Alistair Darling

Photograph: Junko Kimura/Getty images The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development today warned Alistair Darling that he could not afford pre-election giveaways, as official figures revealed that last month was the worst...

In this article: Tax, UK, China, Balance sheet, Recession, and Unemployment

...excessive bonuses were dismissed as 'window dressing' last night, as it emerged they would affect almost no one. Chancellor Alistair Darling said the Financial Services Authority would be given tough new powers to veto bankers' contracts if...

In this article: Financial Services Authority, Labour, Gordon Brown, Philip Hammond, and Britain

...to be given new powers to stop bankers receiving bonuses that "would cause instability" to the financial system, Chancellor Alistair Darling said in a newspaper interview Sunday. Speaking to the Sunday Telegraph he said banking needed to...

In this article: Financial Services Authority, Barclays, Lloyds, Goldman Sachs, Royal Bank of Scotland, and HSBC

...to tear up bankers' contracts to stop them receiving payments which could cause instability in the financial system, Chancellor Alistair Darling has said. A Financial Services Bill to be unveiled in Wednesday's Queen's Speech will allow...

In this article: Financial Services Authority, Barclays, Lloyds, Goldman Sachs, RBS, HSBC, UK, and London

...Association site. To read this article in full you must be registered with the site. Chancellor Alistair Darling blasted the SNP when he joined Labour's campaign in a crucial by-election. Mr Darling said Labour had made "the right...

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...Premium Content Subscription with the scotsman.com site. To read this article in full you must be registered with the site. ALISTAIR DARLING hit the Glasgow North East campaign trail with the message that Glasgow is not a priority for the...

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...Subscription with the Press Association site. To read this article in full you must be registered with the site. Chancellor Alistair Darling has insisted the idea of a global tax on financial transactions was still worth studying...

In this article: Tax, United States, All rights reserved, Timothy Geithner, and Gordon Brown

Chancellor Alistair Darling today urged the world's most powerful finance ministers to treat climate change with the same urgency they gave to the world economic turmoil. He issued his plea at the start of a meeting of G20 finance...

In this article: Climate change, St Andrews, Copenhagen, Mervyn King, Timothy Geithner, Bank of England, Ben Bernanke, and US

...plug on economic life-support packages as the global recovery is still fragile, British finance minister Alistair Darling told Reuters in an interview. Darling is hosting the third meeting of Group of 20 finance ministers and central...

In this article: Copenhagen, Climate change, International Monetary Fund, Scotland, and London

Alistair Darling will this week unveil plans to spend a further GBP30 billion of taxpayers' money buying shares in two of the country's biggest banks. By Robert Winnett, Deputy Political Editor Published: 7:00AM GMT 02 Nov 2009

In this article: RBS, Lloyds, Northern Rock, Liberal Democrats, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Cheltenham and Gloucester