Metro Bank fined £10m for misleading investors

FCA also penalises two of challenger bank’s former top executives

US banks named as being among least ethical UK operators

A new study scores the best and the worst accounts based on key issues such as climate and tax avoidance

What has Barclays done with my £50,000 after post-Brexit changes?

I kept the account when I moved to Greece, but the bank closed accounts held by non-UK residents

Jeremy Hunt’s City deregulation plans are ‘dangerous’ mistake, warns expert

Sir John Vickers, architect of post-2008 banking reforms, says plans put UK financial stability at risk

Jeremy Hunt insists City reforms do not ‘unlearn the lessons’ of 2008 financial crisis – as it happened

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has unveiled a package of City policy changes on Friday that rows back on regulations to, he hopes, boost competition and growth.

Santander UK fined £108m over anti-money laundering failings

Financial Conduct Authority found ‘serious and persistent gaps’ in bank’s controls

Hunt to urge banks to aid mortgage borrowers amid cost-of-living crisis

Exclusive: Chancellor to meet heads of UK’s major lenders and consumer champion Martin Lewis on Wednesday

Fakers, fast sign-ups and fraud: the crisis at the UK’s Companies House

Britain’s register of companies was reformed in 2011 to allow incorporations within 24 hours for £12. Now the number of firms on its books has soared – and so have the complaints

Are big banks short-changing consumers by failing to reduce mortgage costs?

UK high street banks are accused of not passing on benefits of money market movements to savers and borrowers

Banks failing to comply with anti-corruption rules and sanctions lists

Officials named on Magnitsky lists as well as criminals can easily access global finance systems, study finds

Bulb takeover saga sheds light on ‘disgraceful’ lack of transparency

Let’s hope E.ON, Centrica and Scottish Power’s judicial reviews succeed in forcing some openness

Full list of HSBC closures: is your local branch on it?

HSBC is to shut a further 114 branches – more than a quarter of its network. Here is the list of sites to close

HSBC to close more than one in four bank branches in the UK

Round of 114 site closures in 2023 will cut total to 327 as bank reveals usage by regular customers has fallen by two-thirds

UK plans to relax ringfencing rules on banks to spark Brexit ‘big bang’

Largest banks would still be ringfenced, while smaller lenders might not need to follow rules

HSBC quits Canada, selling its business to RBC for £8.4bn

London-headquartered bank has been struggling to navigate political pressure from both Beijing and the west