Banking Weekly

In this week's podcast: How insurance companies are potentially providing banks with a new source of liquidity; the latest news from the Basel committee and contingent convertible capital otherwise known as 'cocos' and hybrid debt; JP Morgan results released on Friday and a look forward to other US bank results due at the end of this week. Presented by Patrick Jenkins with Sharlene Goff, Brooke Masters and Paul J Davies. Produced by LJ Filotrani

In this week's podcast: As banks prepare to pay out annual bonuses estimated to total as much as £7bn, we ask whether UK prime minister David Cameron's comments about not wanting to "micromanage" the financial sector, were prudent. We also look at UK bank lending to SMEs and we end the show with the new stress tests planned for US and European banks. Presented by Patrick Jenkins, with Sharlene Goff. Produced by LJ Filotrani

On this week's podcast: The last Banking Commission's road show and Barclays chief John Varley's suggestion that the era of free banking in the UK is at an end; more trouble for Spanish banks as JC Flowers pulls out of an investment deal with caja Banca Civica; George Osborne and his attempts to improve relations between the government and the City by not instating a new tax on bank bonuses or increasing the planned £2.5bn levy. Presented by Patrick Jenkins with Sharlene Goff and Megan Murphy. Produced by LJ Filotrani

In this week's podcast: We talk about cross-border clamp downs on insider trading, we take a punt at what might be revealed in this week's Banking Commission roadshow in the City, the last of 5 and we start with reaction to the EU €85bn bailout for Ireland. Presented by Patrick Jenkins, with Brooke Masters, Sharlene Goff and Jennifer Hughes in the studio. Produced by LJ Filotrani

How will the UK's banking commission and the Walker report change the UK’s banking sector? Plus Ireland - what can be done to avert an even deeper crisis? Presented by Patrick Jenkins, with Megan Murphy and Jennifer Hughes. Produced by LJ Filotrani

In this week's podcast: bankers' pay is again the focus of the regulators - but is cutting pay a risk any bank can take? And with banks surely facing liquidity issues, are they likely to cut down on long-term lending in preference of roll-over funding as suggested in a new McKinsey report. Lastly, Ireland's fiscal crisis - is the worst over, and where do Irish banks go from here? Presented by Megan Murphy with Patrick Jenkins, Brooke Masters and Anousha Sakoui. Produced by LJ Filotrani

On this week's podcast: The FSA and another high profile departure - Dave Strachan; the last of the European banks to report their results, Barclays; Basel III and its impact on trade finance and we end the show with a look at Nomura and potential acquisition targets in America. Presented by Megan Murphy with Patrick Jenkins, Sharlene Goff and Brooke Masters in the studio. Produced by LJ Filotrani

In this week's podcast: We talk about Lloyds and RBS ahead of announcements about their quarterly results, we look at movements in leadership in some of the big banks and we finish the show with a look at what came our of the hearing of the Committee of European Banking Supervisors held last week. Stateside is brought to you by Justin Baer. Presented by Patrick Jenkins with Sharlene Goff and Megan Murphy in the studio. Produced by LJ Filotrani

In this week's podcast: We look at the banks reactions to levy announced last week and at some of the potential issues the UK government is yet to address, we talk to Simon Bailey from consultancy company Logica about regulation and lessons learnt since 2008 and we take a look at how banks are going about raising the capital in order to fulfil regulations set out by Basel III. Stateside is brought to you by Justin Baer. Presented by Megan Murphy with Sharlene Goff and Anousha Sakoui in the studio and guest Simon Bailey, director of payments and transaction banking at Logica. Produced by LJ Filotrani

In this week's podcast: We talk about the proposed break-up of the Financial Services Authority with the consultation process drawing to a close today. We ask whether the issues of who is to be responsible for what will be cleared up. Then we look at the Financial Reporting Council's Stewardship Code - designed to ramp up investors' engagement with companies in the aftermath of the crisis. We end the show on the supposed exodus of bankers from London. We ask whether people are really heading for the doors. Stateside this week is by Justin Baer Presented by Megan Murphy with Brooke Masters and Miles Johnson Produced by LJ Filotrani

In this week's show: Richard Lambert of the CBI is calling for an end to banker bashing. Is it time to move on? After SocGen and Kerviel, have banking systems got better at spotting rogue traders? Bankers pay: will the restriction on bonuses create pay problems for European banks? Plus: US bank earnings in Stateside. Banking weekly is presented by Patrick Jenkins, with studio guests Megan Murphy, the FT's investment banking correspondent, and regulatory correspondent Brooke Masters; plus Francesco Guerrera, US business editor in New York. Produced by Rob Minto

The Swiss authorities have pushed up the capital requirements for their two biggest banks beyond Basel III - but will it create another set of problems? Can "too big to fail" ever be globally resolved? And can a compact between bankers and the public repair the sector's tarnished image? Also - Justin Baer reports from Wall Street in Stateside. Presented by Megan Murphy with Patrick Jenkins and Brooke Masters in London, and Justin Baer in New York Produced by Rob Minto and Fiona Scott

How has the shake-up at HSBC gone down with investors? The UK's banking commission has set out its stall - but what can it do? UniCredit is looking for a new chief executive - we discuss the options. Plus Stateside with Justin Baer: what will be the impact of the movie Wall Street 2? Presented by Patrick Jenkins; with Miles Johnson, Rachel Sanderson in Milan, and Justin Baer in New York. Produced by Rob Minto.

In this week’s podcast: We look at the predicted effect the UK immigration cap is likely to have on the vast numbers of non-EU workers employed in the City. We ask what this will mean for the big banks. We hear from our office in New York in our new weekly feature Stateside - with Justin Baer reporting back on the week’s top banking stories in America. We then look at securitisation, the state of Northern Rock and the plans that the Banking Commission has up its sleeve. Presented by Patrick Jenkins, with Sharlene Goff and Jennifer Hughes in the studio and Justin Baer in New York. Produced by LJ Filotrani

In this week's podcast: We discuss the impact the new capital rules announced yesterday in Basel will have, if any, on the banks of Europe. We then talk about Bob Diamond's new position as chief executive of Barclays - we ask whether the move to put an investment banker at the helm is a significant indicator of where the future of the bank lies. We hear from our New York office about a series of features running in the Financial Times to mark the bank mergers of 2008 following the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Lastly we talk about Stephen Green's decision to trade in his position as chairman of HSBC for a position as one of Cameron's ministers. Guest: Arturo de Frias - head of banks research for investment bank Evolution Securities In the studio: Brooke Masters the FT's chief regulations correspondent and Sharlene Goff, the FT's retail banks correspondent Report on the bank mergers of 2008 by Francesco Guerrera Presented by Patrick Jenkins Produced by LJ Filotrani