Madrid is pressed to reveal the details of the government's €19bn Bankia rescue as top ministers meet international and European economic leaders

Investors have high hopes for chairman Leif Johansson, described as ‘tank covered with pillows', as he readies for ‘period of significant change'

Agency lowers ratings on nine banks, including the country's largest lender Danske Bank, as part of a broad review of the European financial sector

Swiss Re's disposal of its American business highlights changing landscape as regulation threatens to make life even tougher for insurers

Biggest shareholder hopes to ease concerns that he has joined forces with management to control the company amid conflict with Oleg Deripaska

The European aerospace group's chairman had ‘other things to attend to' when the new management team took over at the shareholders' meeting

Shareholder in Italian insurer to make bid to force Giovanni Perissinotto, chief executive of Italian insurer, to step down at weekend board meeting

Energy developments off Italy that were closed in response to BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill are expected to receive approval to reopen

Recovery has necessitated thousands of job cuts, cutting subsidies for handset upgrades, a sharply reduced dividend and disposals

The ECB president presses for the regulation of Europe's most important banks to be taken out of the hands of national supervisors

Swiss-based trader says it has signed agreement to acquire assets of 100,000bpd Ingolstadt plant and related German marketing activities

As a misnamed ‘shareholder spring' takes shape, it seems bosses are as confused as everyone else when it comes to devising the best pay structure