The promise of oil riches from Kurdistan has remained, in the past 10 years, a promise only

Bond issue is an example of how increasingly bullish investors will lend to once-failed banks in heavily indebted peripheral eurozone countries

Those who felt stock markets were getting toppy last year should take a look at the planned float of Luxembourg-based cable-cum-telecoms group

How the global crisis has affected long-running rivalries in banking

News of talks pushes up the Finnish engineer's shares and raises expectations that the UK group is on the hunt for acquisitions

The largest Chinese private conglomerate has bought 80% of state-owned insurance group, defeating rival offer from Apollo Global Management of the US

As banks prepare for a spate of bond issues in 2014, funding costs will be keenly watched against the backdrop of new EU banking union reforms

Women in Europe remain acutely under-represented on company boards but limiting any quotas to supervisory boards is not enough

Winding-up the Irish scheme – which pays pensions linked to salary – will involve the airline making up the €9.7m deficit calculated at December 30

US consumer finance division plans to raise up to $1.56bn from a flotation as the Spanish bank's private equity partners in business seek an exit