Eurozone economy stumbles raising fears of new year recession

PMI, a good indicator of growth, sinks to 51.1 from October’s 52.1 leading to warnings of renewed contraction in new year

Barclays rolls out face-to-face video banking

Bank to let customers talk to adviser on phones or computers at all hours but critics fear move will herald further branch closures

So banks are too big to fail. Are they also too big to regulate?

Robert Jenkins: Despite scandal after scandal in the financial sector, the absence of personal accountability persists

Fines from bank Libor rigging may be used to close hospital disability units

Report calls for new charter of rights for people with learning disabilities after Winterbourne View scandal

Bailouts, bail-ins and the banks: why we can’t afford another financial crisis

Governments are not flush enough to contemplate a second wave of bailouts, which leaves the problem of too ‘big to fail’ unsolved, writes Larry Elliott

RBS admits mistake led to overstating financial strength to regulators

Shares in RBS fell by almost 3% as it emerged bank has least margin for error among UK rivals

RBS’s IT woes are not simply down to lack of investment

Inadequate risk management caused problems that led to Royal Bank of Scotland being fined £56m for its 2012 IT cock-up

Britain’s net worth rises to £7.6tn

ONS figures show homes are UK’s most valuable non-financial asset, worth more than three times their estimated 1997 value

RBS fined £56m for IT breakdown

6.5 million customers at Royal Bank of Scotland, NatWest and Ulster Bank affected by computer meltdown in June and July 2012

What’s the key to unlocking my wife’s ICICI Bank savings account?

She hasn’t been able to gain access since July although we’ve sent 17 emails asking for help

George Osborne to receive first feedback on challenge against EU bonus cap

The final judgment, which is expected in February, will have implications for bankers’ bonuses

Almost 10,000 Lloyds staff to receive back pay over denied pay rises

The long-running dispute has disproportionately affected female employees, who make up 65% of the bank’s workforce

Carney is right to improve bankers’ behaviour by putting salaries at risk

‘Performance bonds’ would pay out over time if there was no misconduct – avoiding EU’s financially illiterate bonus cap

Mark Carney: dock bankers’ pay for misconduct

Bank of England governor’s proposals to curb excessive risk-taking include putting non-bonuses or fixed pay on the line

Who gets the best return on stock-market investments? Not finance professionals

Is financial expertise overrated? A new study from the ‘Yelp of investing’ shows that finance professionals make less money in the stock markets than people in other industries – perhaps because banking experts know it pays to be wary