"Who could be interested in Regus?" That was the question on the lips of almost every trader in the City, as shares in the serviced office provider rocketed... more
Zurich Financial Services is selling part of its UK operations to Swiss Re as it seeks to unlock capital and boost its position in its key markets... more
Seven car insurers, including Aviva and Royal Sun Alliance, agree to stop using software that shares policy prices after the Office of Fair Trading said it could limit competition... more
Zurich Financial Services’ nine-month profit misses expectations with a 13% fall after the Swiss insurer suffers a writedown in its Russian car cover unit... more
Welcome back to Ron Beller. The former Goldman Sachs partner who went on to found the London-based hedge fund manager, Peloton Partners in 2005 is returning to the market with a new fund... more
Market Round-up: AIM-listed Sherborne Investors, a very activist fund manager, wastes no time doubling its stake in F&C Asset Management to just above 10%... more
Swiss insurer Zurich Financial Services is licking its wounds after taking a $330 million (£208 million) charge on its commercial-property lending business in the UK... more
Tony Blair is to earn a six-figure sum from top Mayfair hedge fund Lansdowne Partners giving its executives talks on his “geopolitical insights”.... more
Standard Life admitted today the pensions and life insurance market is “pretty horrible” but set itself up as the stand-out company in the sector by increasing its dividend... more
As Lloyds Banking Group began its search for a new chairman today, it launched a £4 billion fund-raiser to buy back the Government’s preference shares.
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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
Royal Bank of Scotland dramatically scrapped the sale of its insurance division, which includes Direct Line and Churchill and had originally been expected to raise the bank up to £7 billion in badly needed capital... more
Zurich Financial, the world's fifth-largest insurer, saw operating profits fall 15% to $4.2bn in the first nine months, amid a double hit by hurricanes and the financial markets slump... more
RSA Insurance provided one of the few beams of sunshine in a gloomy market, jumping 7.2p to 165.5p on rumours that another foreign predator, this time Germany’s Allianz, is sniffing around... more
Steve Johnson’s first day in one of the hardest jobs in retail was met by a surprise jump in the Woolworths share price on talk that suitors were circling the struggling chain... more
Royal Bank of Scotland has switched its attention to Commonwealth Bank of Australia in its search for a buyer for ABN Amro's investment banking and corporate finance business in Asia... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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