EU ministers meet in Brussels – as it happened

An Ecofin meeting has kicked off in Brussels after euro ministers told Greece it must do better on plans for reforms

HSBC: Tory MPs accused of blocking watchdog’s bid to question Green

Conservative-dominated public accounts committee rejects proposal to summon former HSBC chairman and trade minister over bank’s tax scandal

Rona Fairhead should lose BBC job over HSBC role, says influential MP

Margaret Hodge, chair of the public accounts committee, says Fairhead should either resign as BBC Trust chair or the government should sack her

Hodge tells BBC chief Rona Fairhead to resign in HSBC hearing: Politics Live blog

Andrew Sparrow’s rolling coverage of all the day’s political developments as they happen, including Ed Balls’ speech on Tory spending cuts and David Cameron’s speech on education and family

Argentina seeks to repatriate $3.5bn it claims HSBC helped offshore

Argentina’s tax authority has identified 4,040 bank accounts held by Argentinian individuals and companies in Switzerland through HSBC’s Geneva subsidiary

Lloyds Bank share sell-off returns further £500m to Treasury

Latest shares sell-off cuts government stake in bank to 23% with nearly half of £20bn bailout now recouped

HSBC bosses and BBC Trust chief face MPs over tax revelations

Public accounts committee to ask Stuart Gulliver, Chris Meares and the BBC’s Rona Fairhead key questions on tax arrangements at multinational bank

Greece threatens new elections if eurozone rejects planned reforms

Athens’ finance minister Yanis Varoufakis says referendum or new election on fiscal policy is possible if deadlock remains

The Old Lady’s not for talking: what is the Bank of England not telling us?

Mark Carney promised to make the Bank a more open place. But its behaviour over the Serious Fraud Office investigation is reminiscent of the bad old days

SFO launches investigation into Bank of England liquidity auctions

It is unclear whether the Bank’s employees are suspected of involvement in any attempt to rig the auctions, used as emergency lending during the credit crisis

Rona Fairhead: my main focus is the BBC, not HSBC

Chair of broadcaster’s trust vows to keep reviewing whether she can continue to sit on bank’s board and carry out her BBC role

George Osborne dodges questions over HSBC’s Stephen Green

Chancellor defends HSBC as a ‘very important bank’ but repeatedly fails to answer questions about his conversations with bank’s former boss

Bank of England foreign exchange investigation too narrow, says MP

Jesse Norman commissions report into review by Anthony Grabiner QC, claiming it set very low tests for an inquiry into the scandal

BBC chief says it was not proper to discuss HSBC with Rona Fairhead

Tony Hall says he would not have talked about bank with head of trust, who formerly chaired HSBC’s audit committee, while a BBC investigation was ongoing

BBC Trust defends Rona Fairhead over £500,000 HSBC payment

Chair of BBC’s governing body was chair of HSBC’s audit committee at time covered by HSBC files, but has had no discussions with journalists about coverage