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A one-year probe into the collapse of Lehman Brothers found ?credible evidence? that top executives, including the former chief Dick Fuld, approved misleading financial statements and used an ?accounting gimmick? to flatter results

Norwegian fertiliser producer says it will not increase its all-cash $4.1bn offer for US Terra, paving the way for US CF Industries? rival $4.7bn cash-and-shares offer to acquire the company

India?s Oil and Natural Gas Corp is in talks with Gazprom and Rosneft over taking equity stakes in oil and gas projects to help cement an energy partnership

An ex-employee of HSBC stole the details of 24,000 clients from a branch in Switzerland, in a hugely embarrassing theft of data for which the bank apologised unreservedly

The UK carrier will be hit by seven days of strikes later this month after talks between the airline and unions to avoid industrial action over cost-cutting measures broke down

Sir Brian Pitman, the former chairman and chief executive of Lloyds TSB and one of the most respected bankers of his generation, has died suddenly at the age of 78

Pressure from US corporate governance activists is forcing companies to dismantle poison pill measures designed to protect them from unwanted takeover attention

Aga Rangemaster narrowly avoided making a loss in 2009 as the recession hit sales of its upmarket cookers

Microsoft?s Xbox 360 console outsold Nintendo?s Wii in the US last month for the first time in more than two years, but the figures are unlikely to mean a reversal of fortunes for the two videogame machines

Google?s $750m acquisition of mobile advertising company AdMob faces a potential challenge by regulators concerned about the search company?s expanding reach

A one-year probe into the collapse of Lehman Brothers found ?credible evidence? that top executives, including the former chief Dick Fuld, approved misleading financial statements and used an ?accounting gimmick? to flatter results

Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy are to try to hammer out a compromise deal over European Union reforms that the US and UK believe could damage the hedge fund and private equity industries

Industrial production in the eurozone grows at its fastest level for over 20 years in January, amid signs of a far more sustained recovery than had been seen previously

Global Markets Overview: Many analysts had suggested that once the S&P breached 1,150, as it did on Friday, that would reinvigorate traders and help push stocks higher

Norwegian fertiliser producer says it will not increase its all-cash $4.1bn offer for US Terra, paving the way for US CF Industries? rival $4.7bn cash-and-shares offer to acquire the company

Two suicide bombers attacked military vehicles in the Pakistani city, killing at least 39 people and wounding almost nearly 100, officials say

The UK carrier will be hit by seven days of strikes later this month after talks between the airline and unions to avoid industrial action over cost-cutting measures broke down

London has lost its crown as the pre-eminent home of banking and finance, as it tied for the first time with New York in the latest ranking of financial centres

Yukio Hatoyama, the Japanese prime minister, told the Japanese parliament that the yen was too strong given the state of the country?s economic recovery

The return of seven-times champion Michael Schumacher has raised fans? hopes for a vintage campaign, but worries persist over the sport?s fragile financial structure

Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy are to try to hammer out a compromise deal over European Union reforms that the US and UK believe could damage the hedge fund and private equity industries

Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters started to converge on Bangkok for a rally that many fear could end in violence

Two suicide bombers attacked military vehicles in the Pakistani city, killing at least 39 people and wounding almost nearly 100, officials say

Yukio Hatoyama, the Japanese prime minister, told the Japanese parliament that the yen was too strong given the state of the country?s economic recovery

Industrial production in the eurozone grows at its fastest level for over 20 years in January, amid signs of a far more sustained recovery than had been seen previously

Wolfgang Schäuble, German finance minister, wants a European monetary fund to be backed by tough sanctions to enforce budgetary discipline, with countries facing expulsion from the eurozone ?as a last resort?

