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Rise in French borrowing costs weighs on sentiment. The euro dropped to its lowest rate against the US dollar in 16 months today over fears about the financial health of...

Antitrust investigation into 16 banks. The European Commission today announced that it has opened two antitrust investigations into the credit default swaps (CDS) market,...

Views on the deal.

There are concerns that moves to promote cross-border payments could give more power to the big players in the market. The development of a single euro payments area (SEPA)...

Europe's banks are moving away from state support, but the Commission's work is far from done. Following the lead taken by their US counterparts, European banks have, in the...

There is a disjuncture between the profits reported by American and European banks, and the fragility of the economic recovery. Six months ago, in the wake of the September...

Experts are warning that, despite huge cuts in interest rates on both sides of the Atlantic, Western economies are still highly vulnerable. Eighteen months after the global...

Why, asks Stewart Fleming, did the EU not update its financial plumbing before the introduction of the euro? Anyone who spends their leisure hours leafing idly through the...

“I don't believe the doomsayers nor opinion polls. Look at Obama – three months ago nobody would have bet on him, now look where he is.”Walter Veltroni, mayor of Rome...

The European Commission should impose conditions on any merger between Suez and Gaz de France (GdF) to ensure that some form of competition survives on the Belgian energy...

THE job of Jean Lemierre, the president of the London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), has been getting tougher over the past few months. It...

WHEN French President Jacques Chirac stood up in the German Bundestag and called for a "pioneer group" of EU countries to push ahead with the construction of Europe, you...

FOR many European industries, the euro crept in six months ago and caused a couple of sleepless nights for accounting and information technology staff. In the banking and...

Europe's banks are on a roller-coaster ride as a wave of consolidation engulfs the industry. Even as they were buffeted by the Asian financial crisis, Russia's default and...

THE scurrying sound you can hear across Europe's trading floors is that of EU regulators running to catch up. It is no exaggeration to say that continental Europe's...

THE Commission is probing a German rescue plan for specialist steel forger Wildauer Kurbelwelle GmbH (WKW), a subsidiary of Georgsmarienheutte GmbH. The institution said in a...

THE European Commission has been stung into examining how it can set ground rules for state aid to banks following Crédit Lyonnais' recent dramatic demand for extra...

THE European Commission yesterday (4 October) approved a proposal ensuring the solvency of an insurance company is not undermined if it is part of a larger insurance group....