French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde wants the EU to create a single access point for trading shares of young, high-growth businesses and has proposed a range of measures to encourage innovative companies to list on European stock exchanges.

A law firm is asked by MPs to provide precise information about its investigation into phone hacking at the News of the World.

Trading on the Iceland stock exchange has been suspended until Monday as hundreds of millions of pounds invested by British councils is at risk in the country's crisis.

The FTSE 100 has held firm despite turmoil on the world's stock exchanges after US lawmakers rejected the $700bn bail-out plan for the economy.

Law firm BPE has advised the owners of a Warwick-based specialist healthcare events company on its share sale to Closer Still Investments.

Leading partners at a top City law firm will for the first time be able to work flexibly under a plan that reflects the degree to which the industry is suffering an exodus of top women

America's leading energy regulator has accused a Dutch oil trading firm and three of its employees - including British-born Christopher Dowson - of manipulating the crude oil market for their own ends. In the first lawsuit of its kind since the agency began investigating alleged manipulation of the market in December 2007, the US Commodities

Hopes for new law on asbestos claims A LAW firm that has represented many former Barrow shipyard workers says it hopes a ban on compensation claims for asbestos lung scarring will soon be overturned by the government. Scottish MPs have already voted to overturn a 2007 ban on claims for pleural plaques and now trade unionists want

Paul Volcker, former Federal Reserve chief, pushed Democrats in Congress to adopt a firm ban on proprietary trading as they prepared for a public 'conference' to finalise financial regulatory reform

Grahnlaw blog post number 1,000 is a reason to take stock. Since April 2007 Grahnlaw has grown into a small electronic library of EU law and politics. Educational purpose The main purpose of Grahnlaw is to provide education for citizens and businesses. *** Beginnings In the beginning, I looked at the United States Constitution, the European Court of Human Rights and at deciding moments in the hist...