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We must play the blame game over HBOS. How else will bankers learn?

Plus: the Viagra-Botox merger, and memories of Jim Slater

28 November 2015

9:00 AM

28 November 2015

9:00 AM

‘Everyone remembers the names of Applegarth of Northern Rock and Goodwin of RBS, but history may judge the HBOS men to have been the worst of the lot,’ I wrote four years ago. Judgment has arrived at last in a Bank of England report on the 2008 HBOS collapse — plus a second report, by Andrew Green QC, on the adequacy of investigations by the now-defunct Financial Services Authority.

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