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Investors have suggested the eurozone crisis has not yet reached another critical stage, despite a €100bn bailout of Spanish banks failing to prevent the country's borrowing costs reaching record highs last week.

Former Association of Consulting Actuaries chairman Adrian Waddingham has been awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list for services to the actuarial and pensions professions.

Workers at car company Ford are staging a 24-hour strike from 6am today in a dispute over pay and pensions.

The government's auto-enrolment plans are in danger of derailing because of "fantastically complicated" rules, experts warn.

Political parties supporting Greece's international bail-out have begun to assemble a government following an election victory over radical left wing opponents.

Business secretary Vince Cable could take action against Fred Goodwin and a small number of former Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) directors over the bank's collapse.

Moody's has downgraded the credit ratings of five of the Netherlands' largest banks as the country's economy struggles with a domestic recession and the effects of the eurozone crisis.

A market rally after pro-bailout party New Democracy scraped a narrow win at the Greek election has eased back amid uncertainty over the global economy and other eurozone countries.

MyCSP has secured 15 contracts to administer public sector schemes including those of the House of Lords, the Food Standards Agency and the Electoral Commission.

Aviva Investors is pushing for strengthened corporate sustainability reporting requirements in the climate change agreement at the United Nations Rio+20 Conference.