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Britain’s intelligence agencies spied on foreign politicians and officials at two G20 meetings in London in 2009, according...

Rarely has a commitment from the Group of Eight leading countries been broken so quickly as its pledge to leave discussion...

The London Stock Exchange Group will launch an electronic platform for swaps in Europe, pushing it further into fixed-income...

Tony Blair vowed to “make poverty history” at the G8 summit at Gleneagles in 2005. Gordon Brown was lauded for tackling the...

By Marcos Troyjo of Columbia University The creation of the Brics Development Bank, announced during the Brics Summit in...

David Cameron on Monday confronted critics in his party who want to withdraw from the EU and close Britain’s borders,...

Asian stocks fell, with the Nikkei declining more than 3% and the yen trading around 101.2, close to a three-week high. The...

Chinese hackers have stolen the blueprint for the new headquarters of Australia’s intelligence agency even before it opened,...

The US Senate’s probe of Apple’s tax affairs this week injected renewed urgency into the global effort to crack down on...

Complaining about the effect of Japan’s monetary easing on the value of the yen is virtually de rigeur among the country’s...

A time traveller to the Turkey of today, especially on a return ticket from 1980, would be scratching his head at the...

Asia’s banks may have avoided the worst of the global financial crisis, but its derivatives markets could still suffer the...

ROUND-UP FT markets round-up: "Wall Street managed to put aside an initial bout of nervousness over the quarterly earnings...

The dollar moved closer to the psychologically important level of Y100 against the yen on Monday after the international...

Monday 21:15 BST. Wall Street managed to put aside an initial bout of nervousness over the quarterly earnings season and...

The world’s leading economies set an objective on Saturday to boost growth and jobs at the end of a weekend of high-level...

Finance ministers from around the world have increased the pressure on the United States to finalise rules for trading...

Finance ministers meeting in Washington have thrown their weight behind the automatic exchange of tax information, in a sign...

The world’s leading economies acknowledged on Friday that “further actions are required” to put the global economy on track...

Guest post by Paul Hodges The G20 group represents 79 per cent of global GDP. But when it comes to demographics, you can...

Asian stocks rose, paring earlier losses and leading some analysts to say this week's sell-off was overdone. The MSCI Asia...

The US is tightening fiscal policy too fast and Spain needs more time for its fiscal squeeze, said Christine Lagarde as she...

Global securities and payments regulators have begun monitoring their national counterparts to ensure key principles that...

Starting this month, the 159 economies of the World Trade Organisation will begin the selection of a new director-general....

Leaders of the Brics group of emerging economies on Wednesday announced they had agreed to set up a development bank that...

China has leapt into the top five in a ranking of G20 countries that will compete best in a world that restricts greenhouse...

After days of anger and worry about the safety of their savings, hundreds of Cypriot protesters gathered outside the...

By Duncan Green of Oxfam The Brics grouping of countries is starting to generate some interesting conversations of its own....

Japanese regulators have approved plans for the country’s first data warehouse for over-the-counter derivatives by granting...

Almost 100 policy makers and academics have written to the US Congress urging the ratification of crucial reforms of the...

The drive to overhaul the derivatives markets in the wake of the financial crisis will take a significant step forward in...

Big Macs are out, horsemeat is in not in burgers perhaps, but at least in the latest headlines. What is rather evident,...

At the Toronto summit of the Group of 20 leading economies in June 2010, high-income countries turned to fiscal austerity....

Haruhiko Kuroda, president of the Asian Development Bank, emerged at the weekend as the frontrunner to win the government’s...

UK shares recently blasted through a solid barrier that had halted all other rally attempts for two years. A fresh bull...

The bulk of attention to new European rules concerning derivatives trading has been focused on the imposition of mandatory...

Brussels will take France and Luxembourg to the EU Court of Justice for having lower than usual tax rates for ebooks, a move...