Italian maker of the eponymous red aperitif gets a taste for rum with $415 deal, extending a run of about 20 acquisitions since 1995

German insurance group says the environment for initial public offerings has improved after a number of companies cancelled listing plans this year

Rivals buy stakes in Rhön-Klinikum to block takeover of the German chain with 53 hospitals and 39 healthcare centres

Campari's move for Jamaican group Lascelles demonstrates how multinationals are developing a growing taste for niche products despite rising prices

Franklin Templeton snapped up Irish bonds with a face value of at least €6.1bn by the end of June. Rival money managers are more circumspect

State bank rescue fund decides to give nationalised lender €4.5bn to raise core capital levels after heavy losses following bad property loans

Interest rates paid by companies in the eurozone's weaker economies have surged, highlighting the bloc's fragmentation

Legislation seen by the FT aimed at what EU officials believe is a severe gender imbalance across the bloc's 27 member states

Tech group is now worth $624bn, or more than all the listed companies in Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain together

Far from a bumper year for paying bank bonuses, 2012 is gearing up to be a bumper year for clawing them back, prompted by a spate of recent scandals