Swedbank: safe as houses?
Bank regulators in Sweden want their banks to hold even more capital these days, especially for residential mortgages, consistently testing the foundations of investors’ attraction to the Swedish bank European…
EU reaches deal on banking union
The agreement, reached after marathon talks, sees a common system for the wind-down of a cross-border bank European Companies News…
Penguin buys Spanish-language publisher
Deal for trade and consumer publishing arm of Santillana expands merged publisher’s presence in Spain, Portugal, the US and Latin America European Companies News…
Finmeccanica returns to profit with €74m
Chief said the Italian aerospace conglomerate group had restored its credibility with investors through corporate restructuring and asset disposals European Companies News…
Crimea fallout hits Moscow markets
There are parallels with the western banks that expanded in the run-up to the 2007-08 crisis on the basis of fickle financing European Companies News…
Porsche to make whole car outside Germany
The carmaker says that after 2016 the next generation of the Cayenne SUV will now be manufactured completely in Bratislava, Slovakia European Companies News…
Peugeot nominates Gallois as chairman
Former head of defence group Airbus beats former Nexans boss Gerard Hauser, the initial preference of the Peugeot family, to the senior post European Companies News…
Crude oil rebounds from six-week low
Brent recovers losses, helped by continuing tensions in Ukraine, where news of a shooting at a military base in the Crimean capital underscored the potential for an escalation of the…
Scania rejects €6.7bn bid from Volkswagen
Decision by Swedish truckmaker’s committee threatens efforts by German group to consolidate brands and generate millions of euros of synergies European Companies News…
Ono’s owners ring up a profit
The Vodafone acquisition of Ono allows Providence Equity to salvage an investment that was worth almost nothing just a few years ago European Companies News…
