Lloyds Banking Group

One man is offering you the chance to win £250,000 and all you have to do is answer one simple question: how do you manage a country's orderly exit from the euro?

Banks shares extended losses this afternoon as Fitch Ratings downgraded Lloyds and RBS' long-term credit rating from AA- to A and placed Barclays on a negative watch.

News that Greece will fail to meet deficit reduction targets pushed the FTSE 100 down 2.8% at open, dragging it below 5,000 points.

Recent rate rises on expat savings accounts is seeing annual interest rates of over 4 per cent now on offer on 5 year fixed term deals. And rates are beginning to rise on shorter term deposits.

More complaints were made about Barclays than any other banking brand by UK customers in the first half of the year, FSA figures show.

Scottish Widows has lost a case against Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in the Supreme Court.

Tim Tookey, Lloyds' finance director, is to resign to become chief financial officer at Friends Life.

Banks led markets sharply lower in early trading after a long-awaited report from Sir John Vickers and the Independent Commission on Banking proposed a radical shake-up of the sector.

The UK's banks face an annual bill as high as £7bn to comply with the reforms of the Vickers Commission, according to the panel's final report published today.

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) this week published its latest complaints data for individual financial businesses. Here are some of the stand-out stats...