Why Kwarteng’s focus on bankers’ bonuses is a strange fight to pick

Some of the chancellor’s other proposals may represent a step back to the light-touch era that led to 2008-09 crash

What is the banker bonus cap and could scrapping it boost growth?

Chancellor may lift EU-era restriction in hope of making UK more attractive to financial sector

The City’s five biggest banker bonuses since 2006

Big paydays for the financial sector could be here again as the chancellor considers abolishing the bonus cap

Liz Truss faces backlash over plan to lift cap on bankers’ bonuses – as it happened

Latest updates: Kwasi Kwarteng’s plan to lift cap criticised as ‘very bad timing’ during cost of living crisis

Kwasi Kwarteng to lift cap on banker bonuses; John Lewis slumps to £99m loss –as it happened

Chancellor reportedly plans to lift the EU-imposed banker bonus cap as part of post-Brexit reforms; John Lewis says ‘uniquely uncertain’ outlook puts staff bonuses at risk

China tells banks to check exposure to debt-laden Fosun conglomerate

Sprawling group owns assets including Thomas Cook, Club Med and Wolverhampton Wanderers

UK banks face stress tests on impact of energy crisis defaults

Exclusive: Move is part of Bank of England’s delayed health check of financial industry

Woodford fund investors could be in line for £306m in compensation

FCA orders fund’s administrator, Link, to ringfence sum as part of conditions related to its takeover

Crypto scammers stole £55,000 from my father

MyCoinBanking was known to Barclays but the bank has only offered to repay him half of what he lost

How Tide’s determined rise cost UK taxpayers millions

The fintech gained a wave of new customers after signing up to the Covid bounce back scheme, but now a third of the loans it made have gone bad

Kwasi Kwarteng assures City of support for Bank of England independence

New chancellor promises City bosses ‘radical’ plan for economic growth and smooths over Truss’s threat to review Bank’s remit

HSBC could lose our visually impaired cyclists their hard-won holiday

The deposit has gone missing between between our club’s account and the hotel in Germany

More ‘banking hubs’ to open across UK to tackle branch and ATM closures

Additional 13 hubs will bring total to 25, where customers of almost any bank can carry out transactions

UK facing 1970s-style balance of payments crisis under Liz Truss

Tax cuts and spending pledges could alarm global markets and trigger a 30% collapse in sterling, Deutsche Bank warns

Credit Suisse weighs up 5,000 job cuts as part of restructuring plan

Proposals involve scaling back the investment bank and reducing more than $1bn in costs