Exclusive interview with the ‘Edward Snowden of banking’
For the first time the IT expert who took details of tens of thousands of client accounts from Britain’s largest bank tells his full story.
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For the first time the IT expert who took details of tens of thousands of client accounts from Britain’s largest bank tells his full story.
Tensions rise outside court in Greece as Golden Dawn’s leaders appear in court. But police evidence raises questions about the party – and about whether there is the political will to deter it.
Cyprus secures a last-minute, 10bn euro bailout in a deal which will see its second largest bank closed and those with the largest deposits facing a levy to raise funds.
The Cypriot parliament votes against plans to tax people’s bank deposits to secure a bailout from the EU and IMF. Meanwhile, the RAF flies 1 million euros in to keep British forces there in cash.
Eurozone finance ministers agree on a bailout for Cyprus, marking the fifth international rescue package in three years of the debt crisis.
Police fire tear gas and stun grenades at demonstrators in Athens who are protesting about Angela Merkel’s trip to the country.
Heads of state from around the world are meeting in London with business leaders including IMF head Christine Lagarde and Google’s Eric Schmidt on the eve of Friday’s Olympics opening ceremony.
The UK economic forecast is cut and the global recovery shows further signs of weakness, the International Monetary Fund said in its World Economic Outlook today.
Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos issues a dire warning about the future of the euro, as new figures show 66bn euros ($82bn) of money left the country in March.
Home Secretary Theresa May says the government is drawing up contingency plans for an influx of economic migrants from Greece and other European countries if the eurozone breaks up.
More than 100 people protesting against government austerity cuts descend on the London home of Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
The government is wrestling with a package of growth measures it would like to announce before the Summer recess. There are internal battles over the scale of all this and some of the content.
Britain should cut interest rates and consider quantitative easing to stimulate growth, the IMF says, on the back of reports showing 3 per cent inflation and predicting the recession is almost over.
As Greece heads towards rerun elections, Channel 4 News Economics Editor Faisal Islam considers whether Europe is heading for a stormy political and economic earthquake
“The chancellor is adamant that this is not a further back-door bailout of the eurozone.”