Gwen Robinson

Basel to tighten banks? capital limits

Plans to make banks hold greater capital reserves and limit the amount they can borrow have been outlined by the standard-setting Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, in efforts to salvage a global regulatory framework for...

AstraZeneca to cut 1,400 jobs

AstraZeneca, the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceuticals group, on Thursday announced 1,400 job cuts across Europe as it revealed it had won a reprieve in the battle over its blockbuster asthma drug Pulmicort with a generic rival. The...