The Government's claim that Britain is one of the better performers among the advanced economies has received a boost from the OECD.

Prudential boss Tidjane Thiam is due to earn a pay package worth up to £5.2m this year as he spearheads the biggest takeover in the insurer's history.

Gordon Brown has confirmed the General Election will be held on 6 May, with the state of the economy and the future of financial services regulation to be the key manifesto targets.

The sudden drop in Gartmore's share price following the announcement today of fund manager Guillaume Rambourg's suspension has been illustrated in a dramatic 'cliff edge' graph.

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has been slapped with a £28.6m Office of Fair Trading (OFT) fine for breaching competition rules.

The proposed interim levy on the investment intermediary sub-class in 2009/10 following the failures of Keydata and two stockbrokers has been cut from £70m to £58m, although the structured product-related charge has increased by £2m, the FSCS confirms...

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A £20bn bailout plan to help debt-laden Greece has been agreed by all 16 eurozone countries.

Alistair Darling admitted last night that Labour's planned cuts in public spending will be "deeper and tougher" than Margaret Thatcher's in the 1980s, as the country's leading experts on tax and spending warned that Britain faces "two parliaments of pain"...

"Mr Deputy Speaker, this Budget takes place as the UK economy is emerging from the deepest global recession for over 60 years...