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August/September 2010 Regulars: Content
Moral Morass SIMON THOMPSON watches two top regulators wrestle with definitions of acceptable banking behaviour.
News round-up Trends, views and happenings in banking and financial services.
Is it guaranteed? ALEX INNES of Semple Fraser examines the pitfalls as banks increasingly rely on guarantees to support the main security.*
Banks beware! A tougher approach by HMRC is forcing banks to declare more liquidations, warns DAVID HUNTER of Campbell Dallas.*
"We don't do ethics" That's what the FSA used to say. ROGER STEARE is plesantly surprised that they've changed their mind.
Sponsor’s drama How far are you bound by a predecessor’s informal undertakings? That’s ROBERT SOUSTER’S ethical challenge.
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