ECONOMY

Dozens of regulations on running company to either be scrapped or simplified.

Sluggish retail sales underline need for further government help.

Group planning to reduce thousands in headcount across consumer and community banking and mortgage banking sections.

Bank of England policymakers tell Treasury committee they are flexible inflation targeters and exchange rate must fall.

Marissa Mayer says making employees work in an office will increase productivity but it may do the exact opposite.

Extra budget aimed at creating jobs and infrastructure as well as to aid tsunami recovery efforts.

Investment bank plans higher returns for investors by shedding jobs and paring back office space.

Stock markets suffer triple-digit declines and bond yields spike higher as investors fear Italian political crisis may have an impact on fragile eurozone recovery.

Markets plunge as the inconclusive Italian election results raise fresh concerns on eurozone's recovery efforts.

PAC says mishandling of deal to cost taxpayers £50m, mainly on compensating bidders.

Associated British Foods worst food company, according to Oxfam's scorecard of 'Big 10'.

Fears of inconclusive Italian election results have cast doubts over direction of eurozone's recovery efforts.

Centre-left coalition may win lower house but polls indicate possibility of hung parliament with Berlusconi victory in key region of Lombardy.

British Bankers' Association approves handing over running of Libor interest rates to new operator.

Chancellor George Osborne to face MPs after UK loses AAA credit rating at Moody's Investor Services.

Frankfurt Stock Exchange owner denies merger talks after shares test two-year highs on market talk of bid from world's biggest futures exchange.

Bad weather hits borrowing at British banks, according to BBA figures for Janaury.

Survey by Confederation of British Industry shows business and professional firms suffering sharpest drop in profitability since November 2011.

Owner of the Financial Times delivers major restructuring plans to tackle tough trading conditions

8 million Britons have no savings at all, claims new report.

Britain suffered its first ever sovereign ratings downgrade from a major agency on Friday (February 22) when Moody's stripped the country of its coveted top-notch triple-A rating, dealing a major blow to Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne.

Oil & Gas UK expects output to pick up from 2014 on higher investments.

HSBC's preliminary China PMI shows that manufacturing sector expanded at a slower pace in February

When the US and France lost their AAA ratings in 2011, instead of borrowing costs rising, they actually fell. Could that happen in the UK?

Tracing service allows account holders to retrieve long lost assets.

Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda leading candidate next Bank of Japan chief.

Top grade lost after ratings firm says missed debt targets and slower growth make Britain's debt vulnerable to interest rate swings.

Caretaker prime minister had short-term economic reform success but Italy still blighted by growth problems.

‘Talk of future reform wouldn't save Italian bondholders if Mario Draghi fell under a bus’, Evenett tells IBTimes UK.