HBOS
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How service gave way to sales at the Bank of Scotland
When did Bank of Scotland begin the change from a predominantly service culture to one being predominantly driven by sales? In HUBRIS, I acknowledge that it was starting before the merger with Halifax, but new light has been shed by a reader – a former senior HR executive in the Bank, who dates it from
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Incompetence brought down HBOS, Crosby admits
What is the significance of the aggression with which the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards went for ex-HBOS chief executive James Crosby?
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The FSA can’t be allowed to get away with this
Am I just too cynical? The Independent confirms what I have been told, that the Financial Services Authority’s report into its own policing of HBOS before the crash will not appear before next summer. By then it will be five years and more after some of the crucial events and too late. The FSA will be
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Up or down? Crosby bails out of Edinburgh property market.
James Crosby, the man who bailed out as Chief Executive of HBOS in 2006 – two years before the crash – seems to be about to bail out of the Edinburgh property market too, although on this occasion his timing does not look so fortuitous.