{"id":30005,"date":"2012-07-10T03:27:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T07:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=30005"},"modified":"2012-07-10T03:28:40","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T07:28:40","slug":"finance-industrys-multimillion-pound-lobbying-budget-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2012\/finance-industrys-multimillion-pound-lobbying-budget-revealed.html","title":{"rendered":"Finance industry&#8217;s multimillion-pound lobbying budget revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; The British financial services industry spent \u00a392m last year\u00a0lobbying\u00a0\u00adpoliticians and regulators in an &#8220;economic war of attrition&#8221; that has secured a string of policy victories.<\/p>\n<p>As the industry prepares to fight off renewed calls for root-and-branch reform in response to the Barclays rate-fixing scandal, an investigation by the\u00a0Bureau of Investigative Journalism\u00a0has revealed the firepower of the City&#8217;s lobbying machine, prompting concern that its scale and influence puts the interests of the wider economy in the shade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2012\/jul\/09\/finance-industry-lobbying-budget-revealed\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; The British financial services industry spent \u00a392m last year\u00a0lobbying\u00a0\u00adpoliticians and regulators in an &#8220;economic war of attrition&#8221; that has secured a string of policy victories. As the industry prepares to fight off renewed calls for root-and-branch reform in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30008,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30005\/revisions\/30008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}