Alex Neil

Neil signs new Accies deal

Skysports.com (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008

Hamilton captain Alex Neil has signed a two-year extension to his contract with the SPL club.

Burning Issue: Should Alex Salmond go to the Middle East to fund Scottish public projects?

Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008

Yes ALEX NEIL SNP MSP and member of Holyrood's finance committee

Burning Issue: Should Alex Salmond go to the Middle East to fund Scottish public projects?

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008

Yes ALEX NEIL SNP MSP and member of Holyrood's finance committee

• Burning Issue: Should Alex Salmond go to the Middle East to fund Scottish public projects? - Scotsman.com

Alex Neil and the BOS Kirk

Stephen's Linlithgow Journal (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008

So Alex Neil is assembling the 'banking elders' to look at a possibly alternative to the Lloyds TSB takeover of the Bank of Scotland. Yet why is the SNP back bencher so determined to look at an alternative when the HBOS chairman is convinced last week's deal was the right thing to do. For starters one of the things he's claiming as a stength is a very strong and diverse wealth of business...

SNP backs plan to reform stamp duty in bid to 'defreeze' property market

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008

... plan at the next budget in the spring.The proposal will be put forward at the SNP conference by Alex Neil. The party is expected to back it at which point it will become policy. However, as stamp duty is a tax reserved to Westminster, the SNP is powerless to bring about a change in Scotland. Such a reform would have to be enacted by the UK Government.Neil said: "This will be...

Accies captain extends contract

BBC Sport (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008

Hamilton Accies captain Alex Neil signs a two-year contract extension with the SPL newcomers.

We'll stop you taking £1m HBOS bonus

Daily Express (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008

But yesterday SNP MSP Alex Neil described the payout due to Mr Hornby as “outrageous”.He said: “It is very clear to me that he has presided over the downfall of HBOS. He might not be entirely to blame – it would be unfair to say that – but clearly he was the captain of a sinking ship as far as allowing it to be taken over in what is very clearly becoming a bad deal for HBOS.”Mr Neil...

Has Tavish Got the Nats Rattled?

Stephen's Linlithgow Journal (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008

Looking around the blogosphere Tavish's call for tax cut such has really got their hackles up. Whether it's calling him a Tumshy and an eejit , asking him to stop havering or just to urge care . Even Alex Neil seems unwilling to admit that the government as like the people should find ways to tighten their belt in difficult financial times. While their Westminster business and energy...

More than able to ride out HBOS furore

Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008

... Andy Hornby laid the deal on Lloyds' door at Gresham Street, then that's too bad for them. If Alex Neil's "Save the Bank" consortium thinks it could make a go of a single Bank of Scotland minnow, then its grasp of the realities of the world's banking system as it now stands is woefully lacking. Although he is up for the strenuous effort the merger will require, Kane didn't look well...

HBOS: FTSE surges as Lloyds makes Scottish jobs pledge

The Herald (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008

... the full implications of the £12 billion takeover which will create a banking giant.First Minister Alex Salmond said it was clear Lloyds TSB were envisaging running the merged Bank of Scotland and TSB as single retail bank in Scotland, probably a subsidiary of the wider group, headquartered at The Mound and able to issue Scottish notes."There will be a headquarters but that leaves two big...

Portuguese nutmeg from Gilbert – and it’s 1-0 for the Arsenal

The Herald (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008

... Jim Spowart, the former head of HBOS's internet bank Intelligent Finance, is due to meet SNP MSP Alex Neil, a member of Holyrood's finance committee, next week.But there are signs they are struggling to be taken seriously by business heavyweights.One prominent Scottish financier who has sent his apologies is Aberdeen Asset Management chief Martin Gilbert.His pressing engagement? He...

HBOS: FTSE surges as Lloyds says big Scottish job cuts not inevitable

The Herald (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008

... the full implications of the £12 billion takeover which will create a banking giant.First Minister Alex Salmond said it was clear Lloyds TSB were envisaging running the merged Bank of Scotland and TSB as single retail bank in Scotland, probably a subsidiary of the wider group, headquartered at The Mound and able to issue Scottish notes."There will be a headquarters but that leaves two big...

HBOS: Lloyds boss says big Scottish job cuts not inevitable

The Herald (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008

... the full implications of the £12 billion takeover which will create a banking giant.First Minister Alex Salmond said it was clear Lloyds TSB were envisaging running the merged Bank of Scotland and TSB as single retail bank in Scotland, probably a subsidiary of the wider group, headquartered at The Mound and able to issue Scottish notes."There will be a headquarters but that leaves two big...

City cool on 'Brigadoon' carve-out of BOS

Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008

... telephone and internet banking arm.But, ahead of a meeting next week between the financiers and Alex Neil, an SNP MSP and member of Holyrood's finance committee, to discuss a possible plan for BOS, opinions are divided on whether the scheme is credible or a despairing pipe-dream.HBOS, unsurprisingly, is known to be scathingly dismissive in private of this banking nouvelle cuisine...

Top Scottish financiers plotting 'fantasy' counter-bid

The Herald (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008

A "good half-a-dozen" of Scotland's top financiers have agreed to take part in a meeting to discuss an audacious plot to hijack Lloyds TSB's agreed takeover of HBOS.The meeting was convened by Scottish nationalist MSP Alex Neil and Intelligent Finance founder Jim Spowart, who have been trying to persuade a group of top Scottish bankers to make a £6bn bid to buy out the Bank of Scotland...