It is evident to most people who do not have a vested interest in the proposed public health financing scheme that the present public health system does not need to be restructured but just improv

By Sudip Kar-Gupta LONDON (Reuters) - State-owned Royal Bank of Scotland paid out nearly a billion pounds in bonuses to staff for last year despite posting a fourth-quarter loss of nearly 2 billion pounds ...

This afternoon at Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU - News) headquarters, the company signed an agreement with I 2 R (a part of A*STAR ) that establishes a joint lab, to be called BIRC , in Singapore. The lab will initially ...

By Aditi Shah MUMBAI (Reuters) - The BSE Sensex fell for a second consecutive day on Thursday as investors took profits on expiry of monthly derivatives amid concerns about high oil prices. The 30-share ...

By Sven Egenter LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's banking industry needs sweeping changes so that it can better support small and medium-sized firms, and would benefit from more middle-sized banks which would ...

Stephen Hester, chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, defended the pay of its investment bankers on Thursday as the state-controlled group posted a deeper annual pre-tax loss of £766m.

Cynthia Bower has resigned as chief executive of the Care Quality Commission after sustained criticism of her performance in the job.

By Aditi Shah MUMBAI (Reuters) - The BSE Sensex fell for a second consecutive day on Thursday as investors took profits on expiry of monthly derivatives amid concerns about high oil prices. The 30-share ...

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With the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau now setting its sights on overdraft fees, checking accounts will be less profitable than ever.

The largest U.S. banks have already suffered revenue losses even before the latest regulatory crackdown.

Allianz said global economic conditions should improve in the second half of the year after Europe's biggest insurer by market capitalisation withstood its most expensive year for natural catastrophes....

Royal Bank of Scotland led its peers higher in London on Thursday, on growing hope that the worth of the company's core business remained undervalued by its share price.

British American Tobacco, the owner of the Lucky Strike and Dunhill brands, extended its share buy-back programme and increased its dividend after boosting full-year revenues on the back of higher prices ...

Should I take on someone with a history of stress-related illnesses? I'm tempted to rule them out but in this case the candidate does seem to have the best skills for the job.Tracey Reid, human resources ...

It has been one year since the government-commissioned Davies Report warned corporate Britain that it faced statutory quotas unless women were better represented in boardrooms.

Commerzbank is to swap junior debt for shares to boost core capital by €1bn and take the German bank closer to meeting European regulators' demands to shore up its balance sheet.

An Italian minister on Thursday met with two of his country's soldiers being held in custody in southern India over the fatal shooting of two Indian fishermen. Italy's junior foreign minister Staffan De ...