The rise of the mass affluent - wealth management and private banking services - Statistical Data Included
More people than ever have money to invest. To cater for them, banks have devised a new must-have - wealth management. It is tempting to think of bankers, those models of sobriety, as resistant t

Watch out-the fat lady's clearing her throat - banking industry in United Kingdom
With debts rising and a recession looming, Britain's banks could provide the setting for an opera of Wagnerian proportions. Wagner really should have ...

Abbey ready to accept pounds 8.6bn bid from Spain's biggest bank
ABBEY NATIONAL is expected this morning to accept a formal bid from Spain's biggest bank, Santander Central Hispano, to buy the British mortgage lender ...