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Wyelands Bank PLC

  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    Financier Jay Hambro fined over Wyelands Bank failings

    PRA censures former chief investment officer for failings while on the board of Sanjeev Gupta’s lender

    Jay Hambro
  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
    PwC
    PwC fined £2.9mn for audit failures at Sanjeev Gupta’s former bank

    Big Four firm admits it failed to recognise risks posed by bank’s loans to steel magnate’s wider business empire

    A woman passes the premises of PwC
  • Thursday, 11 January, 2024
    BoE fines former chief of Wyelands for ‘multiple’ failings

    Prudential Regulation Authority’s penalty comes after it censured lender owned by steel magnate Sanjeev Gupta

    Wyelands Bank’s home page on a computer screen
  • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
    Gupta’s Wyelands Bank censured by BoE for regulatory failings

    Lender criticised for over-reliance on companies related to steel magnate’s now struggling empire

    The Wyelands Bank homepage on a computer
  • Tuesday, 21 February, 2023
    Prateek Gupta
    Mauritian regulators examine bank in wake of Trafigura nickel fraud

    Silver Bank’s shareholder has ties to alleged fraudster Prateek Gupta

    Scenic view of Port Louis, Mauritius
  • Thursday, 17 February, 2022
    Sanjeev Gupta
    GFG routed transactions through Sanjeev Gupta’s Romanian bank

    Metals magnate used BRCI for payments including carbon credits sale that prompted outcry from Czech politicians

    Sanjeev Gupta
  • Tuesday, 8 February, 2022
    Sanjeev Gupta’s Wyelands Bank says it has ‘no viable future’

    Virtually all loans now in default at bank owned by industrialist under fraud probe

    Homepage of Wyelands Bank website
  • Saturday, 31 July, 2021
    FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
    Jay Hambro, the ‘ultimate salesman’ behind Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG

    Metal magnate’s deeply connected right-hand man opened doors to politicians and global banks

    Jay Hambro, GFG Alliance, the Alvance Aluminum Group plant, operated by GFG Alliance Ltd, in Dunkerque, Fran
  • Tuesday, 29 June, 2021
    Wyelands ‘extremely unlikely’ to find buyer, says bank chief

    MPs hear that future of lender in doubt after Gupta refuses to inject cash for relaunch

    Wyelands Bank homepage
  • Monday, 28 June, 2021
    Greensill Capital
    UK accounting watchdog launches probe into Greensill audit

    FRC is also investigating audit of Sanjeev Gupta’s Wyelands Bank

    Greensill offices near Warrington, England
  • Monday, 24 May, 2021
    FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
    National Crime Agency involved in Gupta bank probe, BoE governor says

    Andrew Bailey tells MPs the NCA was informed of investigation over concerns about transactions with ‘certain parties’

    Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England
  • Monday, 24 May, 2021
    FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
    Italian bank collapses on exposure to Greensill and GFG

    Aigis Banca was ordered into liquidation by the Bank of Italy, with its assets transferred to a rival

    FT montage of Greensill, GFG and Aigis logos
  • Thursday, 13 May, 2021
    FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
    Sanjeev Gupta’s Wyelands Bank teeters under weight of bad debt

    Regulators forced lender to repay hundreds of millions of pounds to depositors

    Sanjeev Gupta
  • Wednesday, 28 April, 2021
    FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
    The tiny audit firm that signs off Sanjeev Gupta’s empire

    Based over a row of shops, King & King audits more than 60 of the steel magnate’s companies

    Montage of GFG Alliance and King & King logos
  • Friday, 23 April, 2021
    FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
    Invoices to ‘Friends of Sanjeev’ underpinned Greensill loans

    Bulk of business at Gupta’s Liberty Commodities was from trades within the company or with close associates

    Sanjeev Gupta
  • Friday, 26 March, 2021
    FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
    Sanjeev Gupta explored setting up bank in Panama

    Metals magnate sought help from law firm Mossack Fonseca over establishing offshore lender

  • Friday, 19 March, 2021
    FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
    How Sanjeev Gupta lived large on the back of rickety financing

    Mansion is latest purchase by ‘saviour of steel’ whose empire received taxpayer loans

  • Tuesday, 16 March, 2021
    Greensill Capital
    Greensill financed Gupta based on invoices from ‘friends of Sanjeev’

    Collapsed firm provided loans on the back of bills from companies with links to steel magnate

  • Friday, 31 July, 2020
    Sanjeev Gupta’s bank faces potential losses over failed commodities trader

    Wyelands provided funding to collapsed trading firm Phoenix Commodities

    Sanjeev Gupta has previously said lending by Wyelands would be used to help promote a revival of British industry by supporting small and medium-sized businesses
  • Friday, 28 February, 2020
    Wyelands Bank launches review after regulatory probe

    Bank owned by Sanjeev Gupta may have breached rules on lending to ‘connected entities’

    Sanjeev Gupta, executive chairman of Liberty House Group, poses for a photograph in Sydney, Australia, on Monday, March 26, 2018. The British conglomerate tycoon may build up to 10 gigawatts of renewable energy in Australia, including battery storage that could help power steel mills and aluminium smelters. Photographer: Brendon Thorne/Bloomberg
  • Monday, 24 February, 2020
    News in-depthSanjeev Gupta
    Sanjeev Gupta draws scrutiny over Wyelands Bank loans

    Links between UK lender and funding of owner’s empire come under spotlight 

  • Saturday, 10 August, 2019
    Sanjeev Gupta’s bank buys GFG Alliance’s Mayfair office

    Challenger bank pays £64m for building whose main tenant is its owner’s family business

    Sanjeev Gupta, executive chairman of Liberty House Group, poses for a photograph in Sydney, Australia, on Monday, March 26, 2018. The British conglomerate tycoon may build up to 10 gigawatts of renewable energy in Australia, including battery storage that could help power steel mills and aluminium smelters. Photographer: Brendon Thorne/Bloomberg
  • Friday, 26 July, 2019
    News in-depthSanjeev Gupta
    Sanjeev Gupta: the industrialist in a hurry

    The rapid expansion of his metals empire has won acclaim, but also drawn scrutiny

    Commission for Work and Careers Sanjeev Gupta, CEO of Liberty House Group, at Liberty Steel Dalzell steelworks in Motherwell, Scotland, on 28 September 2016.
  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2019
    Sanjeev Gupta
    Extensive ties found between Sanjeev Gupta bank and business empire

    Wyelands filings raise questions about how lender deploys savers’ deposits

    Sanjeev Gupta, executive chairman of Liberty House Group, poses for a photograph in Sydney, Australia, on Monday, March 26, 2018. The British conglomerate tycoon may build up to 10 gigawatts of renewable energy in Australia, including battery storage that could help power steel mills and aluminium smelters. Photographer: Brendon Thorne/Bloomberg
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