News

• Public Lecture "Bulgaria & The Eurozone - Where To Now?" - view poster >
• Gordon Kerr 22nd May 2013


• European Monthly Crisis Newsletter - May - read more >
• Colombatto, Dowd, Kerr 15th May 2013


• Cyprus bail-out: savers will be raided to save euro in future crises, says eurozone chief - read more >
• Bruno Waterfield 25th March 2013


• European Monthly Crisis Newsletter - March - read more >
• Colombatto, Dowd, Kerr 18th March 2013


• Gordon Kerr's OPED for Bloomberg on the urgent need for honest accounting by banks: - read more >
• Gordon Kerr 11th March 2013


• Negative interest rates idea floated - read more >
• by Bank's Paul Tucker 26th February 2013


• European Monthly Crisis Newsletter - January (in German) - read more >
• Colombatto, Dowd, Kerr 16th February 2013


• Bundesbank to pull gold from New York and Paris in watershed moment - read more >
• Ambrose Evans-Pritchard 15th January 2013


• At last, question time for the money printers - read more >
• Liam Halligan 13th January 2013


• Building a Sturdier Euro - read more >
• Wolfgang Schauble, 13th December 2012


• Gold Made Simple News, Nov 23 "Greek Economy Shrinks 40% in Year to November 2012- read more >
• Gordon Kerr, 23rd November 2012


• IMF calls for euro action to avert global catastrophe - read more >
• Bruno Waterfield, 10th October 2012


• UK Corporate Governance group, PIRC, estimate UK banks have £40bn in hidden losses on their books - read more >
• Philip Aldrick, 6th October 2012


• We should go further unbundling banks - Bank of England's Head of Financial Stability read more >
• Andrew Haldane 2nd October 2012


• Paul Volcker: ring-fencing banks is not enough - read more >
• Helia Ebrahimi, 23rd September 2012


• ECB in 'panic', say former chief economist Juergen Stark - read more >
• The Telegraph 22nd September 2012


• Yalman Onaran explains that deposit flight leaves Brussels only one option: federalised banking and sovereign debt union. - read more >
• Yalman Onaran 19th September 2012


• Bankers should behave at work as they do at home, says Archbishop Vincent Nichols - read more >
• John Bingham 17th September 2012


• The ECB as Monarch and Dictator - read more >
• Ken Pottinger 11th September 2012


• Bulgaria's Lesson for Euro-Skeptics - read more >
• WSJ Editorial 5th September 2012


• Bank of England's Executive Director of Financial Stability, Andy Haldane, on how the expansion of the rule book has not increased stability - read more >
• Andy Haldane 31st August 2012


• Cobden Partners' Ewen Stewart on Quantitative Easing, writing for "ThinkScotland" - read more >
• Ewen Stewart 23rd August 2012


• US Republican Party considers a return to the Gold Standard - read more >
• Robin Harding and Anna Fifield 23rd August 2012


• Liam Halligan reminds the reader that the much demanded state "Spending Boost" has been tried before, with disastrous consequences in the 1970s - read more >
• Liam Halligan 19th August 2012


• Christopher Booker opining that Germany will break up the euro - read more >
• Christopher Booker 19th August 2012


• Devaulation is no magical crisis solution - it is sovereign default by another name - read more >
• Gordon Kerr 5th July 2012


• Mojmir Hampl, of the Czech Central Bank, explains the impossibility of the cornerstone of the Basel 3 bank regulation basis - identifying SIFIs - read more >
• Mojmir Hampl 23rd June 2012


• UK and Europe languish in a 'zombie bank' malaise - read more >
• Liam Halligan 9th June 2012


• Kevin Dowd on Bulgaria's choices, DARIK newspaper (Russian Language) - part 1 > part 2 >
• Kevin Dowd 7th June 2012


• UK needs new accounting rules for banks - read more >
• Andrew Haldane, Bank of England's Head of Financial Stability 5th June 2012


• For the eurozone, the worst is yet to come - read more >
• Liam Halligan 26th May 2012


• Kevin Dowd and Gordon Kerr, on why devaluation is no solution to a nation's economic woes - read more >
• Gordon Kerr and Kevin Dowd, 11th May 2012


• ECB 'bazooka' not quick enough - read more >
• Mario Draghi, 25th April 2012


• Daniel Hannan on the deepening European divisions, - read more >
• Daniel Hannan, 24th April 2012


• Holland house prices drop to 15% below 2008 levels - read more >
• Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, 19th April 2012


• UK Corporate Governance group, PIRC, claim IFRS accounting standards obscure "true and fair" view of banks' accounts - read more >
• Jill Treanor, 18th April 2012


• Monetary activism caused the crisis and may cause a worse one later - read more >
• Steve Baker MP, 10th April 2012


• Brussels' blind faith in IFRS - read more >
• Syed Kamall, Conservative, London, European Parliament, 15th March 2012


• Letter from resigning head of equity derivatives at Goldman Sachs - read more >
• Greg Smith 14th March 2012


