Wall Street

IMF plans radical bank tax to fund future bailouts

News Wed 21 Apr, AT 08:29

New levies could cost sector $2 trillion. But will they result in more risk-taking?

David Tepper

$2.5bn pay for the man with the brass balls

News Tue 22 Dec, AT 07:09

Hedge-funder David Tepper makes a fortune by taking US government at its word

Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Aminu Sanusi

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi starts a ‘bonfire of the bankers’ in Nigeria

News Thu 3 Sep, AT 13:56

How the 'Ben Bernanke of Nigeria' put his country's financial elite in the dock

US banks need $75bn in equity to survive

News Fri 8 May, AT 09:19

Stress tests show that 10 of the nation’s biggest banks failed the regulators’ stress tests and need another $74.6bn in equity

Barclays Bank

Barclays bank celebrates sharp rise in profits

News Thu 7 May, AT 10:30

The high street giant reassures the market by announcing a 15 per cent jump in profits in the first quarter of 2009

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