A group of pranksters gatecrashed an investment banking event at a Mayfair hotel to present Barclays with an award for "Innovation in Interest Rate Manipulation".


Footage has emerged of the activists striking at the Investment Banking Awards at the Sheraton Hotel in Mayfair, which they describe as the "Oscars of the financial world". "Some of the world's richest bankers have gathered to congratulate each other on devising ever more creative ways to make themselves obscene sums of money," reads the narrator in the video of the stunt released this morning. Two pranksters are seen taking to the stage at the event, hosted by BBC newsreader Peter Sissons, to hand out their own award for "Innovation in Interest Rate Manipulation" to Barclays....Read more here