Merck tests ground for Iran partnership
Dozens of European businesses have visited the country in in anticipation of a thaw in relations over the country’s nuclear programme European Companies News…
Insurers pose risk for next big crisis
As banks have found various forms of business rendered punitively expensive by new capital regulations, insurance companies are moving in European Companies News…
Banks to step up Fed capital rule fight
European and Asian lenders to use delays to Federal Reserve implementing more stringent capital proposals to lobby for plans to be reconsidered European Companies News…
European companies: signs of life
Restructuring was the name of the game on the stock market in 2013 with Alcatel-Lucent and Thomas Cook scoring highly European Companies News…
Wind of change for VimpelCom’s unit
The future of VimpelCom’s Italian mobile phone business is in the melting pot with a sale, merger or debt refinancing being considered European Companies News…
EasyJet blazes trail on customer service
Low-cost airline aims to seize more market share by retraining staff and putting passenger satisfaction at the heart of its business European Companies News…
Rusal takes LME to court on warehousing
The Russian aluminium producer claims a crackdown on the metals warehousing industry by the London Metal Exchange is a breach of its ‘human rights’ European Companies News…
EU-US trade tussle brews in beer industry
Europe’s craft brewers want EU officials to tackle what they say amounts to tax discrimination in the US as part of a new transatlantic trade deal European Companies News…
Five threats for bankers to ponder
Undermining the outlook is the problem of how central banks can unwind their unprecedented economic stimuli without causing another round of chaos European Companies News…
Russia takes EU to WTO over energy policy
Moscow claims Russian companies trying to tap the European market have been unfairly penalised because of the country’s low domestic energy prices European Companies News…
