George Osborne

Osborne capitalises on Portugal bail-out

News Fri 8 Apr 2011, AT 10:43

Business digest: Chancellor says bail-out is evidence that risk to UK is ‘very real’

Portugal Jose Socrates

Portugal asks for bail-out estimated at €80bn

News Thu 7 Apr 2011, AT 11:19

Business digest: Third EU bail-out looms as prime minister Jose Socrates asks for economic rescue

Lloyds and RBS

Banks escaped £3.9bn in fees after bailouts

News Tue 21 Dec 2010, AT 10:31

Business Digest: Lloyds and RBS let off lightly after entering into Asset Protection Scheme

European Central Bank ECB

Euro could collapse, says government watchdog

News Tue 7 Dec 2010, AT 11:07

Business digest: Comments come as EU members disagree over extending bail-out funds

Ireland bank crisis

Ireland got a good bail-out deal

News Mon 29 Nov 2010, AT 14:15

Business digest: Ajai Chopra says Irish would not have got such good terms elsewhere

Wall Street

IMF plans radical bank tax to fund future bailouts

News Wed 21 Apr 2010, AT 08:29

New levies could cost sector $2 trillion. But will they result in more risk-taking?

David Tepper

$2.5bn pay for the man with the brass balls

News Tue 22 Dec 2009, AT 07:09

Hedge-funder David Tepper makes a fortune by taking US government at its word

Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Aminu Sanusi

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi starts a ‘bonfire of the bankers’ in Nigeria

News Thu 3 Sep 2009, AT 13:56

How the 'Ben Bernanke of Nigeria' put his country's financial elite in the dock

US banks need $75bn in equity to survive

News Fri 8 May 2009, AT 09:19

Stress tests show that 10 of the nation’s biggest banks failed the regulators’ stress tests and need another $74.6bn in equity

Barclays Bank

Barclays bank celebrates sharp rise in profits

News Thu 7 May 2009, AT 10:30

The high street giant reassures the market by announcing a 15 per cent jump in profits in the first quarter of 2009

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