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  • Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
    The best books of the week
    Our Lives in Their Portfolios — owners in the shadows

    It is hard not share Brett Christophers’ rage in this polemic against the greed and short-termism of the asset management industry

  • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
    Winfried Bischoff
    Win’s world

    “Who do you work for?”

  • Monday, 27 March, 2023
    Banks
    The latest bank failures show the dangers of aiming too high

    Both Credit Suisse and SVB fell victim to familiar pitfalls for ambitious lenders

  • Friday, 17 March, 2023
    UK banks
    HSBC and the City won this round — but hard work lies ahead

    Regulations put in place in the UK after the global financial crisis passed their first big test with the Silicon Valley Bank rescue

  • Friday, 6 January, 2023
    Banks
    Madcap Stonehouse scandal exposes 1970s banking’s corruptible underbelly

    Weak governance, complacent regulation and sloppy auditing are still at the root of corporate frauds 50 years later

  • Friday, 25 November, 2022
    Financial services
    ‘Big Bang 2’ reforms expose the City’s weaknesses

    The chancellor’s proposals are only a partial response to London’s financial decline

  • Friday, 16 September, 2022
    UK financial regulation
    The City and the Treasury have a difficult balancing act

    Sir Tom Scholar’s exit endangers institutional memory of how to handle a financial crisis — and the need for caution in deregulation

  • Wednesday, 2 June, 2021
    ReviewBusiness books
    Crossing Continents — a sparkling history of Standard Chartered

    Duncan Campbell-Smith’s authorised account is excellent, but focuses more on the bank’s colourful past than recent corporate failings

  • Tuesday, 30 March, 2021
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Built on a Lie — Neil Woodford’s fall from star stockpicker

    Owen Walker’s salutary tale about Britain’s best-known fund manager will invoke the ire of investors

  • Friday, 8 May, 2020
    UK universities
    The time is ripe to reform UK university finance

    Cutting tuition fees is no longer realistic, but there are other ways to better support vital courses

  • Monday, 6 April, 2020
    UK banks
    Banks must show they really can do ‘God’s work’

    Lenders need to put public before private interest or remain a pariah industry

  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2019
    UK universities
    Peers warn against advice urging cuts to tuition fees

    Review ‘completely missed the mark’ on preserving university research funding

  • Friday, 12 July, 2019
    Deutsche Bank AG
    Deutsche Bank’s retreat may not be the end of its equities story

    The experience of Barclays suggests the bank may one day seek to rebuild a full service

  • Thursday, 30 May, 2019
    News in-depthUK universities
    Augar review: how will it affect universities and students?

    First report on the UK’s post-school learning in half a century has wide implications

  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2019
    Education
    Call for £1bn to fix England’s further education system

    Augar review says government must close skills gaps and reduce tuition fees

  • Monday, 27 May, 2019
    UK universities
    Review of UK post-secondary education to recommend fee cut

    Augar review expected to back greater support for vocational and technical training

  • Monday, 13 May, 2019
    Student finance
    Martin Lewis: replace ‘misleading’ and ‘financially dangerous’ student loan statements

    Pressure grows on Student Loan Company to refocus on graduates’ expected repayments

  • Friday, 16 November, 2018
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Preventing moral hazard in Britain’s universities

    Students must be protected if higher education providers go bust

  • Saturday, 3 November, 2018
    Barclays Capital Inc
    Barclays’ new chairman should avoid repeating history

    Nigel Higgins takes over a bank torn over its mission and strategy

  • Monday, 12 February, 2018
    UK banks
    As a legal case looms, the past returns to haunt Barclays

    As UK prosecutors bring a new charge, the bank is in better shape than for years

  • Wednesday, 3 January, 2018
    US financial regulation
    A call for corporate boards to overturn the status quo

    It took the banking crisis of 2008 to expose the flaws of shareholder value

  • Monday, 6 November, 2017
    Investment research
    How Mifid II can rehabilitate sellside research

    Europe’s new investment market rules will focus on the economics of paid-for analysis

  • Wednesday, 21 June, 2017
    UK banks
    The Barclays case is rooted in the bank’s long-held ambitions

    We should look back to the 1980s and the dawn of its universal banking strategy

  • Friday, 14 April, 2017
    Corporate culture
    Corporate scandals demand boardroom shake-up

    An elite that resists change takes false comfort from familiar faces

  • Wednesday, 15 March, 2017
    UK banks
    Mark Carney has to set the highest standards for Britain’s banks

    Protecting Charlotte Hogg seems a lapse in judgment for the Bank of England governor

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