A senior Banco Santander executive was on Tuesday night charged with insider trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission in relation to the hostile $39bn bid by BHP Billiton for PotashCorp.
US regulators on Thursday charged Samuel and Charles Wyly, two billionaire brothers whose interests range from software to restaurants, with reaping more than $550m in undisclosed gains by trading shares in companies on whose boards they sat.
The following document provides further information on the EU-wide stress test exercise which is now being finalised by the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) and the national supervisory authorities, in close cooperation with the ECB.