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Wednesday Newspaper round up.

The chief executive of HSBC and a string of top bankers will lose a slice of their bonuses and will have future payouts deferred after Britain’s biggest bank was hit with a record fine...

Tuesday Newspaper round up.

Mario Monti is in talks with centrist groups urging him to stand in Italy’s elections early next year it emerged on Monday as pressure mounted on the technocrat prime minister from the financial markets,...

Monday Newspaper round up

A whistleblower at the heart of a bribery investigation at Rolls-Royce has been fighting for more than six years for his claims to be heard. The British engineering group has been accused of handing...

The Smallcap Oil & Gas round up.

Antrim Energy LON:AEY & Premier Oil (LON:PMO) its partner, have plugged and abandoned the Cyclone well in the UK North Sea after failing to find commercial oil. The well in UK block 21/7 reached...

Friday Newspaper round up.

Starbucks has taken the ‘unprecedented’ step of pledging to pay 20m pounds corporation tax, even if it makes no profit – only for the move to appear to backfire and fuel the fiasco surrounding...

Thursday Newspaper round up.

Deutsche Bank failed to recognise up to 12bn dollars of paper losses during the financial crisis, helping the bank avoid a government bail-out, three former bank employees have alleged in complaints to US regulators....

Wednesday Newspaper round up.

George Osborne will announce he is to raise taxes on banks for the fifth time today as he sets out the need for deeper and longer-lasting spending cuts in a bleak mini-budget. In an...