Sir Mervyn King

  • 8 Aug 2012

    The UK’s economy is not expected to grow at all in 2012 and it will take an “Olympic” effort and hard work to battle the eurozone crisis, domestic deficit-cutting and tight credit conditions.

  • 17 Jul 2012

    Sir Mervyn King rejects suggestions that pressure was put on banks to misreport their lending rates, but admits pushing for Bob Diamond’s resignation as Barclays chief executive.

  • 3 Jul 2012

    Following the resignation of Bob Diamond in the midst of the bank lending scandal , Barclays releases a memo of a phone conversation between Mr Diamond and Bank of England Deputy Governor Paul Tucker.

  • 30 Jun 2012

    Ministers order an urgent review of the Libor bank rate after it emerged Barclays had tried to manipulate it. But Labour’s Ed Miliband calls for a full-scale independent inquiry into banking culture.

  • 29 Jun 2012

    As the Governor of the Bank of England launches a scathing attack on banks, Bob Diamond, the embattled chief executive of Barclays Bank, says he will not resign.

  • 26 Jun 2012

    RBS’s computer glitch just got more serious

    Sir Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, today used the continuing IT meltdown at RBS and NatWest to criticise the structure of the bailed-out banking group. He had stern words for RBS’s management, saying that the FSA should carry out a “full investigation” of the week-long computer problems.

  • 15 Jun 2012

    Plans for a multi-billion pound emergency bank funding scheme are the latest attempt to spark the UK’s economy – but will they work?

  • 7 Jun 2012

    Why has the Bank of England decided against printing more money despite a recession in Britain, an intensification of the eurocrisis and advice from the IMF that now is the time to act?

  • 3 May 2012

    Sir Mervyn King has urged the Government not to delay reforming the financial sector and admitted more should have been done to avert the banking crisis.

  • 15 Feb 2012

    Alongside increasing unemployment, there has also been a steady rise in the numbers of self-employed and part-time workers. Channel 4 News analyses the phenomenon.

  • 9 Feb 2012

    Three years on, is quantitative easing the way forward?

    It’s not just savers who can no longer live off paltry savings income. The retirement annuity industry has been hit by a fall of 20-30% in the annual income that pensioners will be obliged to live off for the rest of their lives.

  • 17 Nov 2011

    Europe’s central bankers spurn Cameron’s debt advice

    When David Cameron travels to Berlin to meet Chancellor Merkel, top of the agenda will be coaxing the European Central Bank in Frankfurt to act as last resort lender to the Eurozone’s troubled nations reports Economics Editor Faisal Islam.

  • 6 Oct 2011

    The Governor of the Bank of England Sir Mervyn King says this is the ‘biggest financial crisis’ the world has ever faced as the bank increases its quantitative easing programme to £275bn.