Includes bibliographical references (p.309-313) and index

The crystal methodist: crisis at the co-op-- The long shadow of 9/11: global banking's slide to disaster-- International rescue: the Anglo-Saxon response-- International rescue: the European response-- An unchanging culture: banking after the crash-- Fixing the market: libor and interest-Rate Rigging-- The perils of global banking: money laundering-- Mis-selling in the high street: PPI and other scandals-- The enforcers: The struggle to create a new fiancial world-- Banking conundrums: five key questions.

Bad Banks is a gripping account of the problems and scandals that continue to bedevil the world's banking system some seven years after the credit crunch. It follows the fortunes and misfortunes of individual banks, from RBS to Lloyds. It exposes instances of mis-selling, money laundering, interest rate fixing and incompetence. And it considers the bigger picture: how the failings of the world's banking system are threatening to undermine our future economic security. Alex Brummer, the City Editor of the Daily Mail, has had access to all the major players, from HBOS' Andy Hornby, to former Governor of the Bank of England Sir Mervyn King, to the ex-Chief Executive of Barclays, Bob Diamond, to Lloyds' Antonio Horta-Osorio. His book is an insightful - and terrifying - account of institutions once renowned for their probity, but now all too often a byword for incompetence, and worse.