The ambitious Portuguese boss of the Abbey believes he will turn the former building society into a fully fledged commercial bank by 2012, and has no qualms about taking on the UK’s biggest banks to achieve his aim. Abbey’s chief executive António Horta-Osório is planning to launch an all-out attack ...

Daily Telegraph - Analysts are bracing themselves for another week of sub-prime related horrors as three of Wall Street's biggest banks - Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley - report first quarter results. Lehman Brothers is expected to reveal write ...