The Bank of England's new banking regulator has demanded that Britain's banks find an additional �13bn of capital in addition to the balance sheet strengthening measures they were already planning this year.

If you missed Bernanke's press conference last night, I covered it in last night's liveblog, from around 7.30pm. There's also details of the Fed's monetary policy decision, and its new economic forecasts (it's more optimistic about the US labour markets) from 7pm ...

A top businessman who threw his weight behind the Government's savage cuts is to be made an unelected minister and handed a peerage.

The chancellor of the exchequer has raised the possibility of splitting the Ulster Bank into 'good and bad banks'. George Osborne has ordered a review into breaking up the bank's parent body, the RBS.

BEIJING | Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:56am EDT. BEIJING (Reuters) - Wanda Group, China's largest commercial real estate developer, aims to invest about $1 billion to build a five-star hotel in New York as its third major investment outside its home market, ...

The Environment secretary will say that using GM will make use of farm land and �free up space for biodiversity, nature and wilderness�.

Sir Mervyn King, the outgoing governor of the Bank of England who has spent more than two decades at Threadneedle Street, is to be made a life peer.

A survey of 30,000 people by the watchdog group, Passenger Focus, showed the travelling public are increasingly frustrated by the lack of staff at stations, delays and squalid lavatories on trains.

Royal Mail has begun a court battle with the Communication Workers Union after thousands of postal workers voted to boycott deliveries of rivals' mail and to oppose privatisation.

Although its Blacks Leisure and Millets chains saw an increase in like-for-like sales over recent months, that had been achieved at a "significant margin sacrifice", JD Sports said on Tuesday.