Rail bosses challenge claims over HS2 budget

It is designed to help users sleep better, exercise more effectively and stay away from unhealthy food

Outlook When does lobbying become undue influence? Sir Mervyn King certainly appears to feel that the activities of the banks have been straying into the territory of the latter when it comes to their battling against the Bank of England's demands that they hold more capital.

Outgoing Governor says world economy still far too weak to allow interest rate rises

George Osborne was challenged over whether he gave in to intense lobbying by bankers to force regulators to water down demands for banks to raise more capital to protect themselves against future shocks.

Marks & Spencer Bank has replenished its board after the departure of the former Co-op Bank boss Neville Richardson.

The bosses of Lloyds Banking Group have denied that they were told by politicians to favour the sale of more than 600 branches to the Co-op over rival bidders.

The Treasury intervened to prevent the Financial Policy Committee from instructing Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds to raise new equity capital, it emerged in public testimony from a member of the committee yesterday. The revelation is likely to fuel the debate about the political independence of the FPC.

Andrew Tyrie has called European policymakers' attempts to regulate insurers "an object lesson in how not to make law".

The bovver boys have finally donned their hobnailed boots and headed off down to Royal Bank of Scotland's headquarters to create a ruckus in the wake of last year's IT snafu that left some customers locked out of their accounts for a month or more.

Calls are growing for the bank's former bosses, Sir James Crosby and Lord Stevenson, to be stripped of their titles

'Actions and omissions' that led to crisis will be investigated by judges

Eric Daniels, the former chief executive of Lloyds Banking Group, showed yesterday that being discredited in the public eye is no barrier to lucrative new roles in finance.

Cuts in interest rates to zero per cent or less would be a further blow to savers already facing paltry returns, says Emma Dunkley