Two hundred are paid more than £1m despite sanctions-busting exposure

Stuart Gulliver is expected to receive a bonus of around £2 million as part of a total pay and benefits package reportedly worth between £6 million and £7 million for 2012

Stuart Gulliver, the boss of HSBC, will see his pay slashed from a maximum £12.5m in the wake of the bank's £1.5bn US fines for acting as a conduit for drug money and sanctions-busting.

The deal

The Bank of England today took a crucial step towards boosting the City as a centre of trading in the Chinese renminbi after agreeing a currency swap deal with the Bank of China.

With interest rates on accounts so low, it pays to be disciplined about monthly savings

The activist investor Knight Vinke has forced its way on to the board of the electricals retailer Darty, which yesterday issued a profits warning.

Activist investor Knight Vinke has forced its way onto the board of the struggling electricals retailer Darty, which today issued a profits warning.

A pensioner threatened to rape female staff at a bank and members of their families if he was not paid £150,000.

The top two executives at HSBC today admitted it had become a target for international terrorists and cocaine barons as they sought to insist that Britain’s biggest bank was in the midst of serious reform.

No one compares their innocent Co-op cashier with predatory fat cats like Sir Fred Goodwin or Bob Diamond

Too few schools are teaching Mandarin Chinese, hampering young people's prospects and putting the UK economy at risk, it was suggested today.

Royal Bank of Scotland has moved to calm investor fears over the future of its chief executive Stephen Hester, as chairman Sir Philip Hampton privately promised shareholders Mr Hester will stay well into next year. The news comes as the taxpayer-owned bank is expected to be hit with a £500m fine by US and UK regulators this week, just as it pays bankers £250m in bonuses.