Ben Martin
@Benjaminwmartin
Banking Editor of @thetimes Tweets, opinions my own. Email: [email protected]
The triple lock on state pensions should be scrapped after this parliament and employers should pay into workplace pensions even if their employees do not, according to a think tank calling for a sweeping overhaul of Britain’s retirement system thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
One of the best-known players in the London stock market is changing hands after the owner of Winterflood Securities agreed to sell the market-making firm for about £104 million thetimes.com/business-money…
Four former traders convicted of manipulating interest rate benchmarks are planning to follow Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo by seeking to clear their names thetimes.com/uk/law/article…
Full detail of the Supreme Court ruling that has cleared former traders Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo thetimes.com/business-money…
Quashing of rate rigging convictions potentially undermines the seven other successful prosecutions by the SFO in the Libor and Euribor scandal thetimes.com/uk/law/article…
Interview with Tom Hayes, who has won his decade-long fight to overturn his Libor rigging conviction: he says he forgives the judge who misdirected the jury and undermined the fairness of his trial; he's also considering suing former employer UBS thetimes.com/uk/law/article…
The crisis engulfing Argentex has intensified after the stricken currencies business, which fell victim to the market turmoil caused by President Trump’s tariffs, was forced to stop trading by the City regulator thetimes.com/business-money…
The once-troubled small business lender Funding Circle has fuelled investor hopes that a turnaround in its fortunes is picking up speed after the group reported a sharp increase in activity thetimes.com/business-money…
💥The stockpicker and philanthropist behind the Silchester fund management group has burnished his status as one of Britain’s top investors after taking home more than £40 million this year thetimes.com/business-money…
A day after the chancellor warned City rules had "gone too far in seeking to eliminate risk", the FCA head calls for a discussion on exactly how much risk we're willing to tolerate - interesting comments from Nikhil Rathi on the conundrum facing Britain thetimes.com/business-money…
A deep dive into the string of red flags missed by Barclays that meant it was caught in the fallout from one of Britain's biggest money-laundering scandals thetimes.com/business-money…
Barclays has become embroiled in the fallout from the Fowler Oldfield money laundering scandal as the bank was fined £39.3 million for failing to tackle financial crime risks in its dealings with a company owned by the socialite James Stunt thetimes.com/business-money…
ICYMI: Fears grow on competition in banking after TSB sale to Santander thetimes.com/business-money…
ICYMI: The City regulator has attempted to breathe new life into the stock market at a crunch moment for the chancellor by cutting red tape on fundraisings thetimes.com/business-money…
A $52 billion withdrawal by a single client at BlackRock has dealt a blow to the world’s biggest asset manager thetimes.com/business-money…
💥The architect of the ring-fencing rules for banks has warned ministers that it would be a “bad idea” to fundamentally weaken the regime after the chancellor set out plans to loosen what was the centrepiece of Britain’s post-crisis financial regulation thetimes.com/business-money…
I sat down for lunch with the CEO of Paragon Banking Group, one of the longest serving bosses on the stock market who revive the lender from the brink collapse in 2007 thetimes.com/business-money…
Spain’s Sabadell is to sell TSB, its UK arm, to its rival Santander for £2.65 billion in cash, beating Barclays which also submitted a formal bid. thetimes.com/business-money…
The fallout from one of the world’s biggest corruption scandals has engulfed Standard Chartered after liquidators involved in Malaysia’s 1MDB debacle sued the British bank for more than $2.7 billion thetimes.com/business-money…
Top scoop from my colleague @alexralph - The long-serving chief executive of AstraZeneca, Britain’s most valuable public company, would like to move the stock market listing to the United States, according to multiple sources thetimes.com/business-money…
