Cuisine de France bakery owner Aryzta has agreed on an underwriting deal with five banks, setting the stage for raising €800m in new capital to strengthen its balance sheet.

The former head of Europe’s biggest bank and a former Tory trade minister has said he is “ashamed” of how the UK has treated Ireland on Brexit negotiations.

And now for something completely different, we take a look at some of the lighter stories from the happenings of the European Union.

If banks and bankers do not learn, we have no choice but to make them, writes Paul Mills.

Over the last few days we’ve detailed how schools’ green flag programmes are fostering a greater understanding and urgency about how we develop ways of existing without further damaging the only environment we have.

Banking giant HSBC is set to pay out £40m in fines and compensation after one of its subsidiaries sold savings products to elderly customers who were likely to die before the recommended investment period was up, the UK's regulator said today.

Dublin: Insurance broker Marsh has acquired HSBC Insurance Brokers Ltd (HIBL), a subsidiary of HSBC Bank.

MUNICH RE, the second largest reinsurance company in the world, has acquired Dublin-based financial software firm Allfinanz for €48 million.

British banking giant HSBC has said it is teaming up with Norwich Union in an attempt to improve its lacklustre performance in the insurance sector.

Software solutions provider Focus has signed a €8.8m contract with HSBC Bank for the development and supply of the first phase of a large-scale, multi-channel, point-of-sale system, to support HSBC's multi-tie distribution channel for life, pensions and investment products.

FORMER Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet may have stashed millions of dollars in gold in a Hong Kong bank.

Two people were injured in an explosion at the front of a British bank in south-eastern Turkey, a police official said today.

FIRST DATA CORPORATION, a global leader in electronic commerce and payment services, has signed a three-year global merchant processing agreement between its Irish-based affiliate OmniPay - an international merchant acquiring platform - and HSBC Bank.

Britain's HSBC bank has replaced current chairman John Bond after he called time on 45 years at the UK’s second largest company.

Turkish police today detained more than 10 people suspected of preparing to attack Israeli tourists, including one who they believe manufactured the bombs for the 2003 attacks on the British Consulate and British-owned HSBC bank in Istanbul, private NTV television said.

There is a “genuinely high risk” of repeat attacks by the bombers who inflicted carnage on London last week, terrorism experts warned today.

Internet giant Yahoo yesterday launched an online payment service allowing users to send money to family and friends in 182 countries, even if they have no bank accounts or internet access.

A Turkish court charged three more alleged accomplices in the Istanbul suicide bombings with membership in an illegal organisation and aiding an illegal organisation.

More terrorist attacks may be “imminent” in the Turkish cities of Istanbul and Ankara, the Foreign Office warned today.

Several suspected accomplices of the suicide bombers who struck in Istanbul last week were expected to be brought before a court to face charges today, a leading Turkish newspaper reported.

SHATTERED bodies and rubble were once more strewn across the streets of Turkey's commercial capital Istanbul yesterday, in a strike against Britain that US and British leaders called a challenge to their war on terror.

A BOMB apparently hidden in a pickup truck exploded yesterday at the offices of a US-allied Kurdish political party in Kirkuk, killing five people and wounding 40, including children.

Wall Street retreated Thursday as a wave of terror attacks continued in Turkey with the bombings of HSBC bank and the British consulate. Upbeat reports on employment and the economy helped limit the market’s losses.

Explosions hit the British Consulate and the Turkish headquarters of the London-based HSBC bank in Istanbul today, killing at least 26 people and wounding more than 400.

At least six people were feared dead and 100 injured today after three explosions shook Istanbul, including blasts in front of the British consulate and outside the Turkish headquarters of the HSBC bank.

A man appearing to have explosives strapped around his waist entered a British bank in the Lebanese capital, threatening to blow it up.

Telecoms giant BT today ended its five-year involvement with BSkyB’s interactive television arm by selling shares in the group for £120m (€188m).

Lenders have reacted swiftly to the Bank of England announcement by passing the full impact of the interest rate cut on to homeowners.