By Douwe Miedema WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Big banks are set to gain key concessions as the top U.S. derivatives regulator meets to vote on watered-down rules for swap trading that will chip away at Wall Street's dominance of the $630 trillion mark... [Full Article]
AYLESBURY, England (AP) - Japan convinced its partners in the Group of Seven leading industrial economies Saturday that it was not manipulating its currency as part of a bold attempt to get its economy out of a near two-decade period of stagnation. (... [Full Article]
By Matt Scuffham LONDON (Reuters) - The Co-operative Bank ruled out government support on Friday, after a warning from ratings agency Moody's that it might need taxpayers' money to plug a capital shortfall prompted its chief executive to re... [Full Article]
By Mari Saito and Sinead Carew TOKYO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - SoftBank Corp President Masayoshi Son came out swinging on Tuesday against Dish Network Corp's rival bid for Sprint Nextel Corp, saying the satellite TV company would cripple Sprint with ... [Full Article]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday dismissed complaints filed by Google , Yahoo! and other Internet companies that sought to reduce the fees the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market charge for market data, saying the Dodd... [Full Article]
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Britain intends to implement a tougher version of European Union rules on capital adequacy for its own insurers, even at the risk of a legal challenge in the bloc's courts, a top regulator has said. Andrew Bailey,... [Full Article]
By Michael Szabo LONDON, April 15 (Reuters Point Carbon) - Barclays plc broke internal rules by transferring advisory staff with confidential information to its acquisitions team to help buy a Swedish carbon credit firm, a lawyer for a former client ... [Full Article]
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced sweeping changes in financial regulation on Tuesday, telling banks they can no longer blame customers when products go wrong and promising to study how consumers behave t... [Full Article]
By Pedro Nicolaci da Costa WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bank regulators need to develop much simpler rules to make it harder for large financial firms to game the supervisory system, Bank of England official Andrew Haldane said on Tuesday. "We need to... [Full Article]
By Belinda Goldsmith LONDON (Reuters) - Actress Judi Dench may be battling deteriorating eyesight and a failing memory but the veteran performer showed no sign of faltering when she teamed up with fellow James Bond star Ben Whishaw on a London stage ... [Full Article]