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Top bank traders face pay disclosure

UK banks will be forced to disclose the pay and bonuses of star traders under plans to improve the way the City of London’s biggest financial institutions are run

Fears for free banking from court case

The end of free banking could be nigh, as the banking industry awaits a ruling this week on overdraft charges that could result in pay-outs of hundreds of millions to customers

Lloyds’ CoCos prove popular

Lloyds shareholders are to meet at EGM and approve both the CoCo transaction and a proposed £13.5bn rights issue

Rockspring buys distressed RBS assets

The property fund manager, agrees to buy a portfolio of UK industrial properties from Royal Bank of Scotland, in one of the first deals to take distressed assets from a UK lender

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Brussels and Treasury hand rivals a stick to beat RBS

Lombard

The ‘behavioural’ conditions imposed on Royal Bank of Scotland’s global banking and markets team were part of the swamp of detail on how its competitive position should be hobbled, says Andrew Hill

Inequity injection

UK taxpayers are offloading less risk than meets the eye in the deals with Lloyds and RBS. Their exposure is not ended, only made less visible – and provided free of charge

Battle for Britain’s banking system: a casualty list

This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning. Andrew Hill asks, who will come out best from the battle for Britain’s banks?

Lloyds Banking Group

The UK bank’s chief executive is sticking to his mantra: the worst is behind us. But is that the case?

HMS Lloyds

The UK government has much to do if its big banks are ever to operate under their own steam without government support

Darling, you know how to make a bank happy

Lombard

Chancellor of the exchequer, Alistair Darling, is set to hand the recalcitrant Lloyds Banking Group the get out of jail (almost) free card it was angling for – and a few bells and whistles, too

Softer landing means a delay to vulture funds’ feast

Stephen Hester, chief executive of RBS, has given the clearest indication yet there could be a softer landing than feared for a property industry facing up to the reality of its £225bn of outstanding debt

Watchdog’s failure to act on lost savings says it all

Thousands of investors who invested in structured products are still waiting for concrete action from the FSA, writes Ed Vaizey

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Bank Street

Take a walk down Bank Street and follow the fortunes of some of the world’s largest banks as they navigate the global financial crisis

Are European banks too big to fail?

Examines relative size of business and government

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Lloyds Banking Group

The UK bank’s chief executive is sticking to his mantra: the worst is behind us. But is that the case?

The UK’s ‘light-touch’ asset protection scheme

The Treasury, desperate to bury ‘light-touch’ regulation, must have winced when Stephen Hester hailed the new ‘light-touch’ asset protection scheme

Privatising UK banks

The Tories have said that if they win next year’s elections, they might sell the government’s stakes in Lloyds Banking Group and RBS to the public

UK banks

From its unintended position deep within the UK banking sector labyrinth, the government is hunting for the exit signs

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