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Financial sector

April 2024

  • A visual representation of bitcoin

    What is bitcoin halving – and will it affect the price?

  • Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves on stage against a red and black background

    Top Labour figures met financial services firms after £150k donation

  • Neil Woodford smiling in front of a screen with analytics information on it

    Neil Woodford’s understanding of risk ‘defective’, FCA says

  • Jacob Rees-Mogg

    Profits in Rees-Mogg’s investment firm halved in year before closure announced

  • While we focus on Dominic West in a banned advert, the banks are short-changing us all

    Hannah Dewhirst
  • The world has changed. So why do businessmen still think they can harass women at work parties?

    Stefan Stern

March 2024

  • Terry Smith leans on a aeroplane

    Star stock-picker Terry Smith’s equity fund downgraded by ratings firm

  • A Virgin Money sign with a smartphone showing the nationwide app in the foreground

    Nationwide agrees £2.9bn deal to take over Virgin Money

  • The Nationwide sign and logo displayed over a branch

    Nationwide faces mounting calls to give members say on Virgin Money takeover

  • a credit card touches a payment terminal

    Millions more in cash needed to fund UK’s open-banking watchdog

  • MPs call for crackdown on NDAs after bullying inquiry in UK financial sector

  • UK Insolvency Service seeks up to 15-year director ban for Lex Greensill

  • Dozens of ‘major’ compliance breaches at Bank of England, NAO reports

  • Sexism in the City: ‘No matter how hard I work, they will never ever recognise me’

  • UK regional growth gap to widen as London pulls further ahead

February 2024

  • Cyclists ride e-bikes past the headquarters of NatWest bank in London in 2023.

    Jeremy Hunt to announce UK government sale of NatWest shares

    State’s one-third share in the bank, now worth about £6.7bn, is left over from the 84% holding taken during the 2008 financial crisis
  • Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves visit the London stock exchange on 22 September 2023.

    Why does Labour need to suck up to the City? Britain’s economy is already stifled by finance

    Nicholas Shaxson
    In power, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves will regret falling for propaganda about ‘competitiveness’, says Nicholas Shaxson, director at the Balanced Economy Project
    • Viewpoint column
      A quiet conspiracy is afoot to give FTSE 100 executives a pay rise

      Nils Pratley
    • Jacob Rothschild, financier and member of the banking family, dies at 87

    • FCA’s pay levels ‘could force its staff to rely on hardship fund’

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