Nationwide launches 8% account as battle for UK’s savings intensifies

Building society’s regular saver for current account holders is one of a growing number paying 6% interest or more

Oil hits $95 per barrel; CBI postpones annual meeting amid ‘cashflow challenges’ – as it happened

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as Brent crude hits 10-month high and CBI puts annual meeting on hold amid financial woes

Watchdog launched inquiry after row over Coutts’s handling of Nigel Farage’s account

Rising costs, scams and the local shop – why more people are returning to paying with notes and coins

Banks and insurers join Google, Amazon and Meta in encouraging staff to spend most of week in office

Figures show that lenders flagged nearly £1.7bn of government-backed loans for potential fraud at end of June

Number of payments using coins and notes rose 7% last year amid cost of living crisis, after a decade of decline

Exclusive: Thinktank says replacements for European Investment Bank have backed ‘fewer, smaller and lower-risk projects’

British Business Bank chief Louis Taylor says he values roles that are ‘beyond the pure profit motive’

I moved house a few years ago and have been passed from pillar to post as I try to update my details

Communications role follows year in which campaigners targeted bank over environmental stance

Exclusive: Rick Haythornthwaite was paid £200,000 a year by Saudi company, PetroSaudi, involved in 1MDB scandal

Lawyers for family say Saudi government took brother’s data in breach and ‘arrested, tortured, and imprisoned’ him and others

Leeds-based bank may finally be in position to support regional development and net zero climate ambitions

Startup bank’s deals range from 6.5% to 7.5%, ‘comparable with two-year fixes at the moment’