
- Nationwide is buying Dunfermline Building Society's brand, branches and good loans and deposits. Leagas Delaney and CCHM:ping handle Nationwide's advertising; Family Advertsising handles Dunfermline, which spends less than £1 million on advertising.....
- Chief executives Rick Wagoner and Christian Streiff have been ousted from General Motors and Peugeot Citroen respectively...
- Barack Obama has refused additional financial support to GM and Chrysler...
- Tesco has unveiled plans to open 30 in-store bank branches by the end of the year...
- Global merger and acquisition activity fell by 36 per cent year on year in the first quarter according to the Financial Times.