BoE MPC voted 9-0 to keep QE policy unchanged

Bank of England policymakers papered over August's split on the appropriate scale of quantitative easing this month, after Governor Mervyn King held back on pressing for a bigger expansion to the scheme.

Cyprus 13th in cost of bank accounts in EU

The fees of many banks in the European Union are often opaque, while there are problems with the way banks inform and advise their customers, according to a European Commission report on

China, ahead of G20, backs policy coordination

China responded on Wednesday to a United States proposal for closer cooperation among Group of 20 countries to tackle global imbalances by saying it supported international economic policy coordination. In a statement