Adam Posen is leaving the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) it was announced this afternoon.

Posen is to leave the MPC on 31 August to become president of Washington-based Peterson Institute for International Economics

Icap has bought the Plus Stock Exchange on a cash-free, debt-free basis for a nominal £1.

The European Union is planning for a Greek exit a European commissioner admitted today.

The UK Prime Minister David Cameron has set out a three-point plan to stop the eurozone spiralling out of control.

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Plus Markets is in talks with ICAP to shed its loss-making Plus Stock Exchange (Plus SX).

As European markets continue their fourth day of losses, the Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR) has warned that a Greek exit would cost the global economy $1trn (£0.627trn).

The European Central Bank has stopped monetary policy operations with some Greek banks as they have not been successfully recapitalised according to sources.

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The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has banned a senior executive at BGC Brokers from performing any regulated activity in the financial services industry.

Markets around the world continued to fall overnight as fears about the eurozone continued.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has criticised speculation over a Greek exit from the eurozone.

US regulators have finalised the supervisory guidance for the stress testing practices of banks worth more than $10bn (£6.22bn).

European stock exchanges have continued to fall this morning over fears for the eurozone.

Arsenal Football Club is one of over a hundred small companies that will have to find a new listing after British stock exchange Plus Markets announced it was planning to shut down after it failed to attract an acceptable takeover offer.

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