At a time when more of us are considering starting our own business, wouldn't it be good to have access to a banking expert to set you off on the righ...

Mark Carney has been revealed as the next Bank of England governor, but who is he? Currently the governor for the Bank of Canada and the chair of t...

Mark Carney, the head of Canada's central bank, who once said he was willing to blow the whistle on big financial institutions, has been appointed the...

Banking giant UBS has been fined £29.7 million by the financial services watchdog for its failings which allowed Kweku Adoboli - known as the rogue t...

By August 2011, the bank's risk exposure had ratcheted up to almost $12bn - enough to bankrupt it - but its back office was still blissfully unaware of its full magnitude. How can a fraud on such a scale go undetected for three years?

Benjamin Strong was the first governor of the Federal Reserve from 1914 to 1928. He was also the first economist to use the interest rate to control the aggregate price of goods (the level of inflation), using credit based mechanisms called open market operations as the main tool to achieve his objective.

Simon Dixon is a former banker who decided to leave the murky world of investment banking to lead a new peer-to-peer crowdfunding platform, aimed at h...

Pigs might indeed fly before I get an online solution from a leading bank that actually gets close to what it could and should do.

London-based lifestyle brand Zaggora was founded by husband and wife team, Malcolm and Dessi Bell. In a year, the pair have sold more than 500,000 pro...

For all their self-alleged sophisticated protestation, European banking entities have somehow ended roughly mirroring the very political disarray their CEOs blame for the slow deleverage levels in the industry and timid lending activity. That is, for their stubborn negative to accept that yesterday's boom succulent profits are today's poisonous hot air.

Millions of Lloyds Banking Group customers are at risk of confusion after Huffington Post UK discovered customers could find their branches rebranded ...

UBS has confirmed a further 10,000 jobs worldwide are at risk of being axed, causing concern among its 6,500 British investment banking staff. The ...

The £80 billion Funding for Lending Scheme, launched by the Bank of England and the Treasury at the start of August, has been hailed for handing out ...

US state prosecutors have ordered Lloyds Banking Group to court as they investigate whether it participated in any schemes to rig the London Interbank...

Santander's Spanish parent company saw profits plunge by 94% in the third quarter, with the UK arm also suffering amid pressure on profit margins. ...

It's no wonder banks aren't interested, when making their customers' businesses more secure appears to be the antithesis of how they've been running the show.

The business maxim to "Keep It Simple, Stupid" is not just common sense, it could also make your business money, according to a new index. The Glob...

As of Tuesday 23 October 2012, the financial ombudsman has received more than half a million complaints about the sale of payment protection insurance...