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Alan and Margaret thought they were the only people in the world to fall for a financial product misold to them by a bank. It wasn’t until they met hundreds of other victims on-line that their lives began to recover hope. Jon Snow reports on the campaign against mis-selling in tonight’s Dispatches.
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Three years after the global financial crisis and the virtual implosion of the British banking system, Jon Snow asks why no bankers have yet been prosecuted.
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A financier whom I know calls me over the weekend about the Irish financial crisis. “Jon”, he says, “I trust you know that 80 per cent of the Irish banking crisis was caused by a handful of property developers taking massive punts on the housing and construction market?”
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Alexis Stenfors, a 39-year-old trader who lost Merrill Lynch millions and then tried to cover his tracks, is an every day story of the complete Alice-in-Wonderland world in which the 2008 crash was engineered, writes Jon Snow.
The FSA has issued a remarkable detailed account of a phone call by Tim Geithner, then head of the US Federal Reserve, to the FSA chairman about an embryonic attempt by Barclays to buy pre-bankruptcy Lehman Brothers, writes Faisal Islam.
