Data this morning (26th February 2010) has revealed that the UK economy grew by 0.3% in the fourth quarter of 2009, an upward revision of 0.2%... 

Gerald Corrigan, chairman of Goldman Sachs Bank USA, has defended his bank's 2001 debt-swap deal with Greece that may have allowed the country to mask the extent of the country's ongoing crisis... 

Already reeling after worse-than-expected public finances data on Thursday, the UK economy has received another knock this morning following particularly weak retail sales figures... 

Sean FitzPatrick, who stepped down in December 2008 from his job as chairman of the Anglo Irish Bank, is being questioned by Irish police about alleged financial irregularities... 

Lloyds Banking Group, which received tax-payers money during the height of the banking crisis, says it now expects to make a profit this year - having posted heavy losses due to bad loans in 2009 which resulted in an operating loss of £6.3bn... 

Senator Dodd is moving ahead with the bill despite Republicans on the committee withdrawing their support following the Republicans victory in the Massachusetts Senate election in January... 

WestLB AG went into production recently with Quartet's ActivePivot software to generate and maintain, in real-time, various position screens across the money market and foreign exchange product...

Atos Worldline, which brings together Atos Origin expertise in high-tech transactional services, and ING Belgium are extending their collaboration in the payment...

WestLB has gone live with Eurobase's market leading price distribution solution, Siena Gateway. The product replaces an existing vendor system at the Bank... 

Hector Sants, Chief Executive of the Financial Services Authority, has unveiled plans to toughen up protection for consumers over financial products... 

RBC Capital Markets today (1st March 2010) announced that it has hired Raymond Schumertl, as a Director, Global Macro FX Sales... 

Kate Barker - the first external MPC member to have been appointed for three terms - will step down from the Monetary Policy Committee when... 

RBC Capital Markets, the corporate and investment banking arm of Royal Bank of Canada (RY on TSX and NYSE)... 

US billionaire George Soros has more than doubled his investment in gold, despite calling it the "ultimate bubble" just weeks previously... 

Data this morning has revealed that the UK's dominant service sector continued to expand for the ninth consecutive month in January...