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

The Group of Eight leading industrialized nations agreed to proposals to tackle tax avoidance and evasion that call for new laws to stop businesses from shifting profits across borders and urge greater transparency about company ownership.

Wed Jun 19, 2013 12:24am BST. (Reuters) - Britain's Vodafone Group Plc (VOD.L) has raised its preliminary offer to buy Germany's largest cable operator, Kabel Deutschland Holding AG (KD8Gn.

Young adults face decades of scrimping before having enough money for a deposit to buy their first home, a charity has revealed today.

A call centre made famous by a BBC reality TV series has been fined �225,000 for harassing families with nuisance calls. The BBC has portrayed the company's millionaire boss 'Big Nev' Wilshire as a lovable rogue, a consumer champion and even a hero.

LONDON - London shares closed higher on Tuesday as investors hoped the two-day Federal Reserve Board meeting will not spark too sharp a reduction in the Fed's stimulus programme to shore up the United States economy, dealers said.

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.

Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, said he had won backing from Group of Eight leaders on Tuesday for Tokyo's radical three-pronged stimulus policy, which aims to revitalise the Japanese economy and end almost two decades of deflation.

The polarisation of the high street is showing no signs of slowing as new data reveals that discount chains Aldi and Lidl, along with high end grocer Waitrose, have won more customers this year than any of their supermarket rivals.

When it comes to the high street, few can rival Bill Grimsey's footfall. �Veteran retailer� is the phrase he uses to describe himself on the cover of Sold Out, his hard-hitting manifesto on the future of the high street that is attracting the attention of ministers and ...