Industrial collaboration between 18 family-owned UK transport companies to expand by taking French, German, Dutch and Italian partners

Denis O'Brien's long-term associate who was ousted as director of the Irish newspaper group just over a year ago is appointed chairman

Private bank falls victim for the third time in the past decade, in the latest twist in the long-running German-Swiss tussle over bank secrecy

SNB rules out forcing banks to build up capital buffers until at least 2013, as it expects the country's red hot property market to cool

Fundraising will revive marble quarrying in a region blighted by conflict, with the company estimating it has 300m cubic metres of stone in reserve

France's third-largest bank says it is keen to offload its Emporiki subsidiary within weeks as it reports big slide in quarterly net profits

Norwegian state-controlled oil group is seeking to produce more oil domestically in 2020 than it does at present after flurry of finds

The low-cost carrier is seeking approval for its proposed takeover of the Irish flag carrier by asking six airlines to operate alternative services

Landesbank Baden-Württemberg and BayernLB cut back significantly on lending in US and western Europe to focus risk in domestic market

It is time, after a costly foreign foray in Greece and eastern Europe, for the French bank to return to its agricultural roots as a domestic lender