The British government said yesterday it has further reduced its stake in Lloyds Banking Group, a day after the bank posted its highest profit since before the 2007 to 2009 global financial crisis.

The Drums’ frontman Jonathan Pierce has alienated his pastor parents by turning his back on religion, says Ed Power

The FTSE 100 Index slipped more than 1% by noon today as weakness in banking stocks offset one of the London market's biggest takeover deals of recent times.

Embattled buy-to-let specialist Bradford & Bingley's prospects as a standalone lender are looking bleak, City analysts warned today.

UK banking giants are understood to have forked out an estimated £200m (€297m) so far this year on settling claims relating to “unfair” overdraft fee and interest charges, according to a recent report.