‘JPMorgan has crossed a line’: How Altice’s debts ensnared US banking giant
US bank stepped into messy confrontation between billionaire Patrick Drahi and aggrieved Wall Street funds
Posted on Friday December 12, 2025Nationwide fined £44mn over failings that led to fake Covid furlough payouts
UK regulator says building society lacked effective systems in monitoring customers’ transactions
Posted on Friday December 12, 2025‘Affordability is off the scale’: Belfast’s red-hot rental market
Northern Ireland’s gentrifying capital of swagger and soul is reeling as rents rise faster than anywhere in the UK
Posted on Friday December 12, 2025UBS shares hit 17-year high on hopes of watered down capital reforms
Investor optimism has been fuelled by a compromise proposed by Swiss political parties
Posted on Friday December 12, 2025Former ANZ chief sues over axed $9mn bonus
Australian bank had cut incentives after scandals under Shayne Elliott’s watch
Posted on Friday December 12, 2025The Trump administration’s challenge is Trump
Convoluted messaging and conflicting policies have been hallmarks of the president’s year
Posted on Friday December 12, 2025Ukraine would join EU next year under draft peace plan
Move backed by Brussels would transform the bloc’s approach to admitting new members
Posted on Friday December 12, 2025Russia sues Euroclear over frozen assets
Legal challenge is first shot across the bows as Brussels aims to use funds for €90bn loan to Ukraine
Posted on Friday December 12, 2025The UK economy is not nearly as bad as you’ve been told
A huge pessimistic bias in our national accounts leads us to doom and gloom which turns out to be nonsense
Posted on Friday December 12, 2025UK economy contracts by 0.1% in October
Analysts and ONS cite uncertainty ahead of Rachel Reeves’ tax-raising Budget
Posted on Friday December 12, 2025