The role of NY attorney-general has been transformed since Eliot Spitzer turned it from a routine state law-enforcement job into a nationally important crusade against financial wrongdoing

Wall Street is backing the right-hand man of Elliot Spitzer, its previous scourge, in the race for one of the most powerful financial law enforcement jobs in the US, the New York attorney-general, according to new analysis of campaign contributions

A meeting today between MEPs, the European Commission and the rotating Belgian EU Presidency could pave the way for a deal on the creation of the three new European Supervisory Authorities (ESA) and the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), the FT reports. Die Presse claims that a final agreement is as good sealed.

Err, no, they don’t. FT Alphaville has lovely fun mocking AEP and his piece on thorium based reactors. Now it’s true that AEP was a tad over the top: but nothing in his piece was wrong, even if he glossed over the odd technical difficulty. You can run a reactor on thorium, there is lot’s of it

Savage cuts have seen one in six financial services jobs disappear since 2008

Whatever else may be plaguing the financial sector, Standard Life is not the new problem. On the contrary. But what gives the news of 600 job cuts real resonance is the wider

'Definite possibility' of agreement on how to reform the EU's patchy system of financial supervision, including the establishment of pan-EU watchdogs for the banking, insurance and financial market sectors

The European Union reached a long-awaited agreement on reform of financial supervision, paving the way for the establishment of three pan-EU watchdogs to oversee controls on banks and insurers in the region from next year

France warned European commissioners yesterday (31 August) that it will crack down on financial bets made in commodities markets to prevent speculative price movements.

Led by Germany, performances of many of the continent's main economies have improved noticeably in recent weeks, as shown in the ninth edition of the Financial Times' economic weather map