Financial crisis
MPs seek to avoid race to the bottom in post-Brexit City regulation
New subcommittee will scrutinise plans to change how watchdogs supervise the UK’s financial sector
Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent
22, Jun, 2022 @11:01 PM
UK’s largest lenders no longer ‘too big to fail’, says Bank of England
Assessment finds customers could access accounts despite any collapse but three banks have shortcomings
Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent
10, Jun, 2022 @8:40 AM
NatWest returns to majority private control as it buys back £1.2bn in shares
UK government sells more of stake in group formerly known as Royal Bank of Scotland at a loss over 2008 price
Jasper Jolly
28, Mar, 2022 @2:42 PM
Only 6% of G20 pandemic recovery spending ‘green’, analysis finds
Analysis of the G20 fiscal stimulus spending counters many countries pledges to ‘build back better’
Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent
02, Mar, 2022 @4:00 PM
Crypto assets market ‘poses threat to global financial stability’
International watchdog highlights stablecoins as particular concern in absence of regulation
Jenn Selby
16, Feb, 2022 @5:54 PM
NatWest: the bailed-out bank that’s become an economic bellwether
The high street lender may soon no longer be majority state-owned: and its fortunes are key to the wider UK economy
Nils Pratley
13, Feb, 2022 @12:05 AM
Paul Myners, ‘tower of strength’ in financial crisis, dies aged 73
Former Labour minister, City grandee and chair of Guardian Media Group, hailed by Gordon Brown
Richard Partington
16, Jan, 2022 @3:07 PM
Five economic flashpoints to beware in 2022
From a new Covid variant to rampant inflation, the global economy faces some daunting risks in the new year
Larry Elliott
28, Dec, 2021 @2:52 PM
A post-Covid New Deal can restore economic hope in 2022 | Larry Elliott
Roosevelt built back better after the depression by taxing the rich, introducing capital controls and altering the balance between labour and capital
Larry Elliott
26, Dec, 2021 @12:48 PM
UK plc risks long-term stagnation and rising destitution, warns top thinktank
NIESR blames deepening malaise on economic mismanagement since 2008 amid criticism for BoE and Brexit
Phillip Inman
09, Nov, 2021 @5:33 PM
The 2009 financial crisis taught us hard lessons. Have Democrats learned them? | David Sirota and Alex Gibney
The political meltdown of a decade ago crushed faith in hope and change, and led to Maga and mayhem
David Sirota and Alex Gibney
28, Oct, 2021 @10:37 AM
IMF says Covid support has left world open to new financial crisis
Investors increasingly worried about rising infections and weak recovery in poor countries, report warns
Larry Elliott
12, Oct, 2021 @2:56 PM
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