3 AUGUST 1991, page 24

Bcci — Losers Weepers

THIS was the week when the affair of the Bank of Credit and Commerce Interna- tional began to slide into farce. In New York, the district attorney conjured head- lines from the......

. . . Money Down The Drain

I HAD not thought of Mapp and Lucia as a handbook of municipal finance, but I now see where councils like Western Isles learned to borrow money in the market and re-lend it to......

City And Suburban

Recovery but, this time, there's no going back into debt CHRISTOPHER FILDES R ecovery? The City assumes it, the Chancellor proclaims it, the Confederation of British Industry......

Subliminal

CAN it be that John Major, the best public relations man the Standard Chartered Bank ever had, is giving his old firm a helping plug? There it was, plain to see, at the news......

Money Off The Screen .

I AM sad that Channel 4 cannot afford to keep Business Daily on the air. It was my cue for opining on Fridays — looming out of your television screen to call the Abbey National......