Britain's banking bosses should face jail if their decisions force fresh bailouts, the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards says today.

LONDON, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 2:30am EDT. LONDON, June 19 (Reuters) - British housebuilder Berkeley Group Holdings posted a 26 percent rise in full year pretax profit and said its 10-year plan to return 1.7 billion pounds to shareholders was on ...

Dalian Wanda Group, a Chinese developer, is investing 1 billion pounds ($1.6 billion) in a British luxury yachtmaker and a London site where it plans to build Western Europe's tallest residential building.

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.

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.

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 ...

Federal Reserve officials both expect and want inflation to be higher than it is. So far, that isn't happening. Consumer price data released Tuesday showed inflation rose a mere 1.4% in May from a year earlier.

Aggreko. �17.52 -39p. Questor says BUY. Aggreko disappointed some with a pre-close trading update on Tuesday in which it said full-year expectations remained unchanged.

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.