The Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards has published its long-awaited report. The FT provides a guide to the highlights: 1) More competition, less political interference.

On a stage shaped like a yacht, Wanda's 59-year-old chairman Wang Jianlin was ably supported by a troop of dancers in glittering dresses as he underlined that a wave of Chinese money is about to hit the UK.

Berkeley Group Holdings Plc (BKG), the U.K. homebuilder focused on London and southeast England, said annual profit rose 33 percent after it sold more homes in areas where house prices are rising.

John Swinney announced an independent Scotland would have the same flat-rate pension of �144 per week planned by the UK but would increase it annually by the highest of earnings growth, inflation or 2.5 per cent.

Where is inflation? This is the question floated by the media based on US consumer price statistics, which show that the Federal Reserve's trillions of dollars in money injection and near-zero interest rates have not triggered the feared inflation.

People living in London's East Ham are more likely to be the victims of identity fraud than anyone else in the UK, figures suggest.

The City grandee Baroness Hogg's high-flying banker daughter Charlotte has taken a �1m pay cut to become the new Bank of England Governor's top enforcer.

Two firms in BBC documentary series The Call Centre were fined a total of �225,000 today for making nuisance sales calls. The Information Commissioner's Office said there had been 2,700 complaints about Nationwide Energy Services and We Claim You ...

European stock-index futures advanced as investors awaited the conclusion of the Federal Reserve's policy meeting for indications on stimulus measures.

The chairman of Lloyds Banking Group has told MPs that there was no political pressure for the bank to select the Co-operative Group as the preferred bidder for the hundreds of branches it must sell under state aid rules.