More than 5,000 foreign criminals have been deported from the UK in the past year, beating a government target, ministers say.

Today George Osborne called for reform of the way in which financial crime is tackled in the UK and a new commitment to prosecuting City criminals, as part of a wider review in to the regulation of the City. He said: “Financial crime cannot be allowed to go unpunished. We have to understand that sometimes what’s

The European Union sets a target of December for negotiating the final details of a new financial supervisory structure for Europe after the UK holds up an agreement at a finance ministers' meeting in Luxembourg

David Cameron last night expressed disbelief that financial watchdogs were not pursuing criminal investigations against banks and bankers who have caused the financial crisis.

Government must therefore set a policy framework that forces the close collaboration of monetary, financial and fiscal policy to induce a sustained rise in credit from our very wounded and risk-averse financial system. The British government, along with other western governments, must replace its redundant inflation target with a target for the growth of the

According to the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, “approximately 80pc of the business conducted by financial services firms in the UK comprises of services offered to non-UK residents That might be a little overstated for effect but still an interesting number. Quite large exporters of financial services,

As has been widely reported, Standard and Poor's (S&P) credit rating agency is under criminal investigation for the "crime" of rating various financial instruments as low risk ("triple A") when, in fact, these financial instruments were based on worthless mortgages (worthless as the original home loans were paid to people who had very little chance of ever paying them back). No doubt S&am...

David Cameron called yesterday for a thorough investigation into the causes of the financial crisis, insisting that City executives should be prosecuted for any criminal wrongdoing.

Banks' cross-border financial transactions are worth billions of dollars in tax benefits, finds joint investigation by the Financial Times and ProPublica

Proposals to overhaul financial regulation in the UK banking sector will be unveiled by the Financial Services Authority.