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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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