Barclays' Antony Jenkins, HSBC's Douglas Flint and Ana Botín at Santander UK tell lawmakers that hedging tools are critical for Britain's small businesses despite past failures.

UK’s largest fixed telecoms company posts gloomy outlook, after recession, regulation and rain hit revenue

Banks encouraged to boost lending but is this wise as outlook for UK economy worsens?

Experts give evidence at parliamentary commission on banking standards joint select committee.

Liberal Democrat business secretary predicts another hung parliament in 2015 at party conference.

Move designed to help SMEs unable to secure credit from existing lenders.

Lloyds bank said it will use Funding for Lending Scheme cash to cut borrowing rates for homebuyers and small businesses

Phillip Monks, head of challenger bank Aldermore, insists small business demanding finance as he signs up for Bank of England's Funding for Lending Scheme.

Barclays reaches out-of-court settlement over interest rate swap agreement dispute ahead of October court hearing.

With the raft of regulatory changes demanding restructuring compliance departments and reporting, it is too much for companies to take?

YouGov finds almost three quarters of smaller businesses rarely or never change banks despite 'unfair' charges and fees.

The technology needed to listen in on someone else's phone calls costs only a few hundred pounds and poses a major threat to corporations and individuals.

Office for National Statistics trade data exposes weakness in UK export market during second quarter as recession continued

Chancellor George Osborne under more pressure as Bank of England predicts near-zero growth for UK economy in 2012.

Chancellor George Osborne wants to increase UK exports, but the slowdown in manufacturing will complicate this ambition.

State-owned RBS sets aside around £310m to cover mis-selling claims and bank system failures that locked-out 15m customers in June.

An IBTimes UK exclusive round-up of the most recent policy statements and rate decisions from the world's key central banks

Chancellor desperate to restore reputation and drag Britain out of recession orders big push from rail investment to Bank of England stimulus.

Google has been reportedly planning to launch a tablet with bigger screen size at 10in.

The U.S. middle market companies is seen growing this year albeit at a slower pace of 7%. This was the result of a survey conducted on the U.S. middle market industry by the National Center for the Middle Market (NCMM) in a project collaboration with the Ohio National State University's Fischer College of Business.

Britain's economy contracted by 0.4 percent in the final quarter of 2011, worse than previously thought, according to revised Office for National Statistics data.

The Bank of England governor Mervyn King warned that two new schemes to get banks lending are not guaranteed to work and help pull the UK out of recession.

Bank downgrades come amid global review by Moody's as IMF says European crisis enters 'critical stage'.

UK inflation has fallen again, giving the Bank of England more to think about in its quantitative easing programme as Britain wallows in recession

George Osborne said he wants the value of UK exports to increase to £1tn by the end of the decade - but the industry is in decline. Here is why.

Chancellor Osborne and Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King to outline new landscape for relationship between City of London, regulators, and government

Savers and taxpayers to be protected from banking crises under new plans, but government softens on capital buffers for global lenders

There is a 50-50 chance of the Bank of England extending its monetary stimulus, according to a poll of economists, hinged on the state of the eurozone

Visionaries from Wonga.com, FundingCircle.com, TransferWise.com and Index Ventures discuss the rise of 'Modern Money'.

The full text of prime minister's speech in Manchester