Buyout vehicle Resolution expects to have £500m of excess cash to return to shareholders over the next 12 months after completing its review of new proposition Friends Life.

US Treasury secretary Tim Geithner yesterday panned the UK's "light touch" regulation in the build up to the financial crisis.

The eyes of the world's investors will be on the European financial markets this morning after a day in which eurozone debt fears saw the FTSE suffer its heaviest one-day fall in two months.

European governments yesterday discussed the prospect of a fresh multi-billion euro bailout for Greece - just a year after committing €110bn - in a bid to calm the markets and stabilise the region's currency.

Britain's economic growth will fall significantly short of official forecasts as government cuts take their toll, according to a leading think-tank.

Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) contributed more than £4m last year toward compensating investors in failed investment company Keydata.

Portugal's caretaker prime minister Jose Socrates has announced he has reached agreement on a bail-out from the EU and the International Monetary Fund.

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Tim Geithner, the US Treasury secretary, shrugged off warnings from a leading ratings agency about the US public finances as he sought to reassure Wall Street he world's largest economy would be able to maintain its highly-prized AAA rating.

The final cost to BP from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster could reach $60bn (£37bn), according to fresh analysis from ratings agency Moody's.