Some 110,000 higher-earning parents who receive child benefit payments face a fine if they fail to register for, and return, tax self-assessment forms.

Labour is considering a limit on the market share of individual High Street banks as part of efforts to increase competition for customers.

Five UK lenders are to add a facility allowing users to make instant payments via their smartphone apps later this year.

Labour urges Chancellor George Osborne to block any attempt by Royal Bank of Scotland to pay bonuses up to double their staff's annual salary.

US carmaker General Motors says it will resume dividend payments, capping a successful recovery since it was bailed out by the government in 2009.

The billionaire creator of Beanie Babies toys avoids prison for hiding millions of dollars from US tax authorities in a Swiss bank account.

Facebook agrees a deal to share public data from its users in some countries with Yandex - Russia's largest search engine.

Hundreds of thousands of people have taken out a payday loan to meet rent or mortgage payments, research for the housing charity Shelter suggests.