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A test case involving a challenge to the 2010 Bribery Act has been considered inside government after complaints about confusion and the damage to exports.

Investment intentions among small companies are continuing to fall despite an improvement in business confidence, as difficulties in accessing finance continue to put the brakes on growth.

With America creating jobs fast, some are starting to worry about inflation taking hold. Stagnating Britain can only wish it had such a problem

Banks face having to increase the amount of capital they hold against their loan book after a commission of MPs and peers said the current arrangements were still too risky.

Four train companies have started legal proceedings against the government after it cancelled the bidding process for a rail franchise and then refused to pay compensation.

Retailer says staff will all receive bonus worth 17% of salary, higher than last year

Barclays chief executive Antony Jenkins has suggested that up to 40,000 jobs could be cut at the bank as customers switch to automated banking, according to reports.

Banks could be hit with billions of pounds in new losses under changes to the way they are required to account for assets, in a move intended to make the financial system less prone to a crisis.

Mervyn King says current situation ‘nonsense’ as he lays bare his disagreement with George Osborne over RBS’s future

David Cameron will say on Thursday that there are finally signs “we can turn our economy round” – warning that the Government will not change strategy in the forthcoming Budget.

The government is expected to announce stricter rules for high cost, short-term lenders.

FSA chairman Lord Turner says regulator was ‘too narrowly focused’ on banking crisis to notice that traders were fixing rates

Tech company’s stock price hit all-time high in September with $705.07 per share, but stocks now at 52-week low

Britain’s banks and building societies drew £13.8bn from the state-backed Funding for Lending cheap credit scheme (FLS) in its first five months of operation, but cut loans to households and businesses by almost £2bn.

António Horta-Osório gets bonus even if third of taxpayer’s shares are sold for considerably less than was paid for them – while £1.5bn PPI provision drags bank to £570m loss