Link executive pay to wider societal benefits on February 20, 2017The biggest way in which executives can take from society is not by paying themselves too much. It’s by coasting and failing to create value for wider society. The level of pay attracts most public anger. It is easy to understand why – the average FTSE 100 chief executive is paid £5m, 178 times more […]
Angry about Trump tearing up US customer protection laws? UK banks never had them in the first place on February 19, 2017Last week marked 10 years since the onset of the 2007-2009 financial crisis – a time to pause to consider what has actually changed since the great banking crash. More than any other bank, RBS is the poster child of the UK crash. It was, in 2007, the largest bank in the world, swallowing ABN-Amro […]