Capping payday loans: from light touch to strong arm
The move to cap the amount payday lenders can charge is an extraordinary one, and a sign of stronger state-intervention in business.
Can the elites in Davos help create lasting prosperity, or are most people here stuck with the prospect of falling living standards?
Consumer groups will be given a greater role in identifying and fixing “broken markets” under plans set out by Ed Miliband for a shake-up of the way competition across the business world is regulated.
Labour leader Ed Miliband says there should be limits on the size of the big five high street banks, with the creation of two new lenders and the forced sale of branches to create more competition.
Labour leader Ed Miliband promises to force banks to give up branches in order to make way for new competitors if Labour wins the next general election.
A spot of banker bashing from Ed Miliband and a carefully-worded promise from the Prime Minister to cap pay at RBS. What does it all mean?
Prime Minister David Cameron ducks Labour demands for the government to veto individual bonuses paid to RBS bankers.
As unemployment falls to 7.4 per cent, near the 7 per cent threshold the Bank of England governor said would lead to a cut in rates, Faisal Islam looks at the figures – and the new plastic banknotes.
Taxpayer-backed Lloyds Banking Group is fined a record £28m after the City regulator uncovered failings in its bonus schemes that put pressure on sales staff to hit targets or risk being demoted.
Thousands of financial details were stolen from HSBC 4 years ago, leading to a major investigation into tax evasion and money laundering. The whistleblower gives, for the first time, his full story.
Eight banks, including RBS, are fined a record 1.7bn euros for colluding to rig interest rates, but Barclays escapes punishment after blowing the whistle on the practice.
Royal Bank of Scotland promises to “put right” the fact that many of its customers were left “out of pocket” by a computer glitch on Monday.
A glitch which left Royal Bank of Scotland customers unable to pay on one of the busiest shopping days of the year took place after the bank was warned it could be punished for computer failures.
A flagship scheme to boost loans for mortgages will be scaled back by the Bank of England in an attempt to head off a potential housing bubble, as Faisal Islam reports.
The move to cap the amount payday lenders can charge is an extraordinary one, and a sign of stronger state-intervention in business.
As RBS is accused of driving small firms “to the wall”, Channel 4 News speaks to a businessman who alleges he was told by the bank that he had to sort out his cashflow or face bankruptcy.