The end of forbearance: Britain’s Roadrunner moment
Low interest rates, low corporate insolvency rates, interest-only mortgages – they’re all masking the true depth of the UK’s financial crisis.
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European leaders are in Norway to celebrate the award of the Nobel peace prize to the EU – as it emerges an absent David Cameron is to set out plans for a repatriation of powers and an EU referendum.
Banks are still pressurising staff to sell products which may be unsuitable for customers, despite a number of mis-selling scandals, research from consumer group Which? finds.
Low interest rates, low corporate insolvency rates, interest-only mortgages – they’re all masking the true depth of the UK’s financial crisis.
As Mark Carney takes the reins at the Bank of England, Economics Editor Faisal Islam looks at the politics behind his surprise appointment.
Swiss banking giant UBS is fined £29.7m by the City watchdog for failings which allowed convicted trader Kweku Adoboli to lose £1.4bn.
A funny thing is happening in the Mediterranean. Cyprus has been poised to become the fourth Eurozone sovereign to agree a bailout, the fifth if you include Spain’s banking bailout.
Can a deal be done? Gary Gibbon has the latest from the EU budget negotiations in Brussels.
Nate Silver, who predicted with a 90.0 per cent certainty that Barack Obama would win the recent US presidential election, is on Channel 4 News tonight. Have you got any questions?
Gary Gibbon arrives in Berlin where Angela Merkel’s plan to stop “the UK parking it’s car in front of the fire station” could have dramatic repercussions for Britain in Europe.
After claims that power companies manipulated prices within the wholesale gas market, Channel 4 News looks at why prices may have been distorted and what the allegations reveal about the market.
Justin Welby is going places. Eton, Cambridge, oil, and now running the Church of England at just 56 – the new Archbishop of Canterbury doesn’t hang around.
Britain’s biggest bank is at the centre of a HMRC investigation after allegations that criminals opened offshore accounts for money laundering purposes in the bank’s Jersey operation.
He has been re-elected president, but Barack Obama now has another big challenge: the so-called “fiscal cliff”. Channel 4 News looks at what lies ahead.
No-frills accounts set up to help vulnerable and low-income customers could be threatened by banks cutting back on the services offered through them, a report claims.
The bill for mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI) at taxpayer-backed Lloyds Banking Group tops the £5bn barrier as claims against the bank continue to pile up.