UK households put a record £103bn into Isas amid ‘dash for cash’

Figures show 15m more tax-efficient savings accounts were opened in 2023-24, with more following as fears grew allowance might be cut

Nationwide chair first major British lender boss to publicly engage with Reform UK

Building society defends Kevin Parry after he attends party’s breakfast event, sitting next to Richard Tice

TUC says CS Venkatakrishnan has ‘brass neck’ calling for curbs when his pay packet has doubled to £10.5m

Financial watchdog says proposals to allow providers to set own limits would be more convenient for shoppers

Across the banking sector, thousands of jobs have been lost at the same time as AI use soars in clerical and customer service roles

Group actions against Barclays and Bank of Scotland over products that left some people owing up to 20 times the sum they borrowed

Nigel Farage reportedly plans to overhaul rules governing City of London that were introduced after 2008 financial crash

With economic uncertainty leading fewer people to leave, bank will put one in 20 on ‘performance plans’

Hundreds of billions of dollars invested in extractive mining for green transition with few safeguards, research finds

Serious Fraud Office has assessed six more cases after supreme court quashed convictions of two traders last month

Investor jitters follow report by IPPR and lead to more than £6bn being wiped off the sector’s market value

IPPR says Rachel Reeves should also urge Bank to halt bond sales to reduce government losses of £22bn a year

World’s largest wealth fund says it has excluded bulldozer maker and five Israeli banking groups on ethics grounds

Move could increase competition among big phone providers and help diversify revenues for digital bank

Rachel Reeves would do well to drop her ‘boot on the neck’ inflammatory language and err on the side of caution