BIS unveils plan to avoid future bank bailouts, chaos and panic should the markets crash.

PwC says Lehman's administrators settled benchmark dispute and has freed $9.1bn for paying back investors

Global stocks touched their highest levels since the collapse of Lehman Brothers this week as investors continue to bet on deeper central bank support in the face of tepid economic data and rising political risks.

Investors bet on deeper central bank support in face of tepid data and rising political risks.

UK regulator slaps UBS with a fine for a fund that exposed nearly 2,000 investors to financial instruments that led to the credit crisis

The transcripts were released after a standard 5-year delay

Nobel Laureate and New York Times columnist slips loudly into insult-based attack as the global economic debate gets increasingly partisan.

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision broadens guidelines on "liquidity coverage ratio" for full Basel-III compliance.

Latest EU bailout for Dexia moves Europe one step closer to a Lehman Brothers-style collapse, says Martin Cole.

Leading candidate for Prime Minister seeks big changes for BoJ that have implications for central banks all over the world.

Intransigence, ineptitude and irresponsibility have defined the current political stewardship of the global and economy.

Nicholas Levene (Beano to his friends, of which I am one) is a crook, a wrong 'en, a "more front then Brighton" conman, who has just been found guilty of £32 million fraud and sentenced to 13 years in prison.

China's ageing population, huge credit bubbles and rising inequality is creating a serious "middle income trap" that could hurt the next phase of its "economic miracle".

Germany records slides for manufacturing and services in October as demand sagged amid eurozone crisis.

Vikram Pandit steps down after five years at the head of Citigroup after third-biggest US bank posts solid earnings

Eric Bommensath to lead markets business after trading and distribution teams merger, corporate head reveals in staff memo.

Having been battered by dreary macroeconomic environment, Christmas trading period more important than ever for British retailers

BNP Paribas's decision to freeze US subprime investment funds lit credit crisis touchpaper in the summer of 2007

As Barclays’ deputy chairman Sir Michael Rake turns down the role of taking over from Chairman Marcus Agius, the race to fill the senior positions including ex-CEO Bob Diamond’s role at the embattled bank continues.

BoE's most senior officials testify before Treasury select committee about level of management in Barclays' Libor fixing scandal.

Ex-Barclays COO Jerry Del Missier tells the Treasury Select Committee that instructions he took to lower Libor rates was not significant during the time of October 2008 and emphasises the Bank of England’s role in the scandal.

BoE needs "poacher turned gamekeeper" if it's to keep pace with pace and complexity of modern finance

Peter Praet repeats call for deeper European integration at Lisbon conference.

Barclays is seeking an additional cash and asset boost from defunct firm Lehman Brothers, despite winning over $5bn from an American ruling in June.

Serious Fraud Office to probe "Libor matter"; US jobs numbers disappoint, IMF warns on global growth

Banks across the world have failed to reform, and they need to stop thinking about the bottom line too: The Head of the International Monetary Fund pulled no punches about the events since the collapse of Lehman Brothers back in 2008.

Bank of England adds £50bn additional firepower to asset purchase programme

Candidates include current and former Barclays executives as search campaign begins

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry says the $2bn loss will not create a solvency issue for JP Morgan at the bank's CEO Jamie Dimon second testimony.

As the Greek elections loom this weekend, IBTimes UK takes a look at how the event will shape up, will Greece leave the Euro and of course the battle for the public to vote for a pro-bailout party.