Sustainable Switch: 'Give us one set of rules,' plead companies
Sharon Kimathi Energy and ESG Editor, Reuters Digital sharon.kimathi@thomsonreuters.com
Read moreSharon Kimathi Energy and ESG Editor, Reuters Digital sharon.kimathi@thomsonreuters.com
Read moreLONDON, June 16 (Reuters) - Britain's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said on Thursday it was writing to more than 3,500 lenders to demand greater support for consumers struggling with soaring costs of living, after uncovering "serious failings" at more than 30 credit providers.
Read moreLONDON, June 16 (Reuters) - Britain's Financial Conduct Authority said on Thursday it was writing to more than 3,500 lenders to demand greater support of consumers struggling with soaring costs of living.
Read moreLONDON, June 15 (Reuters) - Global regulators published a detailed checklist for banks on Wednesday to assess how climate change affects all aspects of their business, including pay and capital, as economies set carbon reduction targets.
Read more(Alliance News) - Stocks in London ended lower on Tuesday with investors seemingly cautious as the US Federal Reserve's policy meeting gets underway as concerns arise that interest rates will be raised aggressively this year in a bid to rein in inflation.
Read more(Alliance News) - Tuesday's dead cat bounce didn't live past the morning in Europe, with the FTSE 100 back in the red at midday as investors fret over an upcoming US interest rate decision.
Read moreLONDON, June 14 (Reuters) - Britain's banks will have to provide more detailed analysis to justify closing a branch, cutting opening hours or converting a free cash machine to pay-to-use, the Financial Conduct Authority proposed on Tuesday.
Read moreJune 14 (Reuters) - UK shares steadied on Tuesday, with some positive impetus from financial stocks and several strong earnings updates, a day after economic slowdown concerns dragged the main British indexes to their fifth straight session of losses.
Read more(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London saw some respite on Tuesday from recent selling pressure, but the mood remained fragile ahead of some key central banking decisions this week.
Read moreJune 14 (Reuters) - UK shares steadied on Tuesday, with some positive impetus from financial stocks and several strong earnings updates, a day after economic slowdown concerns dragged the main British indexes to their fifth straight session of losses.
Read moreSHENZHEN, China, June 13 (Reuters) - David Fong made his way from a poor village in central China to the southern boomtown of Shenzhen as a young man in 1997. Over the next 25 years he worked for a succession of overseas manufacturers before building his own multi-million dollar business making everything from schoolbags to toothbrushes.
Read more(Sharecast News) - A wave of selling swept across government debt markets as economists and traders began to openly ponder the very real possibility that the US central bank's next move on interest rates, next 15 June, should be a 75 basis point hike and not 50bp.
Read moreLONDON, June 10 (Reuters) - The Bank of England is satisfied lenders have taken steps to ensure they are no longer "too big to fail" in any future crisis, it said on Friday, though it did find shortcomings at three leading banks.
Read more(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London were lower at midday on Friday with market focus squarely on the upcoming US consumer price index report at 1330 BST.
Read moreLONDON/BEIJING, June 10 (Reuters) - World stocks hit a two-week low on Friday as rate hike guidance from the European Central Bank and jitters over upcoming U.S. inflation data stoked concerns about global growth, while verbal intervention from Japan boosted the yen
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