Archive: Barclays

Rebel banking inquiry: Let's pay back deficit in one go

Governments accross Europe are struggling with debt

One final round of quantitative easing should be used across Europe to clear government deficits, according to a rebel banking inquiry

Sketch: Bob hearts Barclays, but MPs don't give Diamond much love

Podcast: Banker-bashing reloaded

Partisanship unravelling parliament's banking inquiry

Cameron/Romney relationship off to bad start after Olympic row

Mitt Romney: Controversy started before he even boarded the plane

The relationship between David Cameron and Mitt Romney got off to a bad start today as the prime minister rebuked the Republican candidate for talking down the London Olympics.

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King 'gave Barclays revolver' to polish off Diamond

Mervyn King faced an unusually testing session before MPs

Mervyn King faces questions about his conduct after it emerged he privately pressured Barclays chairman Marcus Agius to force Bob Diamond's resignation.

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Cable adds to pressure against Diamond's £17m 'outrage'

Bob Diamond's payout is thought to be up to £17 million

Westminster has added its weight to the pressure on senior Barclays executives to resist Bob Diamond's £17 million 'golden parachute'.

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Podcast: Banker-bashing reloaded

The City of London faces intense hostility from the general public

Following Barclays' £290 million fine for fiddling the interbank lending rate Libor the search for answers from Westminster has begun. But where will this end up? Will the inquiry into wrongdoing in the banking sector change anything?

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Savage Commons debate appears to scupper Libor inquiry

Commons chamber debates the options for a banking inquiry

Government plans for a parliamentary inquiry into the Libor scandal seemed to be in deep trouble today, following a brutal Commons debate.

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Sketch: Bob hearts Barclays, but MPs don't give Diamond much love

A dash for the exit: Bob Diamond makes a break for freedom after his MP grilling

"Why are you so reluctant to tell us?" Andrew Tyrie asked Bob Diamond at the start of today's Treasury committee grilling. "I'm very suspicious," Tory Mark Garnier declared, three hours later. Nothing much had emerged in the interim.

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Nothing to lose? Diamond set to hit back in MP grilling

Barclays' £290m fine has triggered another massive scandal

Politicians, bankers and regulators are all bracing for Bob Diamond's potentially explosive evidence to the Commons' Treasury select committee this afternoon.

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Partisanship unravelling parliament's banking inquiry

Westminster could lose the opportunity to hold an inquiry into the banking scandal

Party politics is threatening to scupper the parliamentary inquiry into wrongdoing in the banking sector proposed by ministers yesterday.

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Don't bring down the banking inquiry

Party political squabbling is threatening the establishment of a major parliamentary inquiry - but this is too good an opportunity for MPs and peers to waste.

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