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By Ian Fraser Published: Sunday Herald Date: 29 March 2015 Note: This is an unedited version of the article that was published in the Sunday Herald on 29 March 2015. This draft dates from 20 Mar...

https://www.ianfraser.org/breakthrough-in-rbs-shareholder-trial-as-judge-orders-bank-to-produce-freds-private-mails/

October 8th, 2012 On Thursday, October 4th, The Banker’s Investment Banking Awards 2012, a black-tie do in the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel, were successfully gatecrashed by a group of activists ...

https://www.ianfraser.org/the-banker-awards-2012/

September 7th, 2012 When David Cameron reshuffled his cabinet earlier this week, the arrival of a trio City of London bankers and consultants at Her Majesty’s Treasury went almost unnoticed. Th...

https://www.ianfraser.org/dear-david-cameron-entrusting-economic-policy-to-ex-investment-bankers-is-no-solution/

August 11th, 2012 According to a Reuters report earlier, Standard Chartered is this weekend in talks with US regulators with a view to reaching a carefully choreographed settlement along similar ...

https://www.ianfraser.org/benjamin-lawsky-were-banking-on-you/

July 18th, 2012 Senator Carl Levin has given an ultimatum to HSBC, after a lax approach to money-laundering for drugs cartels and terrorist groups saw the banking giant fail to review thousands o...

https://www.ianfraser.org/levin-to-hsbc-shape-up-or-leave-the-united-states/

July 16th, 2012 Another great piece of subversive art by William Banzai 7

https://www.ianfraser.org/the-physical-impossibility-of-failure-in-the-mind-of-the-too-big-to-fail/

By Ian Fraser Published: Signet Magazine Date: July 16th, 2012 (minor edits March 28th, 2013) Scottish banking was once renowned for prudential management. Today the association is rather differe...

https://www.ianfraser.org/loss-of-trust/

July 8th, 2012 The eventual outcome of the global Libor rigging scandal is impossible to call at this stage. There is a body of opinion that it might end up being a storm in a teacup (sounds fami...

https://www.ianfraser.org/do-big-banks-need-worry-about-being-found-out-over-libor/

June 29th, 2012 I just love this one. Apologies in advance to the sensitive, in case you’re offended by the repeated use of a certain word. It was made using Xtranormal h/t Anat Admati, profess...

https://www.ianfraser.org/youre-telling-me-that-ben-bernanke-is-full-of-st-how-securitizations-work/

February 27th, 2010 (updated June 22nd, 2012) HBOS’s entrance on The Mound; Image: The We Lessons must be learnt from the short and calamitous history of HBOS, the bank which effectively went b...

https://www.ianfraser.org/the-worst-bank-in-the-world-hboss-calamitous-seven-year-life/