Publisher Bloomsbury is to set up a new business in India to take advantage of rapidly growing demand from the country's English-speaking middle class
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Fidessa, supplier of trading software to broking firms and investment banks, has warned that it expects a slowdown in revenue growth this years as its customers struggle to do business
Scandal-hit Japanese camera and medical equipment maker Olympus has said it expects to have lost 32 billion yen (£260 million) in the year which ends next month
Comment: On the face of it Barclays missed City profit forecasts by some £200 million and also admitted it is unlikely to hit its target of 13% return on equity in 2013
Barclays could miss its ambitious, medium-term profitability target, chief executive Bob Diamond has admitted, as the bank reported a 3% fall in annual profits to £5.9 billion
Bankers at Credit Suisse are set to take the biggest cut in bonuses so far in the 2011 bank reporting season
Hargreaves Lansdown saw a 28% leap in profits in the final six months of 2011 to £72 million, driven partly by its efforts to pick up more of the private client stockbroking market
SVG, the quoted proxy for the mighty Permira private-equity funds, has seen its shares leap more than 8% after it said its first £50 million tender to buy back some of its shares is set to be priced at around 315p
I'm not a politician. Politician is not a job I want," declared Stephen Hester, chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, this week. Well if he is not, he is one of the most astute political animals around (to use a metaphor he happily employs) or I'm not a hack reporter
Stephen Hester, the chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, has defended bankers' pay and said his priority was to return the £45 billion which the taxpayer spent bailing out the bank
Hundreds more banking jobs could be at risk after National Australia Bank (NAB) said it was taking a much more pessimistic view of the UK economy
The chief executive of London-listed Arab investment bank EFG-Hermes has been prevented from leaving Egypt after he tried to fly to Dubai amid allegations that he could have helped incite the football riot which killed 74 people last week
The Financial Services Authority will switch to "twin peaks" regulation in April, with one part overseeing prudential matters and the other consumer affairs
Stockbroker and fund manager Walker Crips has issued a profits warning as it said share trading levels had been particularly weak in the final quarter of 2011
Sir Philip Hampton, chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland, has denied that he and the rest of his board had threatened to resign en masse over chief executive Stephen Hester's £963,000 bonus
Glencore, the world's largest commodities trader, is set to merge with miner Xstrata in a deal that is worth just over £50 billion
This time last year Lloyds Banking Group had half a dozen executive directors and Eric Daniels was on his way out
The last of the old guard who worked for former chief executive Eric Daniels at Lloyds Banking Group is quitting this month
In one of the toughest periods for quoted smaller companies, two new forces in small and mid-cap broking came into being
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