Law firm Eversheds has criticised the proposal by business secretary Vince Cable to introduce a new corporate law to punish directors of failed companies.
The Co-operative Bank reassured pensioners that their investments were safe a month before announcing plans to slash their savings as part of a last-ditch bail-out.
Negligent directors could be held personally liable for failed companies' debts under a shake-up of corporate law to be unveiled by Vince Cable today.
Business secretary Vince Cable has pushed Scottish prosecutors to speed up action against Fred Goodwin and other former directors of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).
Business secretary Vince Cale is pushing forward on plans to ban three former HBOS directors from acting as company directors.
Business secretary Vince Cable has said investors' expectations on possible return from bank stocks are "hopelessly unrealistic".
The UK's accounting rules are distorting bank profits and leading to confusion over executive pay, some of the country's largest investors have have warned.
The country's rich face a further coalition tax raid 'in the next few weeks', according to business secretary Vince Cable.
The UK economy is in "a very deep crisis" and it is difficult to predict when it will recover, according to Business secretary Vince Cable.
Vince Cable has launched another broadside against banks, branding them as ‘anti-business' and slamming them for their "greed and stupidity".