Here’s a top bit of advice: keep your head down if you’re a Hounslow day trader. Always the default suspect with any flash crash caper, especially if the Americans have done their money. Next thing you know, you’re being carted off in your trackie bottoms.
Investors demand firms justify executive pay
Institutional investors are stepping up pressure on companies to take account of the “wider social context” when they award big increases in executive pay and annual bonuses.
Choosing investments for your children’s future
Each week we ask an expert for tips on how to invest £10,000. Today we start a new series — investments for children.
Watchdog sides with insurers on hospitals charging A&E patients
The state’s insurance watchdog has confirmed that the cost of health claims is being driven up by a government policy that allows hospitals to impose private patient charges on everyone with insurance — even when they end up on trollies because of overcrowding.
Travel insurance bolt-ons push up premiums
Your travel insurance may be about to get more expensive as insurers adapt their policies in the wake of the recent collapse of Monarch and the pilot rota fiasco at Ryanair.
City traders charged with forex rigging
American justice officials have charged three London-based City traders with conspiring to rig foreign exchange markets.
Widow’s mortgage repayments double
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Mortgage scandal shows we’d be better tracking the bankers
There is little reason to hope that this week’s showdown with the banks, when finance minister Paschal Donohoe takes them to task over the tracker mortgage scandal, will yield results. Previous encounters of this kind were nothing more than an excuse for the government to be…
Prepare for the big credit squeeze
Banks are set to withdraw the most competitive credit card rates and other deals, so act now
Irish banks told to come clean over tax havens
Revelations that AIB was involved in assisting clients in avoiding tax through offshore tax havens have been described as “deeply disturbing”.