How incredibly depressing that Wonga, the payday lender that specialises in short-term loans with interest rates of up to about 4,000 per cent a year, claims to have been inundated with requests from small businesses for advances, even at these exorbitant rates.
Fund bosses must treat us with respect
Monday, May 7th, 2012Lisa Buckingham: While some of the big funds have hauled themselves into activity, most still fail to consult their customers – you and me, the people who trust them with our savings – and often refuse to tell us whether they have bothered to vote at Annual General Meetings, and if they did so, how.
We back the campaign to find jobs for leavers
Friday, April 27th, 2012Financial Freedom, Financial Mail’s newsletter for women leaving prison, is throwing its weight behind efforts to provide job and business opportunities for prison leavers.
The Interview: Head of the CBI and Centrica Sir Roger Carr
Monday, April 16th, 2012A powerful view on Britain’s business standards from one of its top bosses. Roger Carr talks exclusively to Lisa Buckingham about all the hot topics, from executive pay to women in the boardrom.
Pay power ‘will paralyse boardrooms’
Sunday, April 15th, 2012Coalition plans to control boardroom pay could hand too much power to maverick shareholders and will prove intolerable to boardrooms and investors, warns Confederation of British Industry president Sir Roger Carr.
We need more women filling middle ranks
Monday, March 12th, 2012There will be backslapping over the appointment of more women to the boards of British companies when Cranfield University’s FTSE Female index on Tuesday shows that in the year since Lord Davies published his report, the proportion of women directors has risen from 12.5 per cent to about 15 per cent.
George Osborne needs a convincing strategy for the Budget
Sunday, March 11th, 2012George Osborne may find it hard to resist giving his rather irritating smirk a little outing during the Budget speech next week.
Bob Diamond has truly lost his grip on reality
Monday, March 5th, 2012Earth calling Bob Diamond! Whatever planet the Barclays boss is on, he now appears so out of kilter with public opinion that it is not off beam to question whether he is becoming a liability for the bank and its shareholders. Diamond can hardly claim to be unaware of the £300m ruse the Revenue called ‘abusive’
