Santander confirms £1.26bn bid for A&L
22.40 Mon Jul 14
Spanish bank and Abbey owner Santander has confirmed a £1.26 billion proposed takeover of lender Alliance & Leicester.
US mortgage lender closes
14.02 Sat Jul 12
IndyMac Bank has become the latest mortgage lender in the US to succumb to the pressures of the credit crunch.
Olympic Note
21.56 Wed Jul 09
Chinese scramble for new Olympic 10 yuan note in Beijing, China.
HBOS seeks rights issue backing
10.31 Wed Jun 04
Halifax Bank of Scotland is seeking the backing of its 2 million private shareholders to back a £4 billion rights issue.
Bank to swap £50bn bonds for mortgages
09.55 Sat Apr 19
The Bank of England are planning to swap £50 billion of bonds for high street lenders' mortgages, it has been reported.
Glasgow is UK's most mortgaged city
20.35 Fri Feb 01
Glasgow residents owe the highest percentage in the UK of their home value to the bank.
Bankruptcies to hit record high
10.42 Fri Dec 28 2007
A record number of people could be declared bankrupt or insolvent in the coming year, it has been warned.
N Rock: customers 'withdraw £10.5bn'
12.43 Thu Nov 08 2007
Northern Rock shares tumbled 12 per cent after reports that £10.5 billion has been withdrawn by customers from the crisis-hit lender.
Funding worries hit Barclays shares
13.21 Fri Nov 02 2007
Barclays shares have tumbled by up to 8 per cent to a two-and-a-half year low after a FTSE 100 sell-off continued for a second day.
Man arrested over foiled bank raid
06.37 Fri Sep 14 2007
One man has been arrested in connection with a foiled raid on a security van outside a bank in Chandlers Ford.
Spending spree woman awaits fate
10.43 Tue Aug 28 2007
A woman who went on a luxury spending spree after a bank wrongly put tens of thousands of pounds into her account is awaiting her fate.
Judge rules against Barclay charges
09.56 Fri Aug 24 2007
A judge has ruled in favour of a Barclays bank customer who sued the company over penalty charges.
HSBC profits hit £6.99bn
10.13 Mon Jul 30 2007
Banking giant HSBC has posted a 13 per cent rise in first-half pre-tax profits to £6.99 billion, beating analysts forecasts.
Brits plagued by bad banking
12.46 Wed Jun 13 2007
Bank customers in the UK are getting a raw deal compared to some of their European counterparts in terms of service.
ABN: Barclays' race against the clock
11.08 Mon Apr 16 2007
Barclays has 48 hours to complete its £89 billion merger with Dutch banking group ABN Amro.
'Half of customers to challenge charges' - poll
12.51 Wed Feb 28 2007
Over half of bank customers are planning to claim back "illegal" charges in excess of £1,000, a survey has found.
Another rise for interest rates?
12.31 Wed Feb 14 2007
Interest rates must rise again for inflation to return to its 2 per cent target by the end of 2008, the Bank of England has indicated.