Pfizer agreed on Thursday to acquire Hospira, a provider of injectable drugs and biosimilars, for about $17bn in it's first big deal since it failed to buy AstraZeneca last year. The New York-based ...
The Irish central bank is under pressure to ease restrictions it plans to place on mortgage lending amid a chorus of criticism that the new rules risk pushing first-time buyers out of the housing ...
One of UBS's most seasoned dealmakers is set to leave following a shake-up of the Swiss lender's investment banking unit last year. Simon Warshaw, a UBS stalwart who used to co-run the global ...
US intelligence agencies have successfully pressured EU governments to weaken laws protecting their communications systems, allowing American spies to tap into vast troves of data on EU citizens with ...
China Communications Construction Company is buying John Holland, one of Australia's biggest builders, in a deal that gives the state-owned enterprise a foothold in a country spending tens of billions ...
The regulatory oversight of the mutual was also called into question. The Financial Services Authority, the former regulator that was disbanded this year, approved Rev Flowers's appointment as a ...
Six Danish institutions, including ATP, one of Europe's largest pension schemes, are to quit the private organisation behind the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). They said the ...
Goldman Sachs was fined €37m on Wednesday as part of an EU cartel inquiry into subsea power cables that highlights the legal risks faced by buyout groups.
UBS has struck two deals to outsource most of its fixed income trading platform in a radical step highlighting the scale of cost pressures in the investment banking sector.
Some 64,000 engineers have sued Google, Apple, Intel and Adobe Systems for forming a different type of alliance - to stop the companies poaching each other's staff. The companies themselves (plus ...
South Korea's exchange operator, Korea Exchange (KRX), is rushing to implement a "kill switch" system designed to minimise the fallout from trading algorithms going wrong after a local broker was ...
One day you are hot, the next day you are not - and so it is with Genghis bonds which have suffered a sharp market correction in the wake of June's market rout. Back in November, eyebrows were raised ...