Barclays Bank

Barclays could be poised to swoop on one of Spain's troubled regional banks in a multi-billion pound rescue deal, according to reports.

Barclays' decision to cut 500 positions in its corporate banking business has meant job losses in the UK banking sectors have hit almost 1,400 this week.

High street banks have attracted 1,163 complaints over data breaches in a year according to consumer group Which?

Lloyds Banking Group, the worst offender in the payment protection insurance (PPI) mis-selling scandal, has been named Bank of the Year by the CBI.

Peter Hargreaves and Stephen Lansdown are now amongst the UK's 100 wealthiest people, according to the Sunday Times Rich List 2011.

Barclays has abandoned its legal challenge against PPI mis-selling and set aside £1bn to cover customer redress and administration costs.

Corporate bond ETFs are increasing in popularity as investors seek yield amid a low interest rate environment. Yet index weightings are coming into question, as Emma Cusworth reports

Portugal's caretaker prime minister Jose Socrates has announced he has reached agreement on a bail-out from the EU and the International Monetary Fund.

Lehman Brothers Holdings is claiming $500m from Barclays for allegedly failing to pay all of the bonuses agreed to when it bought the defunct investment firm's North American business.

Barclays Capital has launched a suite of commodity exchange-traded notes (ETNs) in the US, which aim to mitigate the disproportionate effects of supply and demand on commodity performance.