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The Bank of England today launched its new One Bank Research Agenda – an ambitious and wide-ranging framework to transform the way research is done at the Bank. The One Bank Research Agenda aims to improve the coordination and openness of…

Yesterday the FTSE 100 recorded its highest closing price ever, finishing at 6,949.63, higher than its previous best of 6,930.2, recorded on December 30, 1999, when the dot come boom was at its height. In the same day, the FTSE also broke…

Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, has announced that it has agreed heads of terms with the Trustee of the Balfour Beatty Pension Fund to re-profile the £85 million (€116 million) pension deficit payment, agreed at the…

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Aviva Investors Global Services Limited (Aviva Investors) £17,607,000 (€24 million) for systems and controls failings that meant it failed to manage conflicts of interest fairly. These…

Non-Executive Directors (NEDs) with specific responsibilities, such as Chairman, will come under the new Senior Managers Regime (SMR), the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) have confirmed.…

HSBC’s Group Chief Executive Stuart Gulliver blamed a ‘challenging year’ for the banking group’s 17% drop in profit before tax (PBT), as the financial giant posted its full year 2014 results today. The results follow allegations earlier…

For the second year running, Argentina has been ranked as the most complex country for multinational enterprises to do business in, according to TMF Group’s Global Benchmark Complexity Index. The far-reaching annual study by TMF Group has…

Legal & General Group has announced its intention to acquire 100% of New Life Home Finance Limited for a consideration of £5 million (€6.7 million). Newlife is a privately owned UK-based provider of lifetime mortgage products. The…