• U.K. Lawmaker Proposes Making Bank Directors Liable for Losses - read more >
• Simon Clark, 29th February 2012


• 1st Reading of the Financial Institutions (Reform) Bill - watch now >
• Steve Baker MP, 29th February 2012


• Bulgaria's "Capital Weekly" reports Cobden Partners' proposals to protect Bulgaria from the crisis engulfing the Eurozone - read more >
• Nickolay Stoyanov, 17th February 2012


• It's hard to account for flaws in the rule-book "City AM" - read more >
• Anthony J. Evans, 7th February 2012


• How banks get away with inventing profits - read more >
• Gordon Kerr, 20th January 2012


• Bank of England embraces Cobden Partners' message
• Bank of England official calls for bespoke accounting standards for banks - read more >
• Jill Treanor, 19th January 2012


• New bank accounting rules needed to avoid another crisis, says BoE's Haldane - read more >
• Louise Armitstead, 19th January 2012


• Detlev on Start the Week with Andrew Marr on BBC Radio Four - read more >
• Detlev Schlichter, 13th January 2012


• Cameron Proposals Won't Curb Executive Pay, Occupy London Says - read more >
• Katie Linsell, 10th January 2012


• Banks use accounting loopholes to inflate profits and bolster bonuses - read more >
• Jill Treanor 14th December 2011


• Osborne misses a great opportunity - read more >
• Allister Heath 30th November 2011


• Markets pricing in endgame for the euro, warns UBS - read more >
• Garry White 27th November 2011


• The Real Reason Britain Is Not Growing- read more >
• Daniel Hannan MEP 22nd November 2011


• Investors urge Vince Cable to rid accounting rules of profit distortion - read more >
• Louise Armitstead 15th November 2011


• Germany must decide if it wants the eurozone to survive or perish - read more >
• Liam Halligan 12th November 2011


• Lloyds Banking Group's culture saps the energy and enthusiasm of even the keenest staff - read more >
• Rob Brown 8th November 2011


• The eurozone crisis can't hide George Osborne's shortcomings for ever - read more >
• Fraser Nelson 4th November 2011


• Europe's future is coming into focus: hyperinflation -
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• Detlev Schlichter 27th October 2011


• Credit Easing in the UK - read more >
• Gordon Kerr 5th October 2011


• Operation Twisted Logic - read more >
• Detlev Schlichter 26th September 2011


• Ringfencing retail banks - just rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic - read more >
• Gordon Kerr 12th September 2011


• The shocks won't end with the summer - read more >
• Merryn Somerset Webb September 2011


• The Fed is very nearly bust and it is probably not alone amongst central banks - read more >
• Steve Baker MP 1st September 2011


• Buffett's $5 billion 'vote of confidence' in Bank of America - read more >
• Gordon Kerr 30th August 2011


• Forty Years of Paper Money - WSJ - read more >
• Detlev Schlichter 15th August 2011


• In this grave crisis, the world's leaders are terrifyingly out of their depth - read more >
• Peter Oborne 6th August 2011


• Has the financial crash finally settled the Hayek-Keynes debate? - read more >
• Daniel Hannan 22nd July 2011


• Speech on UK IMF contribution - read more >
• Steve Baker MP 7th July 2011


• The UK is facing a sovereign debt crisis - read more >
• Gordon Kerr 1st July 2011


• Bank profits distorted by IFRS accounting rules, says Bank of England Governor- read more >
• The Daily Telegraph 25th June 2011


• RBS ignores accusations of accounting shortfall - read more >
• Accountancy Age 17th June 2011


• Money Marketing on Cobden Partners' work on RBS Accounting Distortion - read more >
• Money Marketing 9th June 2011


• Forbes reports our work on RBS Accounting Distortion - read more >
• Forbes 9th June 2011


• IFRS critics see momentum gathering - read more >
• Accountancy Age 9th June 2011


• FT International - read more >
• Jamie Whyte 8th June 2011


• Royal Bank of Scotland told by MPs to explain £25bn accounting 'distortion' - read more >
• The Daily Telegraph 2nd June 2011


• MPs attack RBS's 'distorted' IFRS accounting -read more >
• Accountancy Age 2nd June 2011


• The Bank of England is failing this country - read more >
• The Telegraph 22nd May 2011


• Dissecting Three Aspects of the Euro-Zone Drama - read more >
• The Wall Street Journal 16th May 2011


• UK and Netherlands to sue Iceland over lost deposits - read more >
• BBC News 10th April 2011


• George Osborne must act before Britain is sucked into the euro whirlpool - read more >
• The Telegraph 8th April 2011


• We must call the bluff of the big, bad banks - read more >
• The Telegraph 8th April 2011


• Ireland's 5th Bailout Demonstrates that Bailouts Cannot Work - read more >
• Cobden Center 4th April 2011


• 'The Corporate Virtue of Bankers' "The Times", read more >
• Jamie Whyte 30th December 2010