US prosecutors weigh criminal charges against HSBC as Elizabeth Warren turns up the heat
Massachusetts senator calls on Department of Justice to ‘come down hard’ on HSBC if beleaguered bank is found to have colluded with tax evaders
HSBC’s Presbyterian principles forgotten in the global dash for cash
The bank became so big it lost touch with the old-fashioned Scottish banking values which laid the foundations for its success
Cash pilgrims and bricks of money: HSBC Swiss bank operated like cash machine for rich clients
Cache of leaked data show how throughout 2005, scores of account holders arrived in Geneva, often emerging with currency foreign to Switzerland
Tsipras favours Greek jobless over creditors in defiant policy speech
Prime minister says government’s first priority is to tackle humanitarian crisis caused by years of austerity
The top 50 business rates bills
The following is a list of business rates payable for 2015/16, according to calculations by the campaigner Paul Turner-Mitchell based on figures from the government’s Valuations Office Agency
Business rates: Heathrow, the BBC and Harrods among hardest hit
Britain’s biggest airport will pay at least £164m, with power stations, government departments, banks and department stores also facing steep bills
Greece finance minister’s soothing comments raise hopes and impress markets
Syriza’s Marxist economist Yanis Varoufakis woos European leaders and markets with talk not of write-offs but of linking Athens’ debt to growth
Leading candidate pulls out of race for RBS chairman’s job
Lord Smith, the former banker who conducted the review of devolution in Scotland, was among names linked to the politically charged post
How the UK sacrificed pay for jobs
This recovery has been like no other – a record number of Britons are in work but the average worker is poorer than before 2008
Eurozone stalled by the toxic politics of the current climate
Mark Carney’s prescription of how to deal with the euro mess may take another lost decade
Bank of England governor attacks eurozone austerity
Mark Carney says eurozone is caught in a debt trap and should ease hardline budget cuts just days after the Syriza election directly challenged policy
Artists often take the money and run – but we must say no to oil companies
Mark Ravenhill: The arts have banked on corporate sponsorship but the City played its own role in causing cuts to our funding. And those organisations who accept cash from oil? They’re simply destroying the environment
Dignity: why I voted for Syriza
Alex Andreou: Greece has roundly rejected its old leaders and elected the radical leftwingers. What is their appeal?
Barclays blocked ‘fraudulent’ cheques, but where’s the money gone?
Bank said my sister-in-law’s cheques were suspect but would not provide further details
Why Greeks voted for Syriza: ‘We have nothing left to lose’
The view from the streets of Athens as Greeks elect a leftwing government