Barclays and four former top bankers have appeared in court over side deals struck during emergency fundraising at the height of the financial crisis.

Britain’s accounting regulator has said it would investigate audits by PwC of BT Group after a scandal was uncovered this year at the Italian operations of the telecoms group.

Tesco agreed to pay £214m (€247m) to resolve regulatory probes into a 2014 accounting scandal that prompted a boardroom house-cleaning and an overhaul of the grocer’s supplier relations in the UK.

Tesco shares have fallen as the retailer faces a new claim for damages from an investor, in relation to its 2014 profit overstatement.

Britain’s Serious Fraud Office has said it has charged three former senior Tesco executives with fraud in its investigation into accounting practices at the UK’s biggest supermarket retailer.

Britain’s Serious Fraud Office is understood to be planning to announce a decision on whether to file criminal charges against individuals involved in the Tesco accounting scandal as soon as this month.

Three former Barclays traders have been found guilty by a London jury of conspiring to fraudulently manipulate global benchmark interest rates in a stark warning to junior bankers and a major victory for Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO).

Tesco, Britain’s biggest retailer, said its recovery was gaining pace but warned a supermarket price war meant profit growth would be hard to deliver this year.

UK prosecutors have obtained arrest warrants against five bankers who failed to appear to face charges for rigging a key interest-rate benchmark.

Cutting prices of Christmas puddings, turkeys, sprouts, and mince pies helped Tesco pull a better-than-expected performance out of its shopping bag over the holiday period.

Tesco has agreed to sell its South Korean business Homeplus in a £4.2 billion deal in the latest phase of the supermarket group’s turnaround plan.

Former Tesco chief executive Philip Clarke is reportedly set to be interviewed by England's Serious Fraud Office (SFO), which is investigating an accounting black hole at the supermarket.

Three British banks named in a US indictment relating to the Fifa corruption scandal are reviewing payments set out in the document.

The former trader on trial for allegedly conspiring to rig benchmark interest rates, has admitted to being motivated by greed and was fired by US bank Citigroup in 2010, the prosecution told a London court yesterday.

Tesco paid £4.1 million to new boss Dave Lewis in his first six months after he was brought in from consumer goods group Unilever to turn around the embattled supermarket.

Tesco, Britain’s biggest retailer, has named Deloitte as its new auditor, ending its 32-year relationship with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) after an accounting scandal.

Royal Bank of Scotland Group suspended bonuses of 18 traders as part of a review of foreign-exchange business in the wake of a $634m (€521.25m) fine.

The accounting watchdog has launched an investigation into a £263m overstatement of profit expectations at Tesco.

British grocer Tesco has cut profit expectations for the fourth time this year, blaming the cost of trying to recover from an accounting scandal and a slide in market share.

FIFA is facing the prospect of losing two of its biggest sponsors after airline Emirates decided not to renew its contract and electronics giant Sony also considering ending its links with the world governing body.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in the UK is reportedly poised to launch a formal criminal probe into Tesco following the supermarket's discovery of a £263m hole in its profit expectations.

A senior banker from a leading British bank has pleaded guilty to trying to rig the interbank lending rate Libor.

Germany’s FIFA member believes the 2022 World Cup will be moved from Qatar due to the extreme temperatures.

GlaxoSmithKline’s difficult year continued today as shares tumbled on a warning that it no longer expects to improve a key measure of earnings.

Three former employees of Barclays have been charged in relation to the alleged manipulation of Libor benchmark interest rates.

Drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline has launched an investigation into allegations of corruption in Iraq just months after becoming embroiled in a major bribery scandal in China.

Drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline has revealed a corruption probe in China sent sales of pharmaceuticals and vaccines in the country plummeting 61%.

This country has spent an enormous amount of money on exhaustive tribunals of inquiry that behaved as a tightly-closed shop, had no procurement procedures and whose extravagant spending was not subjected to either independent validation or expert oversight.

Another 18 GlaxoSmithKline employees have been detained by Chinese authorities as a major criminal investigation into alleged corruption widens.

Another 18 GlaxoSmithKline employees have been detained by Chinese authorities as a major criminal investigation into alleged corruption widens.

Irish Rail has been criticised for awarding a €30m track maintenance contract to a company found responsible for a fatal train crash in Britain.

Britain’s fraud prosecutor yesterday charged two former brokers at interdealer broker RP Martin with conspiracy to defraud, stepping up its investigation into the rigging of Libor benchmark interest rates.

Two fraudsters who conspired to swindle banks of hundreds of millions of pounds have been jailed.

Fraud, bribery and rate-rigging in the banking industry were laid bare today as Swiss bank UBS agreed a £940m (€1.16bn) settlement with regulators in another damning day for the sector.

Swiss bank UBS agreed today to pay £940m (€1.1bn) to regulators in the biggest penalty yet from the industry’s Libor-rigging scandal.

The founder of a collapsed $600m (€459m) hedge fund has been charged with a raft of fraud offences, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said today.

Rolls-Royce shares were 2% lower today as investors faced up to more details of the bribery claims relating to contracts in Indonesia.

Engines giant Rolls-Royce has disclosed it is in talks with the Serious Fraud Office in relation to concerns about bribery and corruption.

A Co Tipperary man at the centre of a multi-billion euro corporate writedown said he was shocked at allegations of accounting malpractice levied against him by Hewlett Packard (HP).

Hewlett-Packard took an US$8.8bn hit today as it accused former staff at a UK software company it bought last year of accounting irregularities.

A senior AIB banker claimed there was no doubt that Achilleas Kallakis was at the helm of a number of special-purpose vehicles used to buy UK properties, jurors at Southwark crown court in London heard.