The passage of US healthcare reform has given the Obama administration a pick-me-up, and financial reform could benefit – for the sake of the system, sooner is better

Last week I unveiled the coalition government’s proposals for the most radical reform of the electricity market since privatisation in the 1980s. The plans set out in the White Paper aim to keep the UK’s lights on and consumer bills down and shift the economy away from a high-risk, high-carbon future. With a quarter of

Gordon Brown has renewed his call for reform of the international financial system, saying it is needed to end the current economic crisis.

Republicans signalled that they would take the fight over financial regulation reform to the Senate floor after deciding that talks aimed at reaching a bipartisan deal had failed.

Reform of the global financial system. Who could disagree with that, especially in times like these? To call for a new Bretton Woods conference, though, is the easy bit. It's a call that makes a politician sound statesmanlike, far-sighted, influential — even visionary. And it is not necessarily an insincere or selfishly motivated call either. In troubled times most political leaders wan...

George Osborne wants reassurance that there will be no backsliding from the agreement to overhaul Europe's system of financial supervision amid concern from diplomats of text refinements

Greek leaders failed on yesterday (8 February) to agree on a reform and austerity programme, the price of a financial bailout to avoid a messy default, forcing Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos to go to the country's financial backers with an incomplete deal. More »

The G20 summit is an important opportunity to 'repair and reform' the financial system for the future Alistair Darling the Chancellor has told the Financial Services Authority.

Gordon Brown on City reform (BBC): Gordon Brown has pledged to “clean up” the financial system following the rescue of Britain’s biggest mortgage lender HBOS by Lloyds TSB. The prime minister said he had taken “quick action” to “maintain the stability of the financial system”. But he also had plans to tackle “irresponsible behaviour” by banks

Lessons have to be learned by bankers, not just politicians, chancellor warns Next week's G20 summit is an important opportunity to repair the financial system and "reform it for the future", Alistair Darling said today as he warned that lessons had to be learned by bankers as well as politicians. The chancellor said that the London gathering of world leaders was a chance to ensure that "we g...