One of London's oldest and best-known insurance brokers, Willis, is fined £6.9 million by the Financial Services Authority for failings in systems to prevent bribery and corruption... more
Comment: Those of us who so admired the way Eliot Spitzer duffed up Wall Street hoped he might one day become president. Well, here he is again... more
Comment: Jacob H Zamansky — Jake to his friends and Jaws to opponents — has the scent of fresh prey in his nostrils, and Goldman Sachs is in line for a serious chewing-over... more
Is it all over for Liechtenstein? Hit by the sale of stolen bank account details to foreign investigative authorities, the tiny tax haven has revealed the fall-put from this major breach in its traditional wall of secrecy... more
Scandal: Aon, the London offshoot of the world’s biggest insurance company, has been fined £5.2 million for failures in preventing bribery and corruption, after it was found to have made suspicious payments worth millions of pounds... more
So says a City veteran as regulators move to curb the aggressive gambling on falling shares that many in London and New York believe has helped bring about the financial crisis ... more
London Gateway, the £1.5bn container port under construction on the Thames at Thurrock, will have capacity to unload six of the world's largest ships at one time and have as much impact on the capital as a new airport or half a dozen Westfield shopping centres
With London Fashion Week kicking off on Friday, British designer Matthew Williamson tells Rosamund Urwin about breaking up with his ex, post-show partying and his new model man
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