Financial crisis
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The Guardian view on HBOS fraud: sex parties, lies and an almighty crashEditorial: This £245m fraud is an insight into the rottenness of British banking – and a warning to us all
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FTSE 100 hit new all-time closing high - as it happenedAll the day’s economic and financial news, as the UK stock market hits a record closing high
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Banking standards: treacherous political waters lie aheadThe system has been safer since the Basel III regulations, but tensions are high between the US and the eurozone – which both have their own preoccupations
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Barclays refuses to settle with US DoJ over 'craptacular loans'Department of Justice accuses bank of using loans from other mortgage lenders as basis of bonds it was selling
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Barclays' defiance of US fines has meritChief executive Jes Staley is risking an open legal battle with the Department of Justice, but he has a case
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From the French right’s selection of Fillon to the Italian referendum and Austrian election, Europe’s centre is oblivious to its own existential crisis. They might want to dust off their copies of Thomas Mann’s Death in VeniceThe European elite have developed a death wish
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He oversaw the Iraq war and calamitous financial deregulation, and did lucrative work for foreign tyrants. No wonder faith in the centre-left has evaporatedTony Blair wonders what’s gone wrong with politics. How sad he can’t see it
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Cyprus, crisis and the bank that came back from the brinkThe country’s biggest lender took cash away from savers to survive in 2013. Now, remarkably, Bank of Cyprus is hoping to float in London
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The cult of the expert and how it collapsed - podcastLed by a class of omnipotent central bankers, experts have gained extraordinary political power. Will a populist backlash shatter their technocratic dream?
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Private investors vow to take RBS to court over £1.25bn claimProtest group reacts after reports that some shareholders are set to settle out of court
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FCA says it is watching algorithmic traders linked to pound's flash crashRegulator’s statement comes after its chief executive, Andrew Bailey, pledges to clean up the scandal-prone City of London
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After eight hard years and a £52bn loss, can RBS ever be privatised?This week’s results for the bailed-out bank are expected to be weak again. Is it now time to contemplate a break-up?
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Self-employed earn less than in 2001 – and will be hit by welfare cutsNumber of people working for themselves up by half in 15 years but their average pay down £60 a week, thinktanks say
Fraud case and falling share price take shine off Lloyds’s farewell to taxpayer