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British Airways is tumbling despite hopes for Iberia deal

05.11.09

Is the board of British Airways about to buy a one-way ticket to Madrid? That was the story doing the rounds in the Square Mile this morning amid claims that the proposed merger with Spanish carrier Iberia could be completed by the second quarter of next year ... more

British Airways is tumbling despite Iberia deal hopes

05.11.09

The Kroes UK�s banks have to bear

04.11.09

The High Street is about to undergo radical change� all thanks to a feisty woman in Brussels ... more

What the City says�

03.11.09

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�Huge discount� possible in Lloyds rights issue

03.11.09

Lloyds Banking Group shares could be sold for as little as 15p each in its �13.5 billion rights issue it was revealed... more

For sale: Three UK banks surplus to requirements

03.11.09

Banking analysis: The Government wants to create three new High Street banks to increase competition in the UK - and today it finally became clear what these banks might look like... more

RBS shares in a tumble as it feels the pain of break-up

02.11.09

Shares in Royal Bank of Scotland tumbled by as much as 17% today after it admitted its break-up ordered by European regulators will be more painful than feared ... more

Devil is in the detail at stricken lender

27.02.09

Analysis: The row between Lloyds Banking Group and the Treasury over how much the bank must pay to insure some �250 billion of toxic debts certainly put the City on edge. But equally concerning was the detail behind the losses... more

Libor rises for first time in three months

28.01.09

Banking: The interest rate at which banks lend to each other has edged higher for the first time since the Government bailed out the British banking system more than three months ago... more

Market report: Builders' new pain as home prices dive

30.12.08

House prices continued falling last month, piling on the gloom for the big UK builders. The value of the average home fell 1.9% to �161,883, stretching the annual rate of loss to 12.2%... more

�300m bill for PPI switch at Lloyds TSB

12.12.08

Lloyds TSB added to the woes of the banking sector as it said the switch from annual to monthly premiums on its payment protection insurance will cost it �300 million... more

Scots duo give up on plan for HBOS bid

21.11.08

Banking: Scottish banking grandees Sir Peter Burt and Sir George Mathewson today formally withdrew their bid plans for HBOS ... more

Demand for a block on HBOS's 'rewards for failure'

31.10.08

Troubled bank HBOS under pressure to block "rewards for failure" to departing directors worth �2.7 million... more

'Arrogant' Lloyds to pay bonuses despite bail-out

21.10.08

Lloyds TSB has been accused of arrogance after telling staff they will get bonuses this year despite the government crackdown on rewards at banks receiving taxpayers' money... more

Lloyds boss declares: You will get your bonuses, why not?

21.10.08

The head of Lloyds TSB has told staff they will get their bonuses this year despite Gordon Brown's promise to crack down on vast rewards at bailed-out banks... more

Banks start to trust again

16.10.08

Nervous banks are finally starting to respond to Gordon Brown's historic rescue package by lending more freely to each other... more

Perhaps the firewall went too far ... but it avoided disaster

15.10.08

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Unsteady HBOS could be facing full State takeover

14.10.08

Plans for the full-blown nationalisation of Halifax Bank of Scotland have been drafted by the Treasury amid fears that its merger with Lloyds TSB is in danger of falling apart... more

HBOS shares plummet after Lloyds TSB halves bid price

13.10.08

Banking: Shares in Halifax owner HBOS crashed by a quarter after it issued a thumping profits warning and Lloyds TSB slashed its �12 billion takeover bid in half... more

City finds flaws in Darling's plan

08.10.08

Fund managers and banking analysts react with dismay to the Treasury�s plans to control how much banks pay out in dividends if they take up any of the Government�s �50 billion recapitalisation offer... more

The big bail-out

08.10.08

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Lloyds must make a decision

01.10.08

Markets deliver a lot of confused signals these days, but one with increasing clarity is that it does not like the terms of the deal under which Lloyds TSB agreed to buy HBOS... more

Another blow for borrowers as Lloyds puts up its mortgages

29.09.08

Lloyds TSB is the latest major lender to raise its mortgage rates in response to global turmoil in the financial markets... more

It�s lawyers who stand to profit from crisis at Lehman and HBOS

23.09.08

Legal Analysis: If there is one group of people that has done well out of the Lehman-to-Lloyds TSB-HBOS rollercoaster then it has to be the lawyers. Not all of them are benefiting, of course... more

Lloyds gets 2012 bonus with merger

19.09.08

Lloyds TSB is set to reap a massive Olympic bonus after its £30 billion merger with HBOS... more

New banking giant set to face sell-off calls from its rivals

18.09.08

Banking: Rival banks are set to demand that the new giant Lloyds TSB-HBOS group sells off parts of its empire once the dust settles from the current financial crisis... more

Merger heralds jobs bloodbath for South-East

18.09.08

Fears that London is heading for a jobs bloodbath erupted today as the global financial meltdown gathered pace... more

Lloyds TSB unveils HBOS takeover

18.09.08

Lloyds TSB unveiled details today of its �12.2 billion takeover of ailing rival Halifax Bank of Scotland. ... more

Brown orders merger bid to save Halifax

17.09.08

Lloyds TSB is in talks to merge with HBOS in the biggest banking rescue in British history... more

Comment: Bank profits and mortgage pain

30.07.08

The worse than expected fall in profits at Lloyds TSB and heavy bad debt charge is further evidence of the scale of damage done by the credit crunch to high-street lenders... more