The Scottish Affairs Committee will call on the Government to clarify big questions about a possible break-up of the union, which are making people “confused and concerned” on both sides of the border. Scotland’s national debt is one of the most pressing

BOB Diamond certainly doesn't need the money. But at the end of last week, the big-jawed American boss of Barclays Bank took his share of a £1.5bn bonus pool. Estimates put his own cut at somewhere above £3 million. Even after the de-knighting of "Sir" F

The impending £2bn deal between bank software providers Misys and Temenos is being treated by British authorities as a takeover by the Swiss-listed group. The so-called merger of equals between British software firm Misys and its Geneva-based rival had b

LONDON – U.K. lender Lloyds TSB Bank PLC (LGY) priced its new subordinated Tier 2 bonds as a part of its planned exchange offer, one of the banks running the sale said Friday. The bank offered investors holding Tier 1 notes issued by HBOS Euro Finance th

Don't believe he myth that Barclays didn’t benefit from state support. Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond is thought to have received a bonus of just under £1m. Photograph: Getty Images. It's payday for the man Peter Mandelson once described as the "un

Direct comparisons between Lloyds and RBS are not straightforward: Lloyds inherited 80% of its impairment charges as a result of the rescue of HBOS, Royal Bank of Scotland's losses were mostly homegrown How much will it cost to clean up Lloyds Banking Gr