Swiss bank's settlement with US authorities over a tax evasion conspiracy lasting decades revealed a ‘shamefully inadequate' internal probe

Conglomerate's returns on invested capital, at 10%, were up from 7.8% a year ago but improvement is uneven with some units not pulling their weight

Gas deal is a capex conundrum as impenetrable as Vladimir Putin's smile

Chief executive Ivan Glasenberg takes a swipe at large miners for expanding existing mines and swamping the market with new output

Danish group posts stronger-than-expected first-quarter results as it reaps the reward of big cost cuts and an uptick in global trade

Astana prepares measures to boost the Kazakh economy as Russia's slowdown triggers a ripple of alarm for regional political leaders

Frankfurt-based bank moves swiftly to tackle potential problem after it uncovers evidence of efforts to control euro and the Polish zloty

Magnetar Capital, which owned stake in pharmaceutical company Celesio, says smaller investors should have been offered more in takeover deal

Shareholders vote to back the €5bn capital raising, allowing Italy's third-largest bank by assets to pay back a first tranche in state bailout bonds

Investors should wonder whether they want to sell out just as the weather is improving

If a criminal conviction means little more than a civil offence – you pay a fine and move on – it means nothing

Digital music service races ahead of rivals such as Beats and Deezer to become world's biggest, boasting 40m active users in 56 countries