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

JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (Reuters) - Increasing political encroachment on the Federal Reserve, particularly from the Republican Party, could threaten the central bank's hard-won independence and undermine confidence in the nearly 100-year old institution.

PARIS (Reuters) - Societe Generale said it was replacing the head of its international retail operations, which have seen mixed results in markets such as Russia and Greece.

STUTTGART (Reuters) - U.S. business software maker Oracle has launched an appeal on a five-year long court case that could see SAP pay millions more in damages over copyright infringement.

LONDON (Reuters) - Prominent dealmaker William Vereker is stepping down as joint head of investment banking at Nomura , and has been given a new title, a move colleagues said would lead to his imminent departure.