HSBC reported pre-tax profits of $21.9bn (£13.8 billion) in 2011, an increase of 15% on a year earlier. The profits announcement is among the high...

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Taxpayer-owned Royal Bank of Scotland has announced it lost £2bn in 2011, while also paying more than £785m in bonuses to staff. RBS, which is 82...

Three out of four people think bosses at bailed-out banks should not get a bonus, according to research. And 58% of respondents to the YouGov poll,...

Bailed-out banks Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds will this week fuel fears that it will take years for taxpayers to get their money back. The pre...

There is a call for 'freedom' in the Middle East, both from citizens within its troubled borders, and from our own Western supporters of democracy ove...

Britain's part-nationalised banks, Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland, are expected to report combined losses of at least £4 billion for...

Banking giant Barclays slashed the bonus pool for its investment banking arm by 32% in 2011 to £1.5bn, amid mounting pressure over the controversial ...

Banking giant Barclays slashed the bonus pool for its investment banking arm by 32% in 2011 to £1.5 billion amid mounting pressure over the controver...

Stephen Hester, chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, has admitted that accepting his £1m bonus would have damaged the bank. Hester said he h...

Barclays will reportedly attempt to defend itself against "banker bashing" this week by revealing that it has cut pay and met targets for lending to b...

A leading union has welcomed the decision to strip former RBS chief executive Fred Goodwin of his knighthood. David Fleming, national officer of Un...

Ex-banker Fred Goodwin's disgrace was completed when he was humiliatingly stripped of his knighthood on Tuesday. The award was "cancelled and annul...

David Cameron will not stop the Royal Bank of Scotland awarding other bonuses to its executives, a Downing Street spokesperson has said. RBS chief ...

The City trader accused of fraudulently gambling away £1.5bn at UBS has pleaded not guilty at Southwark Crown Court. Kweku Adoboli, 31, faces char...

Pressure is growing on Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Stephen Hester to turn down his six-figure bonus, as politicians and unions line up agai...

Stephen Hester, boss of taxpayer-funded RBS, has been awarded a bonus worth £963,000, around 60% of his entitlement, following political pressure to ...