France’s dilemma: protesters demand spending as markets require fiscal restraint

Waves of protests expose debt crisis faced by French government, but political wrangling is stalling an escape plan. Is there a way out?

Ex-Deutsche Bank trader has conviction for rigging interest rates quashed

Christian Bittar becomes eighth person to clear their name, days after five former Barclays bankers were acquitted

Exclusive: Chancellor urged to reverse Jeremy Hunt’s tax surcharge cuts to claw back billions in lost revenue

Eye-watering sum, to be split between 20 bankers, is one of the biggest payouts in the bank’s history

Acquittals of five former bankers come year after supreme court overturned ruling against City trader Tom Hayes

British banker Simon Andriesz helped to expose alleged ties between late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick

Revelation comes amid mounting concern over online prediction market’s effects on integrity of financial system

Study says UK-based banks provided $8.3bn in coal financing in four years, with Barclays and HSBC leading rise

Bank allows employees to delay being in workplace at least three days a week until 2027, if permission granted

Bumper fees paid in the year’s mergers and acquisitions spark anger over high City pay during cost of living crisis

MPs send out letter as Israeli government seeks bids for construction of large E1 settlement in West Bank

Union calls for payouts to help cover travel costs and exemption for those living more than 40 minutes away

It told me a year ago I had applied for a credit card – now it is it telling me my payment is overdue

Dozens of Bank of England directors and founding subscribers invested in trafficking of enslaved Africans

Judges uphold ruling that financier tried to ‘frustrate’ investigations into harassment claims against him