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Germany has slashed its growth forecast for this year as it struggles with a lack of skilled labor, excessive bureaucracy, high interest rates and lagging investment in new projects

The DWP will be able to see all of your bank transactions

Major bank and lender HSBC has today pulled its 3.99% five-year fixed rate remortgage deal, meaning the last sub-4% offering has now disappeared from the market

Constance Marten, who is on trial for causing the death of her baby Victoria, received a payment of £47,886 from C. Hoare & Co solicitors between September 1 2022 and January 17 2023, a court heard

An MPs group said debanking is causing certain ethnic, industry or political groups to be "frozen out" of the UK's banking system

Lloyds has become the first UK bank to set aside hundreds of millions of pounds in case it has to compensate car finance customers, amid a major investigation into whether people overpaid on their loans

The uprating follows similar moves by other lenders this week, including Santander, Coventry, and TSB.

Lloyds Banking Group was the last to report its annual results as it today revealed it made a record £7.5billion last year - a more than 50% leap on 2022

The bank said its pre-tax profit surged by nearly 80% to top £24 billion in 2023, up from £13.6 billion the year before

Martin Lewis has explained how there are three different types of regular payments that you should be aware of - and warned how millions of people may be wasting money

The banking group said it made a pre-tax profit of £7.5 billion over 2023, rising by 57% compared with the £4.8 billion made in 2022, and coming in ahead of analysts' expectations

The DWP (Department for Work and Pensions) has issued a bank warning to all benefit claimants ahead of a clampdown on benefit fraud, in which it will check data of some claimants

The bank is aiming to save about £1 billion from making the bank more efficient this year, and targeting about £2 billion worth of savings in total by 2026

This account is free for 18 to 25-year-olds and can be managed alongside their everyday banking in the Lloyds Bank app

The former chairman of the Bank of China has been indicted on bribery charges, prosecutors said Monday, adding to a long list of business and government officials who have been brought down by Chinese leader Xi Jinping's anticorruption drive

Charlotte Cox landed £1million from a scratch card she bought and scratched while with partner Michael Cartlidge in Spalding, Lincolnshire - but now he claims he has a stake after it was his idea and he tried to pay for it

Conservative MP Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg took aim at the Bank of England's response to economic events as Labour used a Commons urgent question to raise concerns over the UK falling into recession

In the last quarter, its profit dropped by 92% from £1.3 billion the previous year to £110 million

The DWP has warned that a "small number" of payments may not go through automatically - however, they have plans in place to make sure everyone gets their money

The group, which helps customers compare deals, reported an 8% rise in pre-tax profits to £92.1 million for 2023, with sales up 11% at £432.1 million

South Yorkshire Police have released a CCTV image of a man they want to speak to in relation to an elderly man getting cruelly defrauded out of £22,000 in Rotherham

A New York judge on Friday spared the ex-president that worst case punishment as he ruled in a civil case alleging Trump fraudulently misrepresented financial figures to get cheaper loans and other benefits.

Nathan Lee Davies gave up social activities for years - instead saving up the money to spend on a dream trip. But when he told his support worker the council demanded the money back

John Fillingham, 80, says his mental health was left "in tatters" after falling for the scam in April 2019 which saw him transfer £17,000 to scammers after they pretended to be his bank

The bank reported a pre-tax profit of £6.2 billion for 2023, which is the highest since the £9.9 billion made just before the global financial crisis in 2007