Business and Finance

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is planning new rules to bring down the cost of many overdraft fees, which raked in over £2.4bn for banks last year alone.

The UK's big four auditors are facing the prospect of having their work checked by smaller rivals in the wake of a string of accounting scandals.

US stock markets have fallen sharply in a renewed sell-off as global share prices looked set for a grim end to the year.

A new statutory code of practice on sexual harassment in the workplace is to be drawn up.

Manufacturers will pick up the burden of paying for recycling under new government plans which hope to cut down on waste going to landfill.

The former chief executive officer of CBS will not receive a multi-million dollar severance package after failing to cooperate with an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations.

More than half of online shoppers have had a problem with delivery in the run-up to Christmas, new research has shown.

A catalogue of pressures for retailers mean shoppers are benefiting from record levels of pre-Christmas discounting, according to a report.

A gas and electricity supplier to nearly 250,000 homes is seeking a rescue fundraising to avoid becoming the tenth company to collapse amid the crisis which has engulfed the sector this year.

Retail shares are taking a pounding after ASOS issued a profit warning on the back of a "significant deterioration" in sales growth.