The US was battling to keep alive the prospect of a new round of Middle East peace talks on Thursday, after the Palestinian leadership said it would not join indirect negotiations with Israel

London has lost its crown as the pre-eminent home of banking and finance, as it tied for the first time with New York in the latest ranking of financial centres

A raft of mixed economic signals has raised the pressure for more blunt interventions in the wake of the financial crisis

Riot police fired teargas at stone-throwing demonstrators in central Athens as a peaceful march by workers staging a 24-hour strike ended in disarray

Global Markets Overview: Many analysts had suggested that once the S&P breached 1,150, as it did on Friday, that would reinvigorate traders and help push stocks higher

London shares were modestly higher on Friday as a lively revival of merger and acquisition speculation continued, with the focus on satellite broadcaster BSkyB

Crude oil prices rose amid expectations for an improvement in demand growth this year while sugar prices managed a partial rebound after their pounding earlier this week

The euro hit a three-week high against the dollar on Friday after industrial production in the eurozone recorded its biggest monthly increase on record

What exactly is happening in the bowels of the American mortgage market? asks Gillian Tett

European shares rose on Friday, reversing falls in the previous session, with banks higher after US talks on Barack Obama?s banking reform plans collapsed

The Tokyo exchange rises as exporters gain on speculation that the yen may weaken if the Bank of Japan takes additional steps to ease monetary policy next week

Yukio Hatoyama, the Japanese prime minister, told the Japanese parliament that the yen was too strong given the state of the country?s economic recovery

China?s small companies are looking for opportunities away from AIM on Hong Kong and Singapore exchanges which offer higher volumes of share trading and higher valuations

The miner, has asked some of the world?s top steel producers to pay 80-100 per cent more for their ore supplies in 2010-11

Unable to win elections any more, secularists incite the army and the courts. Their parties are not real parties. They are shrinking cults for outsize egos, write David Gardner

The euro is the second most important reserve and investment currency, largely because financial markets trust the ECB. To maintain this, the crisis must be surmounted rapidly, writes Wolfgang Schäuble

At a time of crisis, the UK has to choose between a government about which it knows far too much and an opposition about which it knows far too little. Neither side is convincing, writes Martin Wolf

The system of urban licenses has left 200m city-dwellers without services, but change is in the air, writes David Pilling

We should all be paying attention to the simultaneous and significant deterioration in the public finances of many advanced economies, writes Mohamed El-Erian

The decisive issue is whether the invasion was really necessary to stop or prevent a sufficiently great evil, writes Nigel Biggar

Luis Garicano sets out a three-point plan to help Spain, which was particularly exposed by the recent financial crisis, avoid becoming the next Greece

The twin imperatives of sound money and European integration are clashing. Ironically, Germany must become less German if the eurozone is to become more so, writes Martin Wolf

We are all subject to confirmation bias, failing to acknowledge our mistakes because we have genuinely persuaded ourselves we did not make them, writes.John Kay

Using military detention or a commission to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed away would anger those who insist on civilian trials, writes Jack Goldsmith

Tens of thousands of UK investment bankers could be caught by a new government proposal that banks should disclose pay details for anyone earning more than £500,000 a year

After defaulting on its debts, a repentant Global Investment House tried an unusual tactic in the Middle East ? total transparency about its restructuring process

Commodity related exchange-traded products have emerged as a key battleground for investment banks keen to win a share of the record levels of financial flows that investors are ploughing into commodity market

EFG-Hermes has been one of the few financial sector stars during the global crisis but the Egypt-based finance house has ambitions that go much further

Junichi Ujiie has warned that if London wants to remain a financial centre that banks must not be over regulated and hit by hefty taxes

A management revamp by the Japanese bank has prompted the resignation of Siggi Thorkelsson, head of equities in Asia, amid signs that other departures could soon follow

The group of financiers has contacted the investment bank to see if it would act as corporate adviser in a further signal of its intentions to wrest control of Manchester United football club

Royal Bank of Scotland has awarded £10m in deferred share bonuses to nine of its most senior executives for their performance last year, with the highest pay-out worth £5.9m going to the head of its investment banking division

Some of Europe's biggest banks defended trading activity of credit default swaps on Greek sovereign debt in a meeting with European Union bureaucrats in Brussels

The alliance will strengthen the Russian-owned investment bank's presence in central and eastern Europe with Citadel Investment Services bringing its local expertise to the table

Barclays Capital is to further bolster its ranks in Asia with the hiring of one of the region's leading investment bankers

Prudential's proposed mega-bid for AIG's coveted pan-Asian insurance assets has added to a feeding frenzy among global investment banks and advisory boutiques for a slice of the action

The brokerage's first dollar-denominated offering ? the biggest by a Japanese financial institution in nearly four years ? comes as it seeks to raise its profile as a global bank

Investment banks win senior bookrunner roles in $20bn Hong Kong listing of AIG's Asian life insurance operations