* ECB, Bank of England reduce rates to record lows * BoE unveils bigger-than-expected plan to buy bonds * Euro-zone GDP shrinks 1.3 percent in Q4 * GM auditors warn about viability of automaker *...
LONDON, Feb 19 - Britain's Serious Fraud Office is monitoring a possible link from the scandal surrounding Texas billionaire Allen Stanford after media reports that his firm was audited from the United Kingdom. Antigua-based accounting...
GRIMSBY, England, Feb 18 - At the Job Centre in Grimsby, a hard-knock town on Britain's east coast, security guards man the doors. Inside the government-run office, dozens of men and women, many in their...
LONDON, Jan 21 - The chairman of the British parliament's Treasury Committee urged the government on Wednesday to nationalise Royal Bank of Scotland <RBS.L> and Lloyds Banking Group <LLOY.L> as the global financial crisis deepens....
LONDON, Oct 12 - The Icelandic government has appointed lawyers to look at suing the British government over comments made about a UK subsidiary of Kaupthing Bank, a day before it collapsed, a media report...
LONDON, Oct 8 - Britain's finance minister Alistair Darling will announce a rescue package for the banking system on Wednesday, a move likely to include a major injection of capital into banks, a government source...
TORNESS, Scotland, Sept 24 - Peering down from a viewing gallery high up in Torness nuclear power station, plant director Brian Cowell points out a turbine about the size of a large off-road vehicle. "That...
LONDON, Sept 21 - Britain's prime minister and chief financial regulator took aim at wealthy bankers and traders on Sunday, calling for big-money bonuses to be examined in the wake of the financial market crisis....
* Britain most at risk of losing AAA * Pound down more than a cent after UK rating comment * May review Japan rating if JGB issuance rises by much * No near-term risk to...
ZURICH, Nov 8 - Authorities in Britain and Australia have requested information from UBS after the Swiss bank agreed in August to disclose some 4,450 client names to settle a U.S. tax case, the bank...