BNP Paribas officials told the Dutch government that they are interested in buying state-owned lender ABN Amro. The first major cross-border deal with the combination of France’s biggest bank by market capitalisation and the third-largest bank...

Like many central banks around the world, the Bank of England is grappling with a surge in inflation triggered by the stimulus-aided rebound from the coronavirus pandemic, supply-chain disruptions, and soaring energy prices.

Starling Bank, a start-up, founded by Anne Boden in 2014, has agreed to acquire a mortgage book worth about £500mn as the digital challenger attempts to broaden its assets beyond Covid-19 loans. It is buying the loan portfolio from specialist...

Consider this - the 2005 election gave Labour 355 MPs over Conservative’s 197 and an overall Parliamentary majority of 66. But this hides exactly the advantages in our electoral system which is locking in Labour. First, Labour’s dispersion of...