US banks face sweeping reform under Senate plans
US Democrat Chris Dodd has released his long-awaited proposals to rein in banks and hedge funds and change the 'convoluted system of bank regulators'
A fund for climate chaos
Kevin Watkins: RBS investment in tar sand exploitation is a highly irresponsible use of public bailout money
Vince Cable: force banks to lend billions more to businesses
Ban bonuses, keep banks in public ownership and use them to help economy, says LibDem Treasury spokesman
Voters recognise they need Vince to moderate George
Polly Toynbee: Well-founded anxieties about Tory economic competence are making a hung parliament ever more likely
George Osborne’s cut-price share plan is flawed
The shadow chancellor's proposal to create a 'people's bank bonus' by offering cheap shares would short-change taxpayers
Bailed out by the taxpayer – but still the losses mount
Jill Treanor looks at the prospects for UK taxpayers getting their money back from Lloyds and RBS
New poll reveals depth of outrage at bankers’ bonuses
Three in four think banks are still not properly regulated and want payout cap
Get behind Robin Hood
Austen Ivereigh: Face to faith: The Robin Hood tax is not punitive but restorative – and churches should be vocal in their support
Fears of mass UK banking exodus prove unfounded
Numbers of people applying for jobs in Swiss financial sector last year actually fell, despite warnings by Boris Johnson that new taxes would drive them away
Ministers criticised over Northern Irish mutual society’s failure
Treasury select committee MPs voice concern at lack of action over collapse of Presbyterian Mutual Society
Bank of England keeps options open to pump more money into the economy
Bank of England governor Mervyn King today said it is far too soon to rule out further quantitative easing as the outlook for the economy remains shaky
Richard Curtis and Bill Nighy team up in new film urging Tobin tax on bankers
Campaign film says 0.05% 'Robin Hood' tax on financial trades could raise $700bn for world's poor