropped into recession and during that half decade there have been regular growls of complaint from small ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Business Blog - Apr 03 2013]

Entities: Small Businesses, Larry Elliott, Small Business Banking, Federation of Small Businesses

First reported Apr 03 2013 - Updated Apr 03 2013 - 1 reports

Barclays report cannot cure systemic ills of the banking industry

City lawyer Anthony Salz is certainly right in saying that there needs to be a culture change at Barclays – but saying something needs changing is a lot more difficult than effecting it Barclays put the pursuit of profits before the needs of its customers. ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Business Blog - Apr 03 2013]

Entities: Barclays PLC, Anthony Salz, John Varley, Larry Elliott

First reported Apr 02 2013 - Updated Apr 03 2013 - 1 reports

RBS's Bruce Van Saun tipped to move to bank's US business Citizens

Respected US banker expected to prepare Citizens for US stockmarket listing, with job at RBS going to Nathan Bostock Stephen Hester, the public face of Royal Bank of Scotland, is said to have convinced Bruce Van Saun to join him at the bailed out bank ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Business Blog - Apr 02 2013]

Entities: Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, Stephen Hester, Flotation, Lloyds Banking Group Plc

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...In one of those great ironies of the current constitutional settlement, the UKUK government is essentially arguing: "you get to keep your pound by keeping the union" . Scottish independence Banking Currencies Alistair Darling Alex Salmond Severin Carrell guardian.co...

Scottish banknotes: the Treasury's symbolic hostage in the independence debate [Published Guardian.co.uk - Business Blog - Apr 22 2013]

...face of Royal Bank of Scotland, is said to have convinced Bruce Van Saun to join him at the bailed out bank as finance director with the words: "How would you like to join me on the biggest turnaround on the planet?" It was the middle of 2009 and when US banker Van Saun arrived at a bank still teetering on the brink of collapse after the October 2008 taxpayer bailout...

RBS's Bruce Van Saun tipped to move to bank's US business Citizens [Published Guardian.co.uk - Business Blog - Apr 02 2013]

...Its report adds: "The primary obstacle to establishing PPPs for municipal projects is the perceived cost of money." Herein lies the problem...

Chancellor must take bold steps on public-private partnerships [Published Guardian.co.uk - Business Blog - Mar 20 2013]

...Andrea Enria, chairman of the EBA, said some of the differences could be accounted for by more explanation about the methodology being used. "But this is not enough. The remaining dispersion is significant and calls for further investigations and possibly policy solutions" he added. Quite...

Banks are still too clever for their regulators | Jill Treanor [Published Guardian.co.uk - Business Blog - Feb 26 2013]

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Analysts' forecasts for Lloyds and RBS share pr... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Business Blog - May 21 2013] City analysts are predicting shares in the bailed-out banks will be trading well below breakeven prices over the next year Amid speculation that George Osborne is keen to kick off share sales in bailed-out Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland, ...
How should a long-serving chief executive decid... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Business Blog - May 20 2013] Martin Gilbert – boss of Aberdeen Asset Management for 27 years – may regret joking he'd stay until Ferguson quit Man U Martin Gilbert, one of the longest serving chief executives of any FTSE 100 company, found himself mulling over his longevity as ...
Tax whistleblowers may be principled or greedy.... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Business Blog - May 09 2013] Leaked data transforms the tax debate so totally that revenue authorities should feel no compunction about paying for it Recent years have seen a trickle of whistleblowers from deep inside the secretive world of private wealth banking leaking data ...
Austerity-hit G8 leaders must not allow charity... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Business Blog - Apr 28 2013] Growth is an important measure in the fight against global poverty, but David Cameron is wrong if he thinks it is a panacea The last time Britain hosted the G8 summit was at Gleneagles in 2005. Tony Blair was prime minister, Gordon Brown chancellor, ...
Greece is right to expose German loans hypocrisy [Published Guardian.co.uk - Business Blog - Apr 26 2013] As the Athens-Berlin spat intensifies, both sides must approach the eurozone crisis with humility or face dire consequences Greece forgets much of its history when it demands Germany repays loans made during the second world war. The foreign minister, ...