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HSBC and First Trust Bank guilty of breaching competition rules

22 Oct 2014: CMA finds banks ‘bundling’ – telling small businesses they must open a current account in order to take out a loan
Bank of England deputy governor condemns EU bonus cap

16 Oct 2014: Bailey calls debate on restricting payouts to bankers ‘misguided’ after EBA warns banks to stop handing out top-up allowances
Wonga appoints debt management expert as new finance director

16 Oct 2014: Payday lender hires Capquest Group’s Paul Miles, having written off loans of 330,000 borrowers earlier this month
Banks face crackdown over EU bonus cap

15 Oct 2014: EBA opinion has implications for 39 banks, raising prospect of thousands of bankers being denied any further top-ups in pay
Investment scam potential victims subject of new campaign

15 Oct 2014: Financial Conduct Authority to use money recovered from financial crime to try to end £1.2bn lost to investment fraud
Parents’ long wait for truth on baby’s death may be over

14 Oct 2014: Historic complaints such as that of Anne and Graeme Dixon’s fight to find out what happened to their daughter are to be investigated after review of health ombudsman
Tesco suspends three more senior staff over profits scandal

14 Oct 2014: Supermarket asks three senior staff to ‘step aside’ during inquiry into accounting scandal that has knocked 20% off share price
Jean Tirole wins Nobel prize for economics 2014

13 Oct 2014: French economics professor wins for his work on market power and regulation, and his work taming powerful firms
Bonfire of red tape proposed in 'bid to keep Britain in EU'

12 Oct 2014: Guardian told that Edmund Stoiber’s proposals are partly aimed at keeping the UK part of the European Union
Dedication, that’s what you need to be a banker

12 Oct 2014: Simon Goodley: Potentially record-breaking crowd of offenders against regulation of all kinds to gather at British Bankers’ Association conference this week
Scottish Power customers’ fight goes on – despite ombudsman’s ruling

11 Oct 2014: We speak to three customers trying to get correct bills – and the compensation they are owed– from Scottish Power
Flight attendants argue for reinstatement of ban on cellphones

10 Oct 2014: Union argues that flying phones and distracted passengers pose risks but judges signal they won’t stow mobiles
Payday loans shaken up by competition regulator

9 Oct 2014: Competition and Markets Authority wants clearer fees and charges and for consumers to be able to compare deals online
Does microfinance really help poor people?

Guardian Professional, 8 Oct 2014: Despite its claims, financial inclusion is failing to empower the marginalised. We need independent regulation, writes Hugh Sinclair
HSBC directors to quit over threat to jail bosses for banking crises

7 Oct 2014: Alan Thomson leaves this month and John Trueman ready to quit amid plans to make executives criminally liable if a bank fails