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Tour of St Paul's dome skips the stairs

13.07.10
Visitors to St Paul's are set to be whisked up into the cathedral's dome and taken thousands of years back in history without leaving the ground... more

Police face court over alleged expenses fraud in 7/7 case

22.01.10
Three Scotland Yard counter terrorism officers have been charged with fraud after allegedly making 'inflated' expense claims while investigating the 7/7 London bombers... more

Prince Charles borrows cash from protection police to pay for flights

09.12.09
Prince Charles may be one of the wealthiest men in Britain but that doesn’t stop him asking his staff to lend him some cash... more

Harriet Harman disturbs the Pease

21.10.09
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Credit firms charge British tourists £50 to take out €1,000

10.09.09
British holidaymakers were charged a total of £106million for taking out money with their credit card abroad last month... more

Key ingredients for a dream holiday

05.08.09
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Pensions blackhole deepens to record £96bn

05.08.09
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Footsie keeps up momentum as the bulls make their mark

20.07.09
The bulls are back in town. After the stock market enjoyed its best week this year last week, with the FTSE 100 gaining 6.3%, shares in London were on the rise again today ... more

Reasons to be cheerful about business in Silicon London

20.07.09
It is a pleasant surprise to meet anyone who is optimistic at the moment. So I have liked spending time with people involved in London technology start-ups in the past week ... more

Fraud police freeze $100 million of Stanford's assets in London

30.06.09
Assets worth $100 million (£60.2 million) have been frozen in London as part of the $7 billion fraud case against Allen Stanford, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) revealed... more

300 Met officers investigated over Amex claims

15.06.09
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US banks vie to pay back bailout funds

09.06.09
A two-tier banking system of winners and losers looked set to emerge in the US today ... more

Banks pay back $68bn in major US shake-up

09.06.09
The American banking industry will undergo a radical shake-up tonight, as the government made it clear which institutions it regards as strong and which as fundamentally weak ... more

Yard detectives held in Amex card inquiry

13.05.09
Three more Scotland Yard detectives have been arrested as part of an inquiry into allegations officers misused corporate credit cards while investigating the 7/7 bombings... more

Anti-terror chief in clear over credit card row

11.05.09
Scotland Yard’s anti-terror chief is expected to be cleared of wrong-doing after an investigation into claims he misused a corporate American Express credit card... more

Buffett’s in for a buffeting

09.04.09
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Hakkasan swindler to pay back just £200

05.03.09
A barman at a Michelin-starred Chinese restaurant who fleeced diners of thousands of pounds in a credit card fraud has been ordered to pay back £200... more

Cost-cuts save day but Amex still dives

27.01.09
Banking: American Express fourth-quarter earnings crashed 72%, only beating analysts’ forecasts because of aggressive cost-cutting... more

Best hot takeway food in London

21.01.09
As winter bites, you don't want to waste too much of your lunch hour tracking down a warming meal.... more

India's Satyam 'may be put up for sale'

19.01.09
Technology: The new board of Satyam Computer Services, shaken by an accounting fraud going back years, is looking to sell the company, reports in Mumbai suggest... more

Credit cards charging up to 46 per cent interest

09.01.09
American Express has increased the cost of borrowing on one of its credit cards to 46 per cent - more than 30 times the Bank of England base rate... more

US grants bank status to Amex

11.11.08
The US government has approved the transition of American Express to become a bank... more

Software boss in jail after his ‘admission’

13.10.08
Luton-born software entrepreneur Paul Johnston is in a US jail accused of stealing tens of millions of dollars from venture capitalists... more

Hakkasan barman in £30,000 card skim fraud

03.10.08
A barman at a michelin-starred Chinese restaurant who ripped off up to a thousand diners in a credit card scam to pay for his mother's funeral was jailed for 15 months... more

The Godfather, a man they call the Gorilla and how a banking legend was lost

16.09.08
As thousands of City workers today come to terms with the loss of their jobs, we chart the rise and fall of Lehmans — and the extraordinary gambles that brought it down... more

Flight Centre soars to £101m

21.07.08
Discount travel agency Flight Centre has unveiled a 40% profit rise to £101.1 million and said the UK will drive an earnings increase in the coming months... more

Terminal 5 braces itself for the great summer getaway

21.07.08
Last April we sent a reporter to Heathrow to investigate the disastrous opening of its new terminus. Here he returns to find out if it will cope with this weekend's exodus... more

Warren's shares take Buffetting

02.07.08
Shares in Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway have fallen almost 20% so far this year. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 15% in the same period... more

If things were going wrong at Lehman, its 'digital mind' would know

20.03.08
On Monday, Richard Fuld was staring into the abyss as rumours swirled around the bank he built. So where did he find the strength to face down the sceptics?... more

St Paul's opened up to help preserve masterpiece

07.11.07
A £40 million regeneration project will give visitors unprecedented access to parts of St Paul's Cathedral.... more

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