City Desk

The City of London is preparing for an assault on it position as a global financial hub, following the appointment of Michel Barnier to the post of Commissioner for the internal market and financial regulation in the EU.

President Sarkozy ...

Britain's strongest bank, HSBC has threatened to quit its London base if the Government moves to break up large banks.

Stuart Gulliver, head of the Canary Wharf-based bank's investment banking division, made the warning at a banking conference.

He said the plans caused "grave concerns" and it has:

City News Desk

Business lobby group the Federation of Small Businesses has warned that a double dip recession is more likely with the "unnecessarily stringent” bank restrictions to small and medium sized businesses in London.

The Federation of Small of Businesses which represents over 100,000 small ...

Every national newspaper has seen a year-on-year slump in readership with seven suffering double digit falls.

Tabloids and mid-market journals have faired better than their quality counterparts - The Daily Star's recent high risk strategy 10p cover price has seen daily sales rise.

The Observer was the biggest ...

News Desk

De La Rue the British company that prints banknotes has warned that the quality of some of its production of banknotes have been "compromised" raising fears that the security of banknotes may have been compromised.

Production at the De La Rue printing plant in ...

News Corp's top digital man Jonathan Miller has called reports that MySpace is for sale ""fabrications".

Miller was forced into denying reports that his company is thinking about selling off its flagging social networking firm after rumours emerged that the media giant was trying to off load the ...

BT and TalkTalk yesterday announced they were going to court in a bid to persuade judges to overturn elements of the controversial Digital Economy Act.

In particular, provisions relating to the three-strikes system for combating piracy, will be challenged on the grounds they contravene various aspects of European ...

Business News

Profile Jet Booking Direct

Private jet travel is no longer simply the mode of transport for the "uber-rich" but has become the method business people use to make those "essential" business meetings, with Rob Dore of Jet Bookings Direct working for some ...