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The European Commission will on Wednesday tell five euro zone countries, including France and Italy, that their budget plans risk breaching EU rules, say three officials briefed on the decision...
Europe's banks will find out whether they have passed their health checks this Sunday when the European Banking Authority (EBA) and the European Central Bank (ECB) announce the results of two separate tests on the financial industry's ability to withstand economic shocks...
Google Ventures has landed. As trailed in July, the investment arm of the world’s second favorite technology firm has manifested in London. Yesterday, Google Ventures set out its strategy for investing $100m in Europe and disclosed who it’s hired to lead the new unit...
After suffering through more than a year of difficult market conditions, fixed income traders were finally having a good couple of months...
Brazil’s too-close-to-call election is pushing volatility on the country’s stocks (IBOV) to the highest in nine years relative to emerging-market peers. With polls showing support for President Dilma Rousseff and challenger Aecio Neves within the margin of error, price swings are surging...
It’s become a cliché to say that finance jobs pay well, but not as well as they used to. Seven years ago, 25 year-olds in finance were gratefully receiving £1m bonuses and 33 year-old heads of divisions were on £4m...
If you’re on the look out for new career opportunities in London’s financial services sector, it’s important to know of as yet unheralded companies. Senior bankers at big-name firms are often going it alone...
Mario Draghi, the European Central Bank president, indicated in September that the latest measures to boost faltering eurozone inflation and get the economy moving again could increase the ECB’s balance sheet up by to €1 trillion...
The California Earthquake Authority, the largest seismic insurer in the U.S., is selling $350 million in bonds to strengthen its ability to pay claims, after the state’s first death due to a quake in 11 years. The debt, which is federally taxable, is the first offering by the authority since 2006...