Prudential chief executive Tidjane Thiam must have been shaking his head in despair today as the Asian business whose failed takeover almost cost him his job staged a hugely successful flotation in Hong Kong... more
AIG agrees a plan with the US government to repay its $182.3 billion bailout, just over two years after it was rescued from the brink of collapse... more
Goldman Sachs says it believes its trades with AIG’s London-based financial products division were accurate, in response to criticism that it benefited from the firm's US bailout... more
Prudential's top bosses today defied calls to quit over the collapse of its 35.5 billion US dollar (£24.3 billion) bid for US insurance giant AIG's Asian arm... more
The chief executive of AIG is confident Prudential’s £24 billion deal for the US firm’s Asian life insurance unit will go through, a source claims... more
US pay czar Kenneth Feinberg has rejected pay packages proposed by bailed-out insurance giant American International Group and branded them inconsistent with the public interest ... more
American International Group today agreed the biggest asset sell-off since the $182 billion (£115.5 billion) bail-out of the giant insurer by the US government last year ... more
Disgraced insurer American International Group is poised to pay a string of multi-million-dollar bonuses to executives despite taking US government aid of $180 billion to prevent its total collapse... more
Fallen insurance giant American International Group (AIG) sold its US motor insurance business to Zurich Financial Services for $1.9 billion (£1.3 billion)... more
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has called for more power to deal with failing financial institutions other than banks, such as insurance giant AIG... more
Insurance: Struggling insurance giant American International Group is heading for the biggest quarterly loss in corporate history - losing a massive $60 billion... more
Transport: The airline leasing company that oils the wheels of the global aviation industry is up for sale in an increasingly desperate attempt by its parent AIG to raise up to $10 billion... more
Embattled insurer AIG is said to be close to a sale of Hartford Steam Boiler, the largest North American equipment-breakdown insurer, to Munich Re for up to $1 billion... more
Investment: Sir Mark Weinberg’s St James’s Place group has offered a support package to those who have lost heavily from the collapse of US insurance giant AIG... more
Ailing AIG is to receive an increased $150 billion bailout package from the US Federal Reserve in a sign that the insurance giant needs far more help than previously announced... 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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