The furore over bankers' bonuses and levies on banks has deflected attention away from what I reckon was a more fundamental contributor to the financial crisis, namely the imbalance..

Fears of a euro break-up have reached the point where the European Central Bank feels compelled to issue a legal analysis of what would happen if a country tried to leave monetary..

Royal Bank of Scotland has promised £1bn of new loans to manufacturers at cut-price rates to meet lending targets from the Government

Given their recently acquired status as the people we most like to hate, how do Britain’s bankers sleep at night? Rather well, actually, if they’ve invested in the latest sound..

The Priory, the chain of clinics best known for treating celebrities, will appoint banks this week to float the business

Banks could be on a collision course with shareholders over how they report the effect of the Government's bonus tax

The credit crunch has left banks holding significant stakes in at least 2,000 companies

Chelsea Building Society members who have not already voted on the takeover by rival Yorkshire Building Society have just days to get their voices heard

Investment bank Goldman Sachs is expected to spark fury this week by paying £1bn in bonuses to its UK staff

Standard Chartered chief Peter Sands admits that London is suffering as a global capital because of mistakes that were made in banking regulation and the recent bonus tax.

The Standard Chartered chief steered the bank through the recession without needing a bail-out from the taxpayer. He explains why Europe and the US are going to have to solve their..

As president BArack Obama vowed that America will not repeat the mistakes of the past, huge profits and bonuses signalled that it was business as usual for the bankers

More than a million customers could have their bank accounts transferred to new ownership in Royal Bank of Scotland's plans to sell 300 branches

As Wall Street and the major European banks prepare to report record results - and record bonuses - outrage is running high. Although the political response to this cornucopia has..

Some online donations to help victims of the earthquake in Haiti are being wrongly blocked by banks as fraudulent.

Chancellor Alistair Darling has ruled out imposing a US-style levy on British banks propped up by the taxpayer despite anger among many Labour MPs at the return of huge City bonuses.

Copyright infringement is having a serious impact on employment opportunities for the British creative workforce and the promotion of emerging talent. Without the action proposed by the..

Financial Mail has been deluged with correspondence from worried readers over the demise of the cheque in 2018 - we answer your questions

A frenzy of issues in the corporate bond market suggests many businesses fear inflation and interest rates are on the way up

It is an appalling irony that while the Government owns stakes in two of our biggest banks, we are likely to see even more branch closures

Safe, the lobby group representing people treated unfairly by banks is likely to fold after 20 years of campaigning

The office of the London Mayor, the Liberal Democrats, Labour MPs and the unions are not the most obvious of bedfellows. On Friday, though, the unlikely alliance joined in praise of..

Luckily Jamie Dimon has nerve. You need it to run JP Morgan. Or to be the first boss of a US bank to unveil oodles of pay for staff - just a day after President Barack Obama called..

A permanent "super-levy" on UK-based banks that echoes the new US tax is being examined by the Treasury.

Telegraph View: The question that needs to be answered is what is a bank now for.

Hardline conservatives won't like Obama's new tax on the banks, but it's smart policy – and smart politics, tooFor the last year, Barack Obama has been in the uncomfortable position of..

Wall Street jitters hit the FTSE 100 on Friday as the blue-chip index sank 42.83 points to 5455.37, bringing its recent rally to a swift end.

A group of small shareholders have instructed lawyers to bring a damages case worth as much as £9bn against the Royal Bank of Scotland.

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US banks make steady money but pay heady bonuses

Alistair Darling has said he has no plans to directly copy President Barack Obama's super-levy on banks, but promised British taxpayers will be refunded for their bail-out.

Banks continue to dominate the top ten most popular trades for retail investors, according to a new report.

Mayor of London Boris Johnson claims around 9,000 bankers may leave the City because of increased taxes on high earners.

US investment bank unveils a bumper pay package for its City financiers as profits leap.

America's second-biggest bank is now on course to pay out billions in bonuses.

European banks should suffer less than their US counterparts from the Obama administration's proposed bank tax.

President Obama's levy on bank leverage or wholesale funding - and the way he explicitly linked it to the "obscene" (his word) bonuses being paid by banks - has surprised European ministers..

Economists have cast doubt on whether the Bank of England's £200bn quantitative easing (QE) programme is working.

The Wall Street bank is expected to announce a bumper $29bn pay and bonus pot on a four-fold rise in profits.

No longer can Gordon Brown be singled out as the baddie for slapping an election-fuelled supertax on big City bonuses

Bumper profits at US banks will be under the spotlight next week, while updates from supermarket Morrisons and bookmaker William Hill are among the UK highlights

An online network that threatened every UK bank customer by selling bank account and credit card details to the highest bidder has been shut down

President Barack Obama unveils a plans for a $117bn fee to be levied on bailed-out banks, and criticises their bonuses.

The heads of Britain's banking regulators gathered yesterday for the inaugural meeting of the Financial Stability Council (FSC), the new body set up to spot looming banking..

Forget bonuses and bank levies. If you earn £1m then London is now the most expensive of the world's major financial centres as far as income taxes are concerned.

There is a good case for taxing banks more heavily than other businesses. But changing behaviour is a tricky business and there is always the danger that it will alter for the worse..

Savers are losing out to home owners as banks improve their mortgage rates, experts warned last night.

President rails against bonuses as he unveils new tax to recoup the money spent bailing out the US financial system.

The European Central Bank keeps interest rates on hold at 1% in a move widely expected by economists.

Members of the societies have a few days left to vote for or against the proposed mergerCustomers of Yorkshire and Chelsea building societies have just days to decide whether to vote in..

Consumer confidence took a knock in the final quarter of 2009 as people feared for their job security, new research reveals