One of the world’s most notorious activist investors, Carl Icahn, has been stirring up trouble among some of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies in recent years

A sharpened focus on corporate social responsibility has given rise to a legal framework by which non-financial performance can be measured

Silicon Roundabout, London’s technology hub, has been talked up by the government, but it is little more than a marketing exercise?

Under new rules, the eight biggest US banks have until 2018 to boost their capital by $68bn, say US regulators, who are still tightening policy in the wake of the financial crisis

Mary Barra attempted to calm safety concerns voiced by the public, though admitted that the underlying reasons for the late recall are yet to emerge

India expected to elect pro-business Modi, despite concerns over his past

The WTO has ruled against China for imposing restrictive rare earth export quotas that sent prices soaring and distorted the market

The world’s biggest retailer has sued Visa for $5bn in damages after it says that the credit card company hiked charges

World Finance interviews Barbara Jacobson, one of the organisers of the European Citizens’ Initiative for an Unconditional Basic Income, about whether such a system is feasible for Europe

George Osborne’s 2014 Budget has been met with mixed reaction. Finance journalists Sandra Kilhof and Rita Lobo weigh up the case for and against the election-year announcement

Obama leads the way with tougher sanctions on Russia, but will the EU follow suit?

Although growth in emerging markets such as Mexico took a hit last year, Grupo Financiero Banorte, a financial institution with extensive local knowledge, is offering an economic lifeline

World Finance interviews Mariana Gheorghe, CEO of oil and gas group OMV Petrom, on corporate governance in Romania

A recent oil boom in the US has led to an unexpected narrowing of the trade deficit, bringing it down to the lowest point since the fourth quarter of 2009

Emerging markets were once perceived as the salvation of the world economy – but things have taken a turn for the worse, and developing countries have been hit hard by mood swings in the global financial markets