Staging dawn raids in a blaze of publicity was always going to be high risk. And for Richard Alderman, the boss of the Serious Fraud Office, a taste for crime-fighting in the public eye has rebounded horribly, with his agency having to issue a grovelling apology to its masters in Government, as well as to businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, whose premises it busted – wrongly, as it now turns out.
Follow French on share tax, Mr Osborne
Monday, February 20th, 2012The London Stock Exchange is almost certainly heading for another Budget Day disappointment with its calls for the Chancellor to scrap stamp duty on share purchases.
Financial Freedom: Could your bright idea win you a cash prize?
Friday, February 10th, 2012Financial Mail on Sunday has launched a competition for women in prison and female ex-offenders with business ideas, the Fresh Start Award.
Glencore boss may have as much sense as money
Monday, February 6th, 2012Financial Mail on Sunday editor Lisa Buckingham on the Glencore/Xstrata merger, Facebook’s floatation and BAE.
‘What the big multiples might be able to swallow with a bit of bleating is murderous to a family-owned business with only one or two outlets’
Monday, January 23rd, 2012Lisa Buckingham on the plight of independent shops in the current economic climate.
Reveal this ‘green tax’ on fuel bills
Monday, January 16th, 2012Energy companies are adapting badly to their new role as the second most hated industry in Britain – after the banks. They have yet to understand the degree of antipathy felt by households forced to watch a growing portion of their disposable household income eaten up in energy bills.
Curb bosses’ excessive pay
Monday, January 9th, 2012Lisa Buckingham: As David Cameron and colleagues return from their festive break determined to ‘do something’ about excessive executive pay, the big investment banks will start unveiling bonuses showing they have paid not one jot of attention to concern about their role in a financial crisis whose legacy will endure for years.
Perhaps they have a point in Tent City
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012Whatever you think of the tents outside St Paul’s Cathedral, the Uncut protests and the Occupy Wall Street campaigners, they have focused attention on some of the iniquities and failings of our financial system.
