How switching your current account can help to boost your savings Offers encouraging people to move can mean ‘free money’ and access to best-paying savings accounts
Farage steps up calls for Bank of England to halt bond sales Reform UK leader presses governor Andrew Bailey over quantitative easing in meeting at Threadneedle Street
The next big financial crisis may be brewing. Warning signs are already there The longer the period between crises, the greater the complacency. That complacency is pushing share prices ever-higher, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott
Bank of England urged to do more to tackle climate crisis Environmental groups mark 10 years since Mark Carney’s ‘short-term horizons’ speech with plea to act ‘while there’s still time’
Red flags: how to avoid falling victim to a ‘money mule’ scam Repercussions of receiving illicit funds, even unwittingly, in your account and passing them on can be long and costly
UK households put a record £103bn into Isas amid ‘dash for cash’ Figures show 15m more tax-efficient savings accounts were opened in 2023-24, with more following as fears grew allowance might be cut
Nationwide chair first major British lender boss to publicly engage with Reform UK Building society defends Kevin Parry after he attends party’s breakfast event, sitting next to Richard Tice
Barclays boss urges UK ministers to limit public sector pay rises TUC says CS Venkatakrishnan has ‘brass neck’ calling for curbs when his pay packet has doubled to £10.5m
UK contactless payments could go above £100 or become unlimited Financial watchdog says proposals to allow providers to set own limits would be more convenient for shoppers
‘We are teaching the machine to take our job’: Banks bet big on AI as thousands of jobs cut Across the banking sector, thousands of jobs have been lost at the same time as AI use soars in clerical and customer service roles
UK banks face lawsuits over mortgages that left people with huge debts Group actions against Barclays and Bank of Scotland over products that left some people owing up to 20 times the sum they borrowed
Reform UK could strip FCA of power to regulate banking if elected Nigel Farage reportedly plans to overhaul rules governing City of London that were introduced after 2008 financial crash
Lloyds to warn 3,000 staff they face sack for ‘underperformance’ With economic uncertainty leading fewer people to leave, bank will put one in 20 on ‘performance plans’
Finance for transition mineral mining is driving destruction and abuse, says report Hundreds of billions of dollars invested in extractive mining for green transition with few safeguards, research finds
Rate-rigging convictions of five more bankers may be unsafe, says SFO Serious Fraud Office has assessed six more cases after supreme court quashed convictions of two traders last month