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The UK’s regulatory maze benefits the powerful. It’s time for an overhaul
No fewer than 25 regulators deal with money laundering alone yet London is a major centre for dirty money, points out Prem Sikka.
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City of London held back by problems with EU climate policy
The City of London’s status as the world’s capital of carbon trading and finance is being undermined by Conservative MEPs.
Will the end of Quantitative Easing trigger a second crisis?
Something strange has been happening in stock markets since 2008: they have been going up. Not just up, but absolutely flying. Through the prolonged failed recovery, unemployment, an investment crisis, the Fukushima crisis and the EU debacle, Wall street, still the market all else look to, has doubled in value.
Banking reform isn’t the complete solution – it’s also about culture, culture, culture
Jonathan Orde of the Young Fabians explains that it's not all about banking reform - City culture needs to be tackled too.
Transforming the financial sector from a bad master to a good servant
Stephany Griffith-Jones presents the plan for reformation of the banking system to end the perpetual crisis of finance.
So who backs Lansley’s health reforms then?
"Some good news" for health secretary Andrew Lansley this morning: another group of people back his NHS reforms... the bankers! This brings the tally to three.