Nils Pratley
latest news & developmentsBP dividend: To pay or not to pay?
The more it says it can cope with whatever penalties are imposed on it, the more US politicians are entitled to ask whether they are high enough.
What does the war on Wall Street mean for the big banks?
More details please. On Thursday President Obama declared war on Wall Street — but what would victory look like?
Not much can be done for taxpayers who face being fleeced
It was a bad plan — but it was a plan. The refusal of the US House of Representatives to back Hank Paulson’s bail out takes us into new territory.
Day the time bombs went off
If this is the death of Wall Street as we know it, the tombstone will read: killed by complexity.
UK govt bails out bank
You might have expected Northern Rock to sound apologetic as queues formed outside its branches and its website was overwhelmed. Here is a bank that lent aggressively and tried…