All the headlines from our Uk Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 21 2012 // While banks appear to be brushing off record fines for rigging interbank interest rates, investors are starting to worry about a rising tide of civil lawsuits from disgruntled customers.UBS shares touched 18 month highs...
Dec 19 2012 // Swiss bank UBS swallowed a $1.5 billion fine and admitted to fraud on Wednesday after a global probe revealed its staff orchestrated the manipulation of benchmark interest rates over three continents.UBS traders colluded...
Nov 12 2012 // Britain’s government needs to limit compensation paid to customers mis-sold loan insurance, John Cridland, director-general of the Confederation of British Industry, wrote in the Times on Monday.The head of...
Oct 17 2012 // Royal Bank of Scotland is set to withdraw this week from an insurance scheme set up by Britain during the banking crisis to cover its riskiest loans, having paid the minimum required in premiums, sources familiar with the...
Sep 25 2012 // British health authorities have alerted the U.N. of a new respiratory virus that resembles SARS in a severely ill patient who recently traveled to Saudi Arabia, where another man died of a similar illness earlier this...
Sep 7 2012 // The North Atlantic hurricane season runs from mid-August to October, with a strong peak in storm activity around the middle of September. A less familiar but even more destructive pattern of disturbances is the financial...
Aug 10 2012 // A.M. Best Europe – Rating Services Limited has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and issuer credit rating of “a-” of UK-based Electrical Contractors’ Insurance...
Jul 20 2012 // UK-based specialist insurer Amlin plc is setting up a U.S. market for casualty reinsurance targeting nationwide business with a focus on general and professional liability. The business will be sourced direct from U.S....
Jul 18 2012 // Somalia’s president has shielded a top pirate leader from arrest by issuing him a diplomatic passport, according to a United Nations investigation which criticizes the “climate of impunity” enjoyed by...
Jul 5 2012 // All of Europe’s biggest economies are in recession or heading there and there is little sign things will improve soon, surveys showed on Wednesday, backing a growing view that the region’s major central banks...
Jun 29 2012 // Britain will expose on Friday a second scandal involving the country’s banks in as many days, as Barclays boss Bob Diamond clings to his job after regulators slapped a record fine on the lender for rigging interest...
Jun 27 2012 // Britain has seen a credible terrorist attack plot about once a year since the Sept.11 attacks – a worrying pattern as security officials brace for an array of threats ahead of next month’s summer Olympics, the...
Jun 20 2012 // A British company said Tuesday it has cancelled insurance for a Russian ship it says was carrying munitions to Syria – a shipment the British government says included refurbished military helicopters.U.K.-based...
Jun 15 2012 // Authorities in the world’s major economies are preparing for a possible market storm or public panic after cliffhanger Greek elections this weekend, officials said on Thursday, should radical leftists win and cast...
Jun 12 2012 // British insurers face big claims for flooding after the heavy rainfalls across the country this month, making it harder for them to hit profit targets and potentially forcing them to raise premium rates for consumers,...
May 30 2012 // European Union countries could be obliged to bail out one another’s struggling banks, according to a draft EU law that marks a big step towards greater EU financial integration likely to upset some members,...
May 21 2012 // Before the 2012 Olympic Games open in London on July 27, the city will already have experienced an unprecedented round of preparations, notably the construction of stadiums, site venues and housing that is in the process...
May 9 2012 // The UK is seeking to persuade fellow European Union members to postpone by up to six months a ban on providing insurance for tankers carrying Iranian oil, arguing that it could lead to a damaging spike in oil prices,...
Apr 25 2012 // Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels told an entertainment industry group pushing for safer outdoor events that the state has learned from last year’s deadly State Fair stage collapse and is moving to approve emergency rules...
Mar 27 2012 // A cloud of explosive natural gas boiling out of the North Sea from a leak at Total’s abandoned Elgin platform forced wider evacuations off the Scottish coast on Tuesday as the French oil company warned it may take...