Royal Bank of Canada, one of the country's largest banks, is accused of "multi-hundred million dollar" fraud over derivatives trading by a US regulator.

One-in-five clubs in the Football League are in "poor financial health", according to a survey by administrators Begbies Traynor.

CIMB says it will acquire most of Royal Bank of Scotland's Asia-Pacific units in a deal worth 431.8m Malaysian ringgit ($141m; £88m).

The UK economy has shown a few signs of improvement in the first three months of this year but is still weak, the British Chambers of Commerce says.

Increasing the time before workers are protected from unfair dismissal from one year to two years could affect 2.7 million people, union bosses say.

Samsung Electronics, the world's biggest memory chip maker, unveils plans to invest $7bn (£4.4bn) to build its first chip factory in China.

The Pret a Manger sandwich chain is creating 550 jobs in the UK this year as the company continues a rapid expansion.

The number of Spanish people filing for unemployment benefits rose for the eighth month in a row to a record 4.75 million in March, figures show.