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Citigroup said Rohan Ramchandani, its former head of European spot trading who was already on leave, had left the bank, a departure that comes amid a global probe into the fixing of foreign exchange ...

Unilever, the consumer goods group, reported a bigger than expected drop in first-half sales after a continued slowdown in emerging markets, where weakening currencies wiped €413m off operating ...

But it is a lot easier to gatecrash tie-ups between the security-conscious companies that run these server warehouses, as the US group Equinix looks set to prove. It has offered £2.3bn in cash and ...

Christophe Salmon, a former BNP Paribas financier, will take over from Pierre Lorinet in September, the company has said in a statement. "I have decided it is time to take a career break and devote ...

Taobao is no longer merely for buying socks and rice cookers. China Cinda Asset Management, the state-owned bad-loan bank, this week auctioned off two unpaid debts on a new auction platform ...

The chief executive of Siemens met with Vladimir Putin and made a long-term commitment to Russia, despite the attempts by the EU and the US to isolate Moscow after the takeover of Crimea. Siemens is ...

Shares in Game Digital plunged by more than 40 per cent on Wednesday morning as markets reacted to a profit warning issued on Tuesday night by the high street video games retailer following heavy ...

For the second time this century, Vodafone has shaken up investment banks' highly coveted advisory league tables. An advisory role in the UK group's $130bn deal this month to sell its joint venture ...

Ferrari will ramp up investment in new technology by half to €2bn through 2017 as the Italian marque seeks to build the world's most fuel-efficient high-performance engines. "Ferrari will build the ...

Tesla Motors, the US electric car manufacturer, announced plans to sell at least $1.6bn in convertible senior notes to raise funds for a vast new battery factory as its shares hit a record high on ...

Modest English devolution could add £144bn to the UK economy by 2020 by handing greater spending control to the regions, according to a survey of local business and political leaders. Localis, a think ...