Puerto Rican officials have agreed a new budget plan in an effort to improve the finances of the debt-stricken island, avoiding economic collapse

With a booming tourism industry, Iceland has announced an end to the capital controls imposed since the 2008 financial crisis

Prominent asset manager State Street will vote against companies failing to address their gender imbalance within the next year

Standard Life has agreed a deal to purchase Aberdeen Asset Management, creating the largest fund manager in the UK

The CEO of Zurich Turkey looks at the global economic effects of the US President’s infrastructure ambitions

President Donald Trump has reiterated his commitment to stimulating the American economy after US growth fell to its lowest rate since 2011 in 2016

Owner of Burger King and Tim Hortons is set to add Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen to its roster for $1.8bn

Shares in Unilever fell by eight percent after Kraft Heinz dramatically dropped its takeover bid

The new deal aims to eliminate 98 percent of tariffs on exported goods and is expected to boost the volume of trade between the partners by 20 percent

Tech giant SoftBank has opted to buy private equity firm Fortress; diversifying its portfolio and driving the company’s ‘SoftBank 2.0 transformation strategy’

Swiss voters have rejected a proposal to overhaul corporate taxes; leaving no clear solution to a system condemned by many for favouring multinationals

Sweeping measures on taxation could create a harmonised structure across the EU, but this in turn could severely weaken countries’ tax systems

While it is becoming clear many jobs will move out of London in the wake of Brexit, it is smaller operations and back-office jobs that are most at threat

Foreign direct investment from China reached a record $94.2bn in 2016, yet a further 30 deals worth $74bn were cancelled

Donald Trump will launch a review into the Dodd-Frank law, a move which could scale back regulations introduced in response to the 2008 financial crash