Mortgage business has picked up slightly this year compared with the low level of transactions witnessed in 2011, and during 2013 I expect to see this number edge higher still.

Spain's largest bank, Santander, is taking full ownership of its 90 per cent-owned subsidiary Banesto, the latest move in a round of consolidation among the country's lenders.

One in six homes will be empty over Christmas and New Year

Mis-selling scandals have failed to stop banks pressurising their staff into pushing products which may be unsuitable, Which? claims.

The Government's flagship Funding for Lending Scheme (FLS), designed to boost the sickly economy, has got off to an underwhelming start.

The Government's flagship Funding for Lending Scheme, designed to boost the sickly economy, has got off to an underwhelming start.

The Government’s flagship Funding for Lending Scheme, designed to boost the sickly economy, has got off to an underwhelming start.

Taxpayer-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland is to wind down its operations in India after a deal to sell the business to HSBC struck two years ago collapsed.

NatWest became the latest major lender to stop offering interest- only mortgages this week, and was swiftly followed by the Coventry Building Society.

Nationwide, Britain's biggest customer-owned financial services group, is interested in bidding for 316 branches being sold by Royal Bank of Scotland to speed up its expansion into lending to small and medium-sized businesses.

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What's this, a new mis-selling scandal?

Britain's banks face a new £200m bill for mis-selling after the Financial Services Authority (FSA) yesterday fined the country's biggest provider of card and identity theft insurance a record £10.5m.