FSA short of credible candidates to succeed Hector Sants
Shadow chancellor George Osborne made a peace-making visit to Canary Wharf, but it wasn't enough to persuade Sants to stay
Timing of FSA chief’s departure months before an election is out of joint
Hector Sants tenure as the head of FSA coincided with the financial crisis, since then the City watchdog has been reinvented as a tough enforcer
82 months and counting…
Andrew Simms: If economics was subject to the same evidence-based scrutiny as climate change, our world would be run very differently
The change we need now is a rougher, more radical Barack Obama
Jonathan Freedland: A soaring speech will be futile if the US president aims to court the centre. He must instead lay out a series of bold new moves
Don’t let the carbon market die
Oliver Tickell: The Copenhagen climate change conference achieved too little, but a modest global carbon tax would make amends
Banks are vital to London, says Boris Johnson
The mayor of London issues a fierce defence of financial services
Democrats in a bind over passage of Obama’s bank bill
President faces tough task getting bank reforms through Congress in face of scepticism from both sides
Ethical sales triple over decade, says Co-operative Bank
A report by the Co-operative Bank on ethical consumerism has shown that spending on 'green' products and Fairtrade goods has risen threefold since 1999
Tis the season of goodwill to all men – except the bankers
While strolling in St James's Park, on the eve of Christmas Eve, William Keegan ran into a few old friends...
Q&A: Bank charges
Where do you stand now that the Office of Fair Trading has dropped the bank charges case?
Financial Services Authority vets banks’ pay policies
Pay policies at 26 financial institutions are subject to FSA sanction in line with Alistair Darling's crackdown on bankers' bonuses
Brown and Sarkozy move to fund climate aid with global banking tax
An EU summit in Brussels sought to boost the chances of a deal further by also pledging €2.4bn a year from January
Pre-budget report 2009: the main points
Key details from chancellor Alistair Darling's 2009 pre-budget report
Banking on a green industrial revolution
Britain needs urgent action to harness a wave of environmental technologies if it is to arrest industrial decline