PwC, Barclays auditor since 1896 will be replaced by KPMG in 2017, pre-empting EU rules designed to foster competition in the accounting market, forcing companies to switch auditor every 20 years. At the London Borough of Newham, PwC is currently

In his 2006 book Traders, Guns and Money the former banker and corporate treasurer Satyajit Das explains the central role that complex derivatives and financial products played in the global financial crisis. Over 340+ pages the author provides a dizzying

In his 2006 book Traders, Guns and Money the former banker and corporate treasurer Satyajit Das explains the central role that complex derivatives and financial products played in the global financial crisis. Over 340+ pages the author provides a dizzying

The Communities and Local Government Select Committee has announced an inquiry into LOBO loans to local authorities by Barclays and RBS on the back of Debt Resistance UK research featured in C4 Dispatches – ‘How Councils Blow Your Millions’.  The Communities

The Communities and Local Government Select Committee has announced an inquiry into LOBO loans to local authorities by Barclays and RBS on the back of Debt Resistance UK research featured in C4 Dispatches – ‘How Councils Blow Your Millions’.  The Communities

Debt Resistance UK (DRUK) are initiating a local authority debt audit campaign to demonstrate how the framework of local government finance has been co-opted to work in the interests of private banks, and not in the interests of taxpaying citizens

As many of us have observed over the past few years, local governments in America are caught in the pincers of rapidly rising pension and healthcare costs and stagnant tax revenues. The only “fixes” that don’t alienate vested interests or