Nick Leeson went from being a symbol of everything that is wrong with financial markets to investigating the kind of misconduct he became famous for.

Lloyds Banking Group has announced 135 new branch closures, with sites shutting between May this year and March 2026. The latest wave includes 60 Halifax, 61 Lloyds Bank, and 14 B ...

Coverage of the Treasury select committee session on the recent Bank of England Financial Stability report with evidence from the governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, from Wednesday 29 ...

From energy and water bills to council tax and your mortgage, 2025 looks set to bring more financial pain to millions.

The Bank of England's first interest rate decision of 2025 will take place next week, and investors widely expect ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government will retain a ban on asylum seekers being able to claim protections under ...

Gilt yields have increased over the past few years as the Bank of England raised interest rates in response to CPI increasing from just over 0 per cent in early 2021 to a high of more than 11 per cent ...

Interest rate cuts are always good for most businesses, but we may not be getting the dramatic cuts that we were hoping for.

Nearly half a million shoplifting offences were recorded by police in England and Wales in a year, the highest 12-month total ...

COMMENT: Nearly 600,000 mortgage-holders will see their payments soar as higher than expected borrowing costs pummel both ...

The number of mortgage approvals for home buyers saw a slight increase in December, as reported by the Bank of England.

Some 66,526 deals got the green light, up from 66,061 the previous month. Nathan Emerson, chief executive of Propertymark, said: “Many people are likely to have been working with urgency to get their ...