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Top 20 highest paid employees now unlikely to be identified unless they have boardroom roles Thousands of the highest-paid bankers in the City look likely to cling on to their anonymity as the government prepares to back down...
Despite a relationship spanning decades, RBS did not tell the chocolate maker of its planned defection until the eleventh hour Royal Bank of Scotland failed until the eleventh hour to inform long-standing client Cadbury it had...
There has been a lot of noise about getting tough with the banks, but it doesn't look like that is going to translate into much-needed action Sir David Walker's review of governance at banks is a key plank in the government's...
The amount of unpaid tax which is being written off by the Government has rocketed to over £11 billion this year while tax revenues plummet because of the recession. By Melissa Kite, Deputy Political Editor Lord Myners said 90...
Isabel Oakeshott and Jonathan Oliver Gordon Brown is facing demands to make Lord Mandelson foreign secretary in a row that risks tearing apart his government. The business secretary is secretly pressing Brown to hold a cabinet...
Thinking of buying a new TV? Fancy another fridge? Keen to start the New Year with a flash car? Anyone considering a big purchase should act soon because a rise in VAT will push up prices by at least 2.5 per cent next year.
Published Date: 22 November 2009 SMART meters will be the biggest revolution in the power industry since North Sea gas was discovered, and legislation enabling their use should be pushed through parliament before the general...
Published Date: 22 November 2009 AMERICAN financial giants and foreign-owned banks with a base in the City are to be targeted by a leading small business organisation which sees them as potential sources of funding as Britain...
Graham Beale is right to raise concerns about the unusually generous interest rates being offered by National Savings & Investments and other state-backed organisations. The Nationwide Building Society chief is being crucified...
Published Date: 21 November 2009 CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling is set to target national insurance and inheritance tax in next month's Pre-Budget Report as he looks to plug gaping holes in the public purse, experts have...
