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Lloyds considers raising a further £1.5bn

Popularity of debt-for-equity swap prompts banking group to think about extending offer while share price climbs

Radical approach to financial regulation required

Five years ago, central bankers and regulators thought we knew how to set capital requirements. Now we know we don’t

London office rents to soar due to shortage

The number of office blocks being built has hit its lowest level, which will lift rents by up to 15 per cent from 2011

Nakheel's debt turns spotlight on Islamic bonds

The Nakheel bond is being watched closely by Islamic investors as a bellwether for the shaky finances of Dubai

City institutions raise their stakes in Cadbury

Analysts say that the move by investors underlines their disappointment at Kraft's bid for the confectioner

Top 100 graduate employers: No 47 - Cadbury

Confectionery group is a household name. It recruits 15 graduates across four areas of the company each year

Renault-Nissan takes on the Tato Nano

The car manufacturer has signed a deal with Bajaj Auto, an Indian group best known for its motorcycles and three-wheelers

Renault-Nissan advances plan to undercut Nano

French-Japanese partnership finally agrees deal with Indian group Bajaj Auto and sets 2012 target for lost-cost runabout

IMS Health to be bought for $5.2 billion

TPG and Canada Pension to buy data provider to pharmaceuticals industry in largest leveraged buyout since start of year

GSK and Pfizer launch joint HIV venture

Viiv, a collaboration between GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer, has launched with a mandate to pool the two groups’ HIV treatments

Reliance plans swoop on LyondellBasell

India's biggest company weighs up multibillion-dollar swoop on the American assets of the collapsed chemicals group

Industries demand action over scrap metal thieves

Lobbyists want the Government to amend the Scrap Metal Dealers Act, so that dealers could not pay for scrap with cash

Fifty seeks administration after sale talks fail

London casino and private members’ club expected to apply to court for permission to begin proceedings

Branson goes Dutch with latest lottery bid

Sir Richard joins forces with People’s Postcode Lottery in move for Camelot, which could fetch up to £250 million

Trinity Mirror revenue fall slows to 20% drop

Owner of the Daily Mirror sees national newspapers continue to outperform regionals amid small sign of improvement

BBC top earners' details to go public

Climate inaction 'may cost $500bn a year'

The IEA warns that the annual cost would result from a steady build-up of additional concentrations of greenhouse gases

Gas glut will weaken ‘Russian grip on Europe’

The International Energy Agency says that the surplus in global supplies may hit 200 billion cubic metres a year by 2015

OFT to investigate the high cost of going bust

Watchdog launches inquiry into UK's corporate insolvency market over fears companies are paying too much to go bankrupt

Downturn makes no dent in pay of top lawyers

While smaller firms are reining in payments to partners, at leading City law firms, hundreds earned more than £1 million

Marks & Spencer looks to the Continent again

The retailer is understood to have enlisted advisers to identify locations in Western Europe for its Simply Food outlets

Morrisons drops fishy advert

Supermarket retailer withdraws advertisement following complaints to the ASA about unsubstantiated claims over fish

HP to buy 3Com for $2.7bn to take on Cisco

The deal to acquire 3Com will double Hewlett-Packard's presence in the global networking equipment market

Sun pays high price in Oracle’s takeover bid

The delay is costing the database company hundreds of millions of dollars as its corporate customers flee the uncertainty

BT profits tumble 45% as cost cutting swells

Telecoms group raises cost reduction target to £1.5bn and expects a fall in full year revenue to be less than expected

BT rivals might pay towards £6bn pension gap

Ofcom will investigate whether telecoms group should take liabilities into account when billing others for using network

BA and Iberia move closer to merging

A deal would cap 16 months of fraught negotiations in which the two carriers have had to deal with many problems

Aero Inventory crashes as banks lose faith

The aviation stockholding group said it was with "deep regret" that it had to request to be placed under administration

Nuclear industry may be climate levy exempt

Department for Energy and Climate Change has been studying possibility of immunity from tax designed to boost efficiency

SSE profit hard to understand, say critics

Consumer group dismayed by earnings at utility, although company says the figures do not compare well with 2007