A Met policeman and his chartered surveyor wife accepted more than £1 million in cash and luxury cars after she gave inflated valuations for homes in London's most exclusive neighbourhoods, the Old Bailey heard... more
Bank of Scotland, part of Lloyds Banking Group, is fined £3.5 million for failing to properly handle thousands of complaints, many from older customers, over savings products they had been sold... more
JJB Sports unveils its latest attempt to drag itself off the critical list, confirming a £65 million fund raising exercise that it hopes will give it enough capital to kick-start a three-to-five year turnaround... more
JJB Sports warns that it is likely to breach its financial covenants, a month after issuing a profit warning, since trading conditions have remained difficult... more
Comment: The Financial Services Authority’s devastating report into how badly our big five banks handle their customers should come as no great surprise... more
Wealthy investors face a tough year with continuing low interest rates and a General Election, private client fund manager Rathbone Brothers says... more
Another 200 jobs are going at Lloyds Banking Group. The merged High Street giant has ordered redundancies at the LloydsTSB and HBOS general insurance operations ... more
Banking: Sir Peter Burt, former chief executive of Bank of Scotland, has accused his successors at HBOS, which had to be taken over by Lloyds TSB last month, of being “greedy”... more
HBOS painted one of the most dire pictures of the economy to date, as its shareholders met in their hundreds to vote on the bank’s £11.5 billion bailout and takeover by Lloyds TSB... more
Banking: Britain's clearing banks speed up their promises of more help for small business as the Government drops plans to force them to lend more under new legislation... more
Lloyds TSB will not only drop the TSB from its name but there will be no sign either of Halifax or Bank of Scotland in its monicker once the takeover is voted through. Instead the new enlarged group will quite simply be called Lloyds Banking Group Plc. ... more
Banking: HBOS admitted it suffered a serious surge in savers withdrawing their cash in the six weeks of September and early October ahead of the Government's bailout and forced takeover by Lloyds TSB... more
Shares in Halifax and Bank of Scotland owner HBOS jumped another 14% amid growing conviction in the stock market that its £11.7 billion takeover by Lloyds TSB will happen... more
On holiday in Greece last week I paused outside a newsagent to read a British front page. HBOS shares had crashed 48 per cent in a single day. Twenty-four hours later I learned my bank of 25 years was bust... more
Banking: Lloyds TSB management are to meet Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond over Lloyds' takeover of HBOS in what has become a highly politically charged deal... more
HBOS, Britain's fourth-largest bank and owner of the biggest mortgage lender Halifax, has warned that it expects financial market conditions to remain uncertain throughout 2008... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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