This article from February 1975, is well worth a study and is still pertinent to the circumstances leading up to the crisis of recent years....

The crimes of Royal Bank of Scotland as described on this website . UK: PPI mis-selling - Estimated liability: £2.65 billion RBS has set...

You have been taught that we live in a democracy. There are laws and courts and jails for the criminals — and you were told that all cit...

Surely, the current banking crisis has exploded the myth about banks being able to create credit, i.e. money to lend out at interest, by...

Dealing with the conspiracists The oft-given explanation circulating around the internet is that banking originated from goldsmiths is...

Banking Myths The first banks were the merchants of ancient world that made loans to farmers and traders that carried goods between citi...

"I think that people have learned that money is not made in banks. It is made by real people working hard at real jobs. Actually, d...

Are the banks and greedy and incompetent bankers to blame for the current economic crisis? That’s what a lot of people think and what the ...

Speaking during his New York trip, Alex Salmond said HSBC "in many ways is the most Scottish bank in the world now. Founded by Scots, ...

Fred Goodwin had his knightship removed. Shall we see the same for Sir James Crosby and Lord Stevenson being stripped of their honours. Th...

Despite being fined for money-laundering for drug cartels and paying compensation for cheating customers over payment protection insurance ...

It appears that some still see a future in the banks to solve the problems of the recession - state-owned banks, of course. Alf Young of th...

It is no co-incidence that the cries for banking reform invariably comes during economic depressions. The lubrication that keeps the capita...

Glasgow branch is at present conducting a series of meetings on British banking so it maybe useful to add an international dimension. The Wo...