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....

If you think the preceding post calls for a better type of bank and believe the Co-operative Bank, alas, you are mistaken. The difference i...

Blair Jenkins, chief executive of the Yes Scotland campaign, claimed that Scotland “might very well not have had a financial crisis” if it ...

Charities lost a protracted battle against the banks. The trustees savings banks which operated prior to 1986 had a tradition of charitabl...

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...

Glasgow branch have recorded a talk given by Vic Vanni Mp3 download available here

Scottish employees of Clydesdale Bank face a large cut in take-home pay after the Glasgow-based institution said it will ask them to put 9...

“I get up in the morning crying and go to bed crying.You go in to work and you hope you won’t tear up. But somebody does, nearly every day.”...

The poorest people in Scotland are being penalised by unfair overdraft charges, according to a report by Citizens Advice Scotland. It said t...

One of the striking fetures of this crisis is the seeking out of scapegoats . And for the government the culprits are those bonus-greedy ban...

I read that David Lloyd, 62, was told he had terminal lung cancer in January 2006, his wife, Annette Edwards, contacted their bank, the Hal...

So much for government assurances of sympathetic treatment for mortagage arrears by the banks during this credit crunch and slump. The Finan...

Amanda Staveley , former girlfriend of Prince Andrew , is set to bag almost £40million in commission paid to her advisory firm, PCP Capital ...

From one of our comrade fellow bloggers Quoth Alistair Darling : "The Financial Services Authority has announced a further increase fr...

We read Northern Rock's former boss Adam Applegarth received a £750,000 pay-off when he left last December. Applegarth, who is 46, is ...

Bob Diamond, the US banker who runs Barclays' investment banking arm, has cemented his position as one of the highest paid bosses in a F...

BANK OF England governor Mervyn King used his now-famous meeting with the chief executives of the "big five" UK banks last Thursda...

Does every cloud have a silver lining ? Will falling house prices help those to get the first time buyers on the rung of the property ladder...

Fred Goodwin regained his place as the highest-paid executive at Royal Bank of Scotland last year after taking home £4.2 million. Goodwin...