Bank of England takes tough new line with auditors

Actuaries and compliance officers will be required to hand over written reports on high-street banks under new regulations on financial industry

Lloyds v RBS – two banks with different problems and very different results

Both banks were bailed out at enormous cost to the taxpayer. One has turned things around while the other is still suffering

RBS paid out £421m in bonuses in 2014 despite £3.5bn loss

Bailed-out bank announces appointment of Sir Howard Davies as chairman as it reports seventh consecutive year of losses and further retrenchment of investment arm

Don’t privatise RBS – break it up into local banks, urges NEF thinktank

New Economics Foundation says 79% taxpayer stake in bailed-out bank should be used to create 130 locally run banks, boosting GDP by £38bn

Barings collapse at 20: How rogue trader Nick Leeson broke the bank

Twenty years ago, Nick Leeson caused the collapse of Barings, the City’s oldest merchant bank and banker to the Queen

Wonga to cut third of staff following new clampdown on payday lenders

Move comes as competition watchdog compels payday lenders to list deals on price-comparison websites

Greece submits reform document in bid to secure bailout extension

Six-page blueprint aimed at appeasing eurozone creditors expected to be endorsed by finance ministers

HSBC scandal: George Osborne signals new tax evasion measures

Chancellor makes announcement during heated exchanges with Ed Ball in the House of Commons

HSBC and tax: ignorance stemming from complexity is no excuse

Directors may not be able to know everything, but surely they can be expected to know how to spot obvious commercial risks

Government sells £500m of Lloyds shares in key week for bailed-out bank

Stake falls below 24% as bank prepares to restart dividend payments and pay £25m to top staff

HSBC and Telegraph: owners cannot afford to ignore paper’s credibilty

Tension between editorial and commercial is nothing new, but the Peter Oborne affair could cause long-term, even terminal, damage

Greece scrambles to finalise fiscal reform list

Minister of state Nikos Pappas said the government was drafting list of reforms including making the civil service more effective and laws to combat tax evasion

The Observer view on the Daily Telegraph’s gross miscalculation

Observer editorial: The Telegraph’s message about suicides at a rival newspaper demeans those who wrote it and those who ordered it

Greece deal is first step on the road back to austerity

The extension of the Greek bailout with barely a concession to Yanis Varoufakis’s demands proves only that Europe wants him to stick with the programme

Greece to seek loan extension under pressure from eurozone

Syriza-led government seems ready to negotiate new aid package but says it will not succumb to ‘blackmail’