Disgraced former Royal Bank of Scotland boss Sir Fred Goodwin and his former directors spark fresh outrage after being cleared of wrongdoing, despite bringing the bank to its knees... more
Around 100,000 finance jobs have been lost since the start of the banking crisis three years ago and there are fears of further "significant" cuts ahead... more
Government hopes of selling Northern Rock before the general election looked doomed amid signs potential bidders will wait until after polling day ... more
Lloyds Banking Group, the part-nationalised bank, is to get rid of another 2100 jobs taking the total jobs lost since Lloyds merged with HBOS and received £17billion of taxpayers' money to just over 7000... more
Barclays today closed its final salary pension scheme to all members telling its 18,000 active participants that from December they will move into a less expensive and less rewarding money purchase scheme ... more
There were yet more job cuts in the insurance industry today when Legal & General said it would axe another 560 positions, mostly in call centres ... more
Royal Bank of Scotland today axed another 9000 jobs, taking the total number of posts axed so far this year to almost 12,000. Half of the cuts will be in the UK... 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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