Banking is a brilliant business to be in, because it’s fairly easy to make serious profits.
Indeed, for hundreds of years, banks have been a cornerstone of British commerce. At the beginning of the twentieth century, when Queen Victoria was still on the throne, stock market-listed banks accounted for about a sixth of the value of [...]

Let me guess how you got your first credit card: you applied for one from the bank which held your current account, right? By sheer luck, you may have found your ideal plastic, but, with 1,300 different credit cards to choose from, the odds were firmly stacked against you.
If you’re going to be a cunning [...]