Comment: Should you be persuaded to switch your bank account because of a gimmick? The Co-op is the latest to turn to bribes to persuade customers to join the bank. It's offering £200 to all new current-account customers... more
Santander's UK chief executive Ana Botin arrives at No.11 Downing Street clutching a sheaf of notes on the proposed separation of banks' retail and investment banking operations... more
Santander UK, the bank created by the takeovers of Abbey, Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley, has announced a surprise drop in first half profits after taking a £538 million hit for payment protection insurance... more
Ocado made a pre-tax profit of £179,000 in the 24 weeks to May 15. Compared with a loss of £6.7 million for the same period last year, that was a creditable performance... more
Banks are accused of hiking interest rates and fees on credit cards and personal loans to make up for their huge compensation bills on payment protection insurance... more
Santander UK throws the gauntlet down to its rival High Street banks by revealing just three of its staff were paid more than £1 million last year... more
The chief executive of Santander, the Spanish bank which bought a swathe of former UK building societies, could be forced to step down after reports that Madrid's supreme court has banned him from banking... more
Spanish banking giant Santander reports a fall in third quarter profits and warns it will miss forecasts for the full year despite a healthy rise in profits from UK operations... more
Santander UK said its profits soared by more than 30% last year as it carved out a bigger share of the mortgage and current-account markets in this country... more
Abbey, Bradford & Bingley and Alliance & Leicester owner Santander indicates that it wants to buy up bank branches being sold off by Northern Rock, Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland... more
Park Group, the Christmas hamper club and gift voucher company, said its 4500 corporate customers, who buy tokens as a staff incentive, helped its revenues rise 6% to £34.2 million for the six months to October... more
Spanish banking giant Santander is set to launch an assault on the current account market with the introduction of a fee-free account available to mortgage customers... more
Santander, the Spanish bank that owns Abbey, Alliance & Leicester and the branch network of Bradford & Bingley, was forced by a Madrid watchdog to rush out its 2008 profit figure... more
Scandal: Spanish bank Santander is under investigation after it lost more than €2.3 billion of clients’ money in the alleged Bernard Madoff fraud... more
Lewis Hamilton's McLaren team suffer a financial blow, as the Spanish bank Santander confirm it is taking principal sponsorship, reported to be worth more than £16million a year, to Ferrari... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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