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LONDON, April 4 (Reuters) - HSBC, Goldman Sachs , Morgan Stanley and Standard Chartered reported a widening in the gap between what they paid women and men in 2022, according to data reviewed by Reuters.

An Insolvency Service investigation established that Ihsan had made cash withdrawals of £24,342 before transferring the remainder of the money into companies controlled by a friend named Mahir Towid Ul Haque.

they are failing to deliver," said Ann Francke, CEO of the Chartered Management Institute. "Organisations think and say they're doing the right thing to advance gender equality in the workplace - but when it comes to taking action ...

HSBC - already one of the most unequal banks in Britain in terms of gender pay - reported a wider mean average gap for the year, disclosing women were paid 45.2% less than men. This was up from 44.9% the prior year.

'When the government introduced its assistance package earlier in the year, the total cost of that was about £16billion pounds, and since then our expectation about energy bills this winter is that they're going to be about £500 higher than expected,' he told Today.

Jonathan Houseman is a Black Country gangland figure who in 2019 hired a former heavyweight boxer named Brian McIntosh and his business associate Will Henry (brother of West End musical star Matt) to clear 1,000 tons of waste at a rubbish tip he owned in Halesowen.

Experts say that while the gender pay gap data is a blunt tool for measuring disparities - as it does not reflect gaps at the same level of seniority, for example - it can capture broad inequities and affect change.

Energy bosses have been summoned to a Number 10 crisis meeting amid warnings supply issues could cause blackouts - as Martin Lewis warned Britain faces a 'cataclysm' that 'risks lives' if bills more than double as expected.

Where pay gaps were further broken down by ethnicity, they showed the largest pay disparities were between Black and white employees.

The widest gap was Deutsche Bank's at 38.4%, though this narrowed slightly on the prior year.

As recently as December, attempts to crack down on fraud were falling on stony ground.

Just before Christmas, the aforementioned Lord Agnew wrote to BBB chairman Lord Smith of Kelvin questioning whether banks ‘are genuinely doing all they can to fight fraud'.

Another key error meant that checks to ensure that a single company was not illegally applying for multiple bounce-back loans were not put in place until June 2020, a month after the scheme was launched.

No one even bothered to check the names of applicants against the criminal database.

Instead, anyone with a firm registered at Companies House and a linked bank account (a demographic that includes every successful money launderer in the UK) could access tens of thousands of pounds.

Last month, Judge Cross made headlines by delivering a remarkable courtroom speech demanding an inquiry into the astonishing circumstances that resulted in the ringleaders of a violent crime gang getting their hands on £145,000 in Covid ‘bounce-back' cash.

The shambolic state of affairs recently prompted the resignation of Lord Agnew of Oulton, a successful businessman who was ‘minister for efficiency and transformation' in the Treasury and Cabinet Office.

Several of the ‘mule' accounts belonged to victims of a so-called ‘catfishing' romance fraud that the duo had simultaneously carried out, in which they pretended to be a woman online in order to ensnare middle-aged men. Akinneye got five years and six months for fraud and money laundering.

Most revolve around a simple fact: with the Government effectively guaranteeing loans, banks had little incentive to check that information applicants gave was correct or that they could afford to make repayments.

Since becoming a judge, he's also presided over trials involving, among other things, a one-armed child sex pervert caught by online ‘paedophile hunters', a cyclist who broke a pensioner's hip via ‘wanton and furious' riding, a concert pianist who spiked a female student's drink and then raped her, and a Britain's Got Talent star who ran a £300,000 Ponzi scheme.

Keith Morgan, former head of the British Business Bank (BBB), a quango that oversaw the scheme, wrote to Alok Sharma, then the minister responsible, two days before launch to warn that the scheme was ‘vulnerable to abuse by individuals and by participants in organised crime'.

‘The public are entitled to an explanation as to how these loans were obtained.' ‘The most basic of checks would have revealed the fraud,' Judge Cross remarked while sentencing Hussain to 15 years and Shafique to five.

David Clarke, the former chairman of the Fraud Advisory Panel, told MPs last year that a centralised bank data repository could have identified long-dormant company accounts that received government cash.