Soundbites
Sun, 1 May 2011
"It is worrying how little financial awareness people under 30 have." Register or log in to read full article
Tue, 1 Mar 2011
"UK businesses are certainly not out of the woods yet."Mike Jervis, PwC, discusses insolvency rates Register or log in to read full article
Tue, 1 Feb 2011
"All the options for economic recovery in the UK are unpleasant."Stephen King, group chief economist, HSBC Register or log in to read full article
Sat, 1 Jan 2011
"The abolition of access to the electoral roll will lead to those people forgetting that they have a moral obligation to repay their debt." Register or log in to read full article
Wed, 1 Dec 2010
"As long as everyone hates us, it’s OK."An anonymous Whitehall architect of the spending review rates its success Register or log in to read full article
Mon, 1 Nov 2010
"The Financial Services Authority were a bunch of box tickers."Michael Wilson, former business editor at Sky News, delivers his verdict on financial regulation Register or log in to read full article
Fri, 1 Oct 2010
"Your company is one of only 127 in the UK legal services industry getting it right."An excerpt from a slightly inaccurate Plimsoll report on defunct law firm Halliwells, after it went into administration Register or log in to read full article
Wed, 1 Sep 2010
"We know we are not perfect. We are the leper colony to some, or carriers of bird flu to others. We are now, though, a little more popular than the English football team."British Bankers’ Association chief executive Angela Knight on banks’ popularity Register or log in to read full article
Sun, 1 Aug 2010
"We need to remember that in the UK it was not risky lending that caused the banking problems, it was banks’ inability to refinance their borrowings due to the shutdown of global financial markets."Michael Coogan, director general of the Council of Mortgage Lenders on banking reform Register or log in to read full article
Thu, 1 Jul 2010
"There is an old saying that a loan well closed is half collected. The credit industry did lose core competencies of closing it well and understanding the needs and requirements of the individual."Mark Thundercliffe, chief credit officer, HSBC Register or log in to read full article
Tue, 1 Jun 2010
If Labour lose, we’ll lose the generation of Blair, Brown and Prescott. In Prescott we had Westminster’s answer to Les Dawson; he looked like a National Express coach driver.Comedian and impressionist Rory Bremner on the (potential) end of an era. Register or log in to read full article
Sat, 1 May 2010
"Making an after-dinner speech is like being married to Joan Collins. You know what to do; the challenge is, how do you make it interesting?"An excerpt from Clive Anderson’s speech at the Finance and Leasing Association annual dinner. Register or log in to read full article
Thu, 1 Apr 2010
"Football needs to get its house in order. Borrowing is far too high. We can’t have a situation where a club like Portsmouth goes out of business – it would be a travesty. The Premier League is always looking at things like wage caps – but that would make the league less competitive."Dave Whelan, chairman of Wigan Athletic, on the precarious state of top flight football clubs. Register or log in to read full article
Mon, 1 Mar 2010
"Many claims now made under s78 (of the Consumer Credit Act 1974) may properly be regarded as unattractive and merely fishing for a case of unenforceability."Judge Waksman QC summarises many claims cases in a landmark High Court judgment. Register or log in to read full article
Mon, 1 Feb 2010
"Gordon Brown is, in fact, so boring that in the secret service his code name is Gordon Brown."HSBC chief economist Dennis Turner sums up the PM at the Asset Based Finance Association conference. Register or log in to read full article
Fri, 1 Jan 2010
"Regulators see lenders and intermediaries as the drug-dealers at the school gates of the mortgage market, enticing innocent consumers in and then getting them hooked."Matthew Wyles, chairman of the Council of Mortgage Lenders, tells the trade body’s annual conference that regulation is going too far. Register or log in to read full article
Tue, 1 Dec 2009
"Order for sale has been really important for us. That’s one of our real success stories with the private sector. In government we have limited legal resources for doing that kind of thing."Duncan Gilchrist, head of policy at the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission, on improving collections success Register or log in to read full article
Sun, 1 Nov 2009
"In the early days of this business you could just about get away with being pretty poor, but not any more."David Hosein, managing partner of OC&C Strategy Consultants, says debt buyers need to shape up. Register or log in to read full article
Thu, 1 Oct 2009
"Our figures provide more evidence of the high street banks’ support for small businesses. Structured term lending rose by £366m in June."David Dooks, statistics director at the British Bankers’ Association, defends bank lending to SMEs. Register or log in to read full article
Tue, 1 Sep 2009
"Lazy remuneration committees prefer to have the computer tell them the answer rather than exercise judgement, save that, unlike the computer of Carol Beer, the Little Britain character, this computer says "Yes".Treasury minister Lord Myners on bonus culture. Register or log in to read full article
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