Shares in buy-to-let mortgage lenders fall after report Reeves plans rent freeze

FTSE 250 firms Paragon and OSB Group, owner of Kent Reliance and Precise Mortgages, slide on London Stock Exchange

HSBC ‘reviewing’ private school perk for bankers in Hong Kong

Hundreds of senior staff in territory benefit from nearly £30,000-a-year grant per child not available to staff in group’s other hubs

Shareholders including the Church of England back call for protest votes against bank’s chair

Creator card is designed for people making money through TikTok Live, some of whom complain of payment delays

MPs call for investigation into Essar Energy, owner of Stanlow refinery, which shifted loans from ‘Putin’s piggy bank’ VTB to Mauritius

The campaign is part of government initiative to boost financial risk taking, amid fears UK growth is being stymied

There are now 3,110 billionaires but analysis shows ‘deep structural acceleration’ in wealth creation around world

Anthropic’s decision to restrict access to its powerful new model increases fears about the advanced technology

The trend has been accelerated by the US-Israel war on Iran, leaving households – and cafe owners – glum, surveys suggest

Twin reports from top accounting firms underline scale of economic threat as Iran war shatters business confidence

HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds, NatWest and Santander will this week discuss with chancellor how to limit effects of conflict

Finance chiefs to join exercise in Washington designed to assess how they would handle collapse of significant bank

Release of new Claude model, so far limited to US firms, will expand to British institutions in coming days

Dan Frumkin’s pay package comes after bank’s near collapse and rescue by Colombian billionaire

Six lenders, including Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan report jump in first-quarter earnings