JP Morgan Chase ready for more fines after paying $1bn in legal fees

Bank admits it faces more settlements and penalties over rigging of foreign exchange rates by its traders

Thomas Piketty: rise of anti-austerity parties good news for Europe

Economist bemoans ‘failure’ of austerity measures and says French far right poses bigger threat than Syriza and Podemos

Analysts fear China financial crisis as deflation looms

Below-target inflation further sign of weakening

Merkel insists she wants Greece to remain in eurozone

German chancellor says she has ‘no doubt whatsoever’ that Athens would uphold its commitments to bailout terms

Eurozone deflation puts pressure on ECB to launch QE stimulus

Falling cost of oil drags down prices by 0.2% but some say plunging energy price will boost growth without QEv

Quantitative easing ain’t so easy to quantify

Nils Pratley: The Bundesbank’s do-nothing, let’s-wait-and-see approach to QE looks increasingly futile and dangerous

Old Bank files reveal era when staff morals ranked with credit crisis

Cache of documents released by the Bank of England reveal a rich interweaving of the Earth-shattering and the mundane

Charter Savings Bank to join challenger banks with spring launch

Branchless bank promises to be a ‘UK bank for UK savers’

The Bank of England’s fear of criticism and openness has proved to be lethal

Anne Perkins: First thoughts: We now know that, as the financial crisis was unfolding, the Bank was wielding its power with virtually no fear of challenge or oversight

Diary of a shambles: Bank of England’s struggle with financial crisis

Minutes show that Bank’s court failed to challenge officials’ thinking over how to handle system during crisis

As oil prices continue to fall, could it spell global trouble for the year ahead?

Brent crude’s collapse has helped many nations, Britain included, but left others such as Russia in a sticky situation

Conservatives will win May general election, predicts Goldman Sachs

US investment bank says economic forecasts for months leading up to poll provide favourable backdrop for a Tory victory

The big orange shed that holds the key to Britain’s economic recovery

Aditya Chakrabortty: Social enterprise start-ups like Building Bloqs are exactly what our broken economy needs. But politicians, bankers and investors must play ball