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More than half a million people will be able to take advantage of the government's changing regulation around pensions from 6 April, according to latest official estimates.

HSBC's senior executives have apologised to a committee of MPs for the failings in its Swiss private banking arm which meant clients avoided paying millions in tax.

New documents show the Bank of England was seemingly unaware of the impending financial crisis in the weeks prior to its emergence.

The government has recovered a further £1.3bn from the Landsbanki estate in Iceland, which operated as Icesave in the UK, following its collapse at the height of the financial crisis.

The UK government is to sell another tranche of shares in Lloyds Banking Group as it moves to return the bank to private ownership.

The Scottish government could issue bonds from next April after the Treasury confirmed it had begun a formal process to introduce legislation to that effect.

The government is to pay off part of the UK's First World War debt, as part of a redemption of bonds stretching as far back as the 18th century.

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UK public borrowing rose more than expected in August, figures released by the government today have revealed.

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