McGuinness, deputy first minister of Northern Ireland, paves way for historic handshake between a Sinn Féin representative and the monarch

Microsoft unveils its new tablet and others fix broken models

Finance minister says EFSF loan is his preferred option for assistance as time runs out for Cyprus's second-biggest lender to meet capitalisation rules

IMF chief says leaders need to tackle crisis with resumption of bond buying by the ECB and the pumping of bailout money directly into teetering banks

Announcement is the culmination of a four-month review, and an even longer period of contemplation of what it means to be a large trading-oriented bank

Fifteen of the world's biggest lenders were downgraded by Moody's, adding to pressure on their borrowing costs and questions over their business model

Goldman Sachs, Templeton and BlackRock plan to invest minimum of $100m in Russian companies that make at least $500m in annual revenues

Data collected for this year's Financial Times/StarMine Analyst Awards show increase in recommendations generating positive returns

Almost €800bn was wasted last year as a result of inefficient cash management, a study suggests

Italy's third-largest bank by assets to hold board meeting to discuss strategy for plugging shortfall and later make the plan public

UK sector will be damaged if the government presses ahead with a carbon floor price even if other countries do not, trade body has warned

In the runup to a bailout, foreign-owned lenders are excluded from the test, as their stronger capitalisation risks skewing the aggregate figures