How to cut through the small print on savings accounts Some best-buy, high-paying accounts are not always the best for you
Chancellor summons City bosses to No 11 for infrastructure taskforce relaunch Exclusive: Rachel Reeves will meet senior City figures on Friday to discuss funding of national investment projects
Labour’s new green rules for big companies face resistance in the City Business lobby groups fear the impact of the government’s environmental standards on efforts to revive the London Stock Exchange
Labour’s challenge is complicated by the triumph of finance. That’s bad news for UK plc To get the necessary investment, Labour must bring the financial sector onboard while diluting its often malign influence
New HSBC boss ‘ready to cut jobs of senior bankers to save $300m’ Reports say Georges Elhedery’s plans part of restructure that would lead to merging global and commercial units
The Great Escape festival no longer sponsored by Barclays, after criticism of Israel links Website for festival no longer names Barclays as a partner, following activist campaign against its sponsorship earlier this year
‘They would have just been fired’: bankers on drug- and sex-fuelled drama Industry Racy TV series is written by former banking employees and known for its attention to detail – but how realistic is it?
UK banks given extra three days to delay payments in effort to beat scams High street banks handed new powers by the Treasury to delay and investigate payments suspected of being fraudulent
Starling Bank is simply not fit to float Damning report into financial crime controls revealed a shambles at the top and surely ends any dream of a flotation soon
Starling Bank fined £29m for ‘shockingly lax’ financial crime controls Challenger bank apologises after City regulator says lack of checks ‘left system wide open to criminals and those subject to sanctions’
Starling Bank fined £29m for ‘shockingly lax’ sanctions breaches – as it happened Live coverage of business, economics and financial markets as bank gave accounts to 49,000 high-risk customers and oil prices rise after Iranian missile attacks on Israel
UK business confidence dips to lowest level since general election Research concludes Labour warnings of tough budget may have sapped optimism about the economy
Labour to announce £10bn AI project in Northumberland backed by pro-Trump billionaire Stephen Schwarzman’s Blackstone Group will fund data centre bringing 4,000 jobs to north-east England
Co-op chain turns to AI to identify criminals with weapons Group to trial technology that can detect shoplifting and attacks on staff after losses from crime rose by almost 20% to £40m in six months
Yorkshire has lowest ratio of bank branches to people in UK, says Which? Consumer group says 6,161 branches have been shut since 2015 and there are 30 constituencies without one