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  The latest scandal relating to the funding of The Labour Party and its members' leadership campaigns puts banks in the difficult position of having to decide whether to make suspicious transaction reports under counter-money laundering law...

Having dominated the financial news until the sub-prime mortgage crisis came along, Barclays' bid for ABN AMRO has simply run out of steam, as the target's shareholders seemingly let lethargy take over.

The United Nations says that economic and political uncertainty is not dampening the appetite for foreign direct investment and that the UN expects to see an uptrend for at least the next three years.

Are the days of mega-deals numbered in the tech sector? e-Bay has signalled that the Skype internet telephone company is under a cloud and that the hyped-up price paid for th...

An increasing number of Palestinians have died after being denied passage through Israeli checkpoints, according to the latest United Nations humanitarian report on the occupied Palestinian territory.

AirAsia-X has announced the world's first mass-market "superhop" long haul flights. How do they do it?

Think back a while. To the days before Windows. Multi-tasking office suites were common. The thing that killed them was the lack of ability to cu...

Microsoft is running out of options to appeal the order against it in Europe. One has to hope it hedged its position when the fine was first orde...

More evidence has emerged that Gordon Brown is the first President of Great Britain. When US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson wanted a chat, it s...

Is Carlyle about to start a bank-buying spree? Despite the renowned difficult conditions, Carlyle has raised a bumper sum for EU purchases.