The City and the government hate FCA plans to name firms subject to investigation, something which is common in other areas, from audit to charity. The chancellor says financial services should be a special case - why?
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A fraud team the government promoted as a leading authority on tackling Covid loan misuse and boasted of making multiple arrests was in truth a council office in Essex with no right to claim it had policing powers, The Times can reveal.

With James Hurley

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Revealing snippet from Sunday Times biz section interview with Steven Bartlett. On the advice Barack Obama gave him…🧐

Five clubs for the Bundesliga in next season’s champions league confirmed by Dortmund win. Germany’s Product doing ok while also denied the vital “investment” of nation states/wealthy maniacs

💥Lord Tyrie, the former TSC chairman and a highly respected figure in financial services, defends the FCA in the row over the regulator’s plan to name and shame companies it is investigating thetimes.co.uk/article/city-g…

Keep investigations into financial firms secret until finished, said Hunt and many big firms agree, fearing public exposure of their transgressions But ex Treasury Committee chair disagrees bit.ly/3QrLUra of course naming seldom leads to any sign of shaming

100 points in their 100th year. Congratulations Hornchurch FC

Vote Count Binface and I will abolish VAR.

Several big City of London developments are mired in uncertainty amid Evergrande real estate problems in China and a slump in building company share prices in Hong Kong

Report with James Hurley

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'It is always ugly when prosecutors feed off sprats and back away from the gurning sharks.' Former director of public prosecutions Ken Macdonald KC on the Libor convictions
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Spot the three clubs which have been charged by the Premier League for a breach of Profitability and Sustainability Regulations.