San Marino banks seek to polish thuggish image
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Residents from the seaside resort of Rimini on Italy's Adriatic coast quietly admit that a short drive to nearby microstate San Marino has allowed many to hide cash from the taxman for decades.
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Citigroup on Friday launched a legal  challenge against a restructuring plan drawn up by Parmalat,  hitting back after the bankrupt food group took the world's  biggest bank to court recently.
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Defenders of financial rigour in the European Union attacked Tuesday a German call for a radical overhaul of the eurozone's budget rules at a lively meeting of EU finance chiefs.
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Business & money: Bank could step in to tackle fresh inflation fears.
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Defenders of financial rigour in the European Union attacked German calls for a radical dilution of the eurozone's budget rules at a lively meeting of EU finance chiefs.
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Red-faced European Union bureaucrats have agreed to urgently look at how "euro" is being spelt by some of new EU member states from eastern Europe after central bankers noted discrepancies.
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Citigroup (CN: Quote, Profile, Research) on Friday launched a legal challenge against Parmalat&#39;s restructuring plan, hitting back after the bankrupt food group
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(AGI) - Rome, 15 Dec - The special commissioner for Parmalat Enrico Bondi is ready &quot;to present over the next few days legal action seeking to recover over a billion dollars from dozens of Italian banks which aided the company&#39;s finances before its
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How to navigate the treacherous waters of financial union.
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A &#36;5 billion bank account that never existed, a computer smashed with a hammer to hide phony records, a captain of Italian industry thrown behind bars. A year ago attention focused on the northern Italian city of Parma as what the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission dubbed "one of the largest and most brazen corporate financial frauds in history" began to unravel.
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Pray or pay. At dozens of Italian churches struggling to preserve art treasures from Byzantine mosaics to Baroque paintings, that is the choice many visitors must make.
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An Italian town&#39;s mayor hopes to shame men  into not using prostitutes by photographing cars that pick them  up and publishing the details in local newspapers.
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This is one bank storming through the current credit woes.
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Business & money: Specialist teams to tackle illegal lending.
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Huge pools of state-controlled cash have rescued American and European banks from their own mistakes. And the people who run those funds want some respect.
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The move will represent a significant stepping up of efforts by Enrico Bondi, the administrator, to target financial institutions that he believes helped prolong fraud at Parmalat by helping the company with ...
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Italy's government approves a tough set of measures to tackle football hooliganism.