LONDON London-listed litigation funder Burford Capital said it has found evidence of suspect trading patterns in its shares around the time short-seller Muddy Waters issued a report challenging the company's accounts last week.
LONDON Royal Bank of Scotland on Friday said deteriorating economic conditions before Brexit were likely to derail next year's profitability and cost targets after it reported strong first-half results, including a 1.7 billion pound dividend. | Video
LONDON Royal Bank of Scotland on Friday said deteriorating economic conditions before Brexit were likely to derail next year's profitability and cost targets after it reported strong first-half results, including a 1.7 billion pound dividend. | Video
LONDON Britain's financial complaints body encouraged consumers on Friday to lodge claims for mis-sold loan insurance ahead of an Aug. 29 deadline, despite criticism from some banks that a majority of the claims were "vexatious".
LONDON, Aug 2 Royal Bank of Scotland on Friday said deteriorating economic conditions before Brexit were likely to derail next year's profitability and cost targets after it reported strong first-half results, including a 1.7 billion pound dividend.
(This August 1 story amends capitalisation of Tradeweb in para 17)
LONDON Lloyds Banking Group played down mounting concerns about Britain's Brexit crisis as it missed first-half profit forecasts due to a much larger than expected charge for mis-selling insurance.
LONDON Barclays , JP Morgan , RBS , UBS and Citigroup are being sued by investors over allegations they rigged the global foreign exchange market, in a test of U.S.-style class actions in Britain. | Video
* Banks have previously paid out $11bn in fines for FX rigging
LONDON Shares in troubled British lender Metro Bank plunged by almost a fifth in early trading on Thursday after it said customers had pulled 2 billion pounds ($2.5 billion) out of the bank this year following a major accounting error in January.
Italy's prime minister announced his resignation on Tuesday as he made a blistering attack on his own interior minister, Matteo Salvini, accusing him of sinking the ruling coalition and endangering the economy for personal and political gain.