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Published Date: 22 November 2009 LLOYDS Banking Group shareholders will gather in Birmingham on Thursday to decide whether to give it the green light for a further capital raising exercise and approve a £13.5 billion rights...
Inside knowledge: John Kingman will become the new managing director of NM Rothschild The civil servant who oversaw the taxpayers’ stake in Britain’s crisis-hit banks is at the centre of a conflict-of-interest row after it...
These days the toughest critics of extending women’s rights are not men – but women Maternity leave is too generous. Such women should not be entitled to the same rights as divorcing wives, Deech said in a lecture, because they...
Joanne Hart, Investment Editor of Financial Mail The Mail on Sunday's share-tipping column reports on a five-year plan at TT Electronics that could deliver results and updates on Kewill Systems. Against this backdrop, the Midas...
State-backed savings providers have in some cases become more competitive in the past year, according to analysts, but there is little evidence to suggest they consistently offer the highest deposit rates, writes Steve Lodge....
Nationwide Building Society has revealed a big fall in profits and painted a gloomy economic picture. Nationwide made £143m in the six months to October, down almost two-thirds from £374m. Boss Graham Beale accused ministers of...
Tesco has moved a step closer to becoming a full-service bank by signing up software developer Fiserv to provide the technology for its fledgling financial services business. Shopping list: Tesco has moved a step closer to...
One of the Britain’s most generous savings products has been pulled abruptly from the market by the state-run National Savings & Investments (NS&I) after only 24 days amid complaints from rival banks and building societies.
Despite the downturn, it is an investment that has been as safe as houses, rising by an average of 111% over the decade, reports Rupert Jones Forget the stockmarket and high-interest savings accounts – the best place for your...
Mortgage brokers have been badly hit by the credit crunch, with more than half of intermediaries going out of business in the past two years. There are now only 12,500 brokers offering independent mortgage advice in the UK,...
