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24 Jan 2012

Irish government urged to stop 'zombie' bank payments

As Ireland prepares to pay the latest instalment on the debts run-up by 'zombie' bank Anglo Irish, UK debt campaigners are planning to protest.
21 Jan 2012

Occupy London publicly repossesses empty office block

Occupy London, itself battling eviction from outside St Paul's Cathedral, has repossessed Roman House, an abandoned financial services office building.
12 Jan 2012

Stonewall forget their radical roots (again)

Is there no limit to the number of exploitative and violent institutions that Stonewall is prepared to endorse? Having already made awards to the likes of Goldman Sachs and the Royal Navy, Stonewall yesterday gave prizes to Ernst & Young, Barclay’s and MI5 for their supposedly gay-friendly employment practices.
18 Nov 2011

Occupied UBS office complex will become a 'bank of ideas'

Occupy London has announced its takeover of a huge abandoned office block in the borough of Hackney belonging to controversial investment bank UBS.
16 Sep 2011

British Quakers and private schools

Much has been written today about Kweku Adoboli, the “rogue trader” who lost £1.3 billion of other people’s money. One fact that has received little attention is that he went to a Quaker school.
22 Aug 2011

Making finance ethical and sustainable

Many economic commentators, and those working in banking and finance, thought that the worst of the global economic recession had gone away. They were wrong. It looks to be back with a vengeance.
20 Jul 2011

Hacking scandal is about power, say Christian socialists

The Christian Socialist Movement has said that controversies over banking, phone hacking and MPs' expenses all show a failure to exercise power responsibly.
2 Mar 2011

Churches' agency examines 'just banking' and finance

Searching questions were raised about banks’ role in society in a new report by a UK-wide church-based research and advocacy group
4 Oct 2010

Huge bank funding gap demands radical economic alternatives, says NEF

The New Economics Foundation says Britain faces further economic chaos as banks come to terms with a £25 billion funding gap in 2011.
21 Jun 2010

World leaders should put poverty elimination first, says churches' chief

The World Council of Churches has called on world leaders to put impoverished people first, instead of making priorities of big banks and military expenditure.

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