A leading shareholder advisory firm in the US has called on Goldman Sachs investors to vote against the bank's executive compensation proposals because the bank has failed to "link pay with performance".

Outlook Royal Bank of Scotland might be through the worst, but it remains very much a work in progress. If anyone was in any doubt about that fact, the chief executive, Stephen Hester, made it clear yesterday when he told the bank's annual meeting that it could take 18 months to plug what amounts to a black hole in its balance sheet.

The number of first-time buyers jumped 20 per cent in March as the Bank of England's Funding for Lending scheme helped the mortgage market.

Payouts by the 81% state-owned bank have infuriated investors

Channel 4 paid increased bonuses to its bosses last year despite the state-owned broadcaster going £27 million into the red, its annual report reveals today.

Bloomberg apologised after the financial news agency let its reporters access clients' information

Somehow, it’s already the middle of 2013. We’ve survived apocalypse scares, generated celebrities who are more influential than politicians, and grown into adulthood without everything we’ve forgotten about Egyptian pharaohs from primary school being a hindrance to everyday life.

The number of first-time buyers increased by 20% in March according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders.

The starting pistol was fired on the race to find the next chairman of Lloyds Banking Group yesterday as the current chairman, Sir Win Bischoff, 72, said he wanted to retire no later than next year's annual meeting.

Eurozone finance ministers were last night squabbling in Brussels over the timetable for a banking union, with some states pushing for faster progress and Germany stressing the need for caution.

Should you be standing with Standard Chartered after last week's less than stellar trading update? The market tells its own story. The shares have been on the skids since it was issued. In fact they've been trending down for a while.

At first, I barely even noticed the oil palm plantation. For first timers it’s not what you would initially associate with deforestation

Campaign group Global Witness releases satirical film featuring BBC presenter

Bloomberg was today forced to issue a grovelling apology to clients for its “inexcusable” decision to let its journalists use internal customer information in a scandal that has rocked Wall Street and the City.