Healey warns banks that UK faces ‘challenging’ fiscal picture but stays tight-lipped on tax

Chancellor refuses to give executives from banks including Barclays, HSBC and NatWest any guidance on whether they will face Budget tax increases

Posted on Tuesday October 06, 2026

Palmer Luckey’s Erebor surges to more than $7bn in deposits since launch

Start-up bank for technology industry seeks to fill the void left by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank

Posted on Tuesday October 06, 2026

Billionaire Newhouse family rules out Condé Nast sale

Steven Newhouse says publishing dynasty will not give up magazines including Vogue, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair

Posted on Tuesday October 06, 2026

France’s BPCE buys ‘friendly’ stake in Spain’s Sabadell

7% acquisition bolsters Spanish bank a year after hostile approach from domestic rival BBVA collapsed

Posted on Tuesday October 06, 2026

AI models used in bank cyber attacks, warns South Korea’s president

Lee Jae Myung highlights public anxiety over what one official calls a ‘completely new kind of crisis’

Posted on Tuesday October 06, 2026

Healey warns banks that UK faces ‘challenging’ fiscal picture but stays tight-lipped on tax

Chancellor refuses to give executives from banks including Barclays, HSBC and NatWest any guidance on whether they will face Budget tax increases

Posted on Tuesday October 06, 2026

California’s oligarch tax would change America

The goal of its framers is political rather than budgetary

Posted on Tuesday October 06, 2026

France’s Le Pen pledges to rein in public spending

Far-right presidential frontrunner wants to cap borrowing at 60% of GDP and reduce budget deficit but analysts are sceptical about feasibility

Posted on Tuesday October 06, 2026

Former German spy chief arrested for treason

Ex-intelligence head August Hanning suspected of selling state secrets to foreign power

Posted on Tuesday October 06, 2026

How Sainsbury’s rediscovered its appetite for supermarket megadeals

Talks with Morrisons reflect Sainsbury’s renewed confidence that regulators would approve a deal to consolidate industry

Posted on Tuesday October 06, 2026