From Apple to airports: the movers and shakers of the next 12 months

Observer writers chose the big hitters of the business world they tip to make the news in the next year

RBS shares dip amid fears over scale of US fines

Report suggests potential penalties for pre-crisis packaging of US mortgage bonds could reach £5bn

TUC describes pay as ‘stratospheric’ as Goldman Sachs high-flyers earn £3m average with £1.4m at Barclays and £600,000 at RBS

Falling oil prices, sanctions and collapsing rouble take toll, with GDP in November 0.5% lower than in same month year ago

Swiss central bank wanted to discourage investors buying Swiss francs as a safe haven currency amid the rouble crisis

Announcement takes City by surprise and could reduce shareholding to 20% in run-up to election

Three out of eight high street banks found to be lacking financial strength in Bank of England tests

The longer the eurozone crisis drags on the bigger the benefit for parties suchas Ukip - if only Europe could recognise and learn from its mistakes

Vadera, once a trusted advisor to Gordon Brown during the 2008 financial crisis, will be one of the first women to chair a UK bank

Momentum gathers in battle against spending plan that dials back banking reforms as House Democrats dramatically withdraw support

Clause buried in 1,600-page spending bill could extend future public bailouts and Democrats rally around senator Elizabeth Warren to oppose plan

Sir David Walker asks how Sir John Peace can chair emerging markets bank, Burberry and credit checking firm Experian

All the latest economic and financial news, as the Greek presidential election spooks investors, sending shares down in Athens again

Central bank’s report says there is no evidence of a strong link between banking sector size and the probability of a crisis

Disclosure by the 80% taxpayer-owned bank shows the 10 received £1.9m of these allowances for the last four months of 2014