With a multitude of open avenues for litigation, here are the key areas that banks should keep tabs on in the coming year.

The anti-fraud duty has gained recent prominence as upcoming legal challenges threaten to increase banks’ responsibilities in the context of increasingly sophisticated fraud.

With AML compliance at the top of the FCA’s enforcement agenda for this year, we highlight important focus points for banks and other regulated firms operating in the UK.

In the race for ‘turbocharged’ economic growth, is the UK putting its reputation for gold-plated financial services rules, which kept risky behaviours in check, on the line? 

The gilt market spiral in September, which created a material risk to UK financial stability, has brought defined benefit pension schemes under greater regulatory scrutiny. 

A culture of late payments by bigger companies is leaving small businesses struggling to get by.

Amid a hastening surge of big tech firms into the financial services space, the question of regulatory reform is becoming ever more critical.

Layoffs are rising as an economic downturn looms. Employers must take care if they are to make their own redundancies.

An open letter addressed to the UK’s central bank offers a warning on – and solution to – the “finance-climate doom loop” threatening economic stability.

Can a focus on digital and a fresh emphasis on ethical finance revitalise the UK's Islamic finance industry?