The continent-wide STOXX 600 rose 0.6% after plunging nearly 2% on Monday on worries of an economic slowdown in China and rapid U.S. intere...

Due to a "technical issue," 75,000 payments by some 2,000 corporate and commercial account holders were made twice to their recipients, the...

The deal comes as Europe's financial sector braces for lean times. With banks' profitability in recent years already dented by low interest...

Nordea Bank and BBVA also reported lower profits and fell more than 2 percent each.

Concern about sluggish global growth were reinforced this week by central banks in the euro zone and United States.

Arundhati Bhattacharya, 60 is ranked second on the list, while Kochhar comes in on the fifth spot and Sharma on the 19th position.

After five months of negotiations and competitive bidding, the Warburg-General Atlantic combine is said to have outmanoeuvred several globa...

Analysts say investors risk ignoring a jump in funding costs that will erode profit.

Spain's Banco Santander says its first-quarter net profit rose 5.7 per cent thanks to strong revenue growth despite the recession.

There is growing evidence that the market for initial public offerings is rebounding after essentially disappearing at the height of the cr...

Partially nationalised Dutch bank ABN Amro said Monday it had sustained a loss of 886 million euros (1.2 billion dollars) in the first quar...

Global banking giant HSBC declined to comment on a report it had a potential exposure of $1.5 bn to an alleged fraud scam by NY trader Bern...

Spain's banking major Banco Santander SA on Monday said it will raise 7.19 billion euro through issue of shares on rights basis.

Spain's Banco Santander will invest $1.2 billion over the next two years in its Brazilian operations and open 400 new branches, bank presid...

With a shrewd and low-risk expansion policy, Spain's largest bank Santander has escaped the global financial crisis and still remains on th...

Dutch-Belgian financial group Fortis said on Friday 2007 net profit fell 8.2 per cent after it took a 1.5 billion euros (2.3 billion dollar...

Fortis to sell e13.4 billion ($18.8 billion) of stock to existing shareholders to fund the ABN Amro acquisition.