Alessandro Profumo, former chief executive of UniCredit and one of Italy’s most high-profile bankers, is frontrunner to take over as chairman of the bank

Institutions seeking to ditch debt to boost their balance sheets are finding little appetite from regional banks and other international lenders

Hugh Culverhouse, a former federal prosecutor, alleges that a failure to conduct proper due diligence led to steep losses in funds

Not all the measures being proposed by the financial regulator against the credit card insurer are proportionate and just. A compromise is needed

The regulator needs to replace its quaint and relatively powerless ‘court’ with a separate oversight board led by a powerful chairman

The buy-out investor says a deal to buy the London-based specialist would expand its presence among small and medium-sized enterprises

As the woes of Monte dei Paschi di Siena throws its home town into turmoil, its fate will test Italian willingness to?adjust?to?change, writes Rachel Sanderson

After working with the Wallenberg family, Conni Jonsson, chief of private equity firm EQT, has found his own success, writes Daniel Schäfer

Bank’s private equity arm seeks to accelerate its investments in European and US biotech, pharmaceutical and medical technology companies

He will receive about $5.9m worth of restricted stock, linked to the bank’s future performance, and some of which will not be payable until at least March 2015