• Monday paper round-up: Barclays/Lehman, British Airways, Rio Tinto

  Monday 15 Mar 2010

  Further damaging revelations about the collapse of Lehman Brothers are being held up in the US courts by Barclays.

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Lloyds, EMI, Vedanta

  Sunday 14 Mar 2010

  Lloyds Banking is believed to be considering plans to hive off a portion of its giant commercial property portfolio into a separate, tax-efficient company. Senior figures within the bank are thought to have put forward the idea, which would see some of the £50bn to £75bn worth of assets and loans inherited by Lloyds following its merger with HBOS spun off into a real estate investment trust (Reit), says the Independent on Sunday.

• Friday paper round-up: BP, Lehman Brothers, Trafigura

  Friday 12 Mar 2010

  Civil servants are scrambling to put together proposals that will allow Britain’s pension funds to bankroll the building of motorways and power stations through a special state-controlled bank.

• Thursday newspaper round-up: BP, British Airways, Cazenove

  Thursday 11 Mar 2010

  BP is set to enter the deep waters off the coast of Brazil, one of the world’s most exciting areas for oil exploration, with a $6bn deal to buy international oil and gas assets from Devon Energy. A deal could be announced as early as Thursday, according to people familiar with negotiations, says the FT.

• Wednesday paper round-up: EADS, Barclays, Google

  Wednesday 10 Mar 2010

  Lord Mandelson has tried to head off a transatlantic trade war by expressing concern at Washington’s handling of a $35bn Pentagon procurement project that could spark European retaliation.

• Tuesday paper round-up: Tullett Prebon, Vodafone, China

  Tuesday 09 Mar 2010

  Hundreds of City traders are rethinking plans to leave the UK for tax purposes in the wake of last month’s landmark court ruling against a British businessman based in the Seychelles, it emerged yesterday.

• Monday newspaper round-up: Royal Bank of Scotland, China, Prudential

  Monday 08 Mar 2010

  Santander has moved into pole position to take over the 320 branches in England being sold by Royal Bank of Scotland.

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Spending cuts, British Airways, House prices

  Sunday 07 Mar 2010

  Alistair Darling will refuse to bow to calls for more aggressive spending cuts in his budget this month and will stick to fiscal plans set out last year.

• Friday paper round-up: HSBC, Scottish & Southern, ITV

  Friday 05 Mar 2010

  The supertax on bank bonuses will reap more than £2.5bn for the Treasury, giving the UK government an unexpectedly large windfall to spend ahead of the general election, a Financial Times survey of 16 global banks has found.

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Petrofac, BA, M&S...

  Thursday 04 Mar 2010

  The Petrofac oil services group is on the verge of acquiring a string of North Sea fields in a deal that would pave the way for a $1 billion spin-out of its exploration and production division.

• Wednesday paper round-up: Prudential, Food prices, BAE Systems

  Wednesday 03 Mar 2010

  Prudential has lost a fifth of its stock market value in just two days as Britain’s biggest insurer battles to convince UK investors to pay up for its $35.5bn Asian expansion.

• Tuesday paper round-up: Sterling, Prudential, HSBC

  Tuesday 02 Mar 2010

  The pound suffered its biggest one-day fall for more than a year yesterday amid the prospect of a hung Parliament and growing fears that this will prevent swift and decisive action being taken over Britain’s public finances.

• Monday newspaper round-up: Prudential to buy AIG Asia with record rights call

  Monday 01 Mar 2010

  Prudential has won the support of both AIG’s board and the US government to buy the giant US insurer’s crown jewel Asian assets for $35.5bn (£23.5bn), the Telegraph reports.

• Sunday newspaper round-up: M&S, HSBC, Prudential

  Sunday 28 Feb 2010

  Shareholders in Marks & Spencer are preparing for a fresh showdown with the retail giant over the £1.13m pay package of Sir Stuart Rose, the executive chairman.

• Friday newspaper round-up: Royal Bank of Scotland, BBC, Google

  Friday 26 Feb 2010

  Royal Bank of Scotland paid 100 investment bankers more than £1m each – yet has still warned that hundreds will defect this year over pay restrictions, costing the state-backed lender £1bn in profit.

• Thursday newspaper round-up: RBS, HSBC, VT Group

  Thursday 25 Feb 2010

  The Government has cleared Royal Bank of Scotland to pay its 17,200 investment bankers £1.3bn in bonuses despite losses for the year reaching £5bn across the group. The performance awards equate to £75,000 each and will lift total average earnings to £150,000.

• Wednesday paper round-up: HSBC, Google, RAB Capital

  Wednesday 24 Feb 2010

  The European Commission has launched an anti-trust investigation against Google after three online companies alleged that the internet giant’s search functions were penalising their businesses.

• Tuesday paper round-up: British Airways, Lloyds Banking, Toyota

  Tuesday 23 Feb 2010

  British Airways crew have voted to strike and could throw the travel plans of hundreds of thousands of passengers' into chaos as early as next week.

• Monday newspaper round-up: Lloyds Banking, Royal Bank of Scotland, Xstrata

  Monday 22 Feb 2010

  The chief executive of Lloyds Banking Group was under intense pressure yesterday to give up his bonus after the head of rival Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) rejected a £1.6m reward.

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Greece, RBS, Lloyds

  Sunday 21 Feb 2010

  The Business Secretary, Peter Mandelson, has told senior colleagues that he backs plans for a state-run investment bank that would use public funds and private capital to back small business and large-scale UK infrastructure projects, says the Sunday Telegraph.

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