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    • 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
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      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

    • Sunday, 19 February, 2017
      UK banks
      The trouble with ‘free’ banking for challenger lenders

      Until new players find a compelling customer offer the sector’s oligopoly will persist

    • Friday, 23 December, 2016
      US & Canadian companies
      Barclays’ gamble in holding out against a DoJ settlement

      The bank is saying it is back in control of its business, writes Philip Augar

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