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Blog: Robert Peston

A Treasury-sponsored review has today recommended substantial reforms to the structure and behaviour of banks' and financial institutions' boards, to restrict the freedom and the incentives for senior executives to take reckless risks. Sir David Walker, who is a senior...

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The game of draughts is peculiarly calculated to fix the attention without straining it. DR SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-84)

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