High-profile figures from the UK's financial press this afternoon join the lengthy list of witnesses to face the Treasury Committee in a hotly anticipated evidence session, as part of the continuing look into the causes and lessons of the banking crisis. Financial News live-blogs the developments.

The influential parliamentary committee will be interviewing BBC business editor Robert Peston, Financial Times editor Lionel Barber and Daily Mail City editor Alex Brummer, along with Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins and eleventh-hour addition Jeff Randall, a Sky presenter.