Financial

ABN AMRO brokerage/Merrill Lynch

Adecco expands

AIG/General Electric

Allianz

Audit oligopoly

Aviva/AmerUS

AXA profile

Axa/Winterthur

Aviva buys AmerUS

Big Four auditors and divestment

Big Four auditos and protection

BlackRock/Merrill Lynch deal

Cigna headquarters bingo

Commercial real estate

Credit rating oligopoly

Credit rating oligopoly and the mortgage crisis

Credit card issuers

Debt collection industry

E*Trade buys BrownCo

Equity bubble?

FedEx/Kinko's

FirstData expands in Italy

First Data/Concord EFS   More

GCA buys Savvian

GE sells insurance businesses

GE Money in Asia

Generali/Toro

Genworth sells division to Sun Life

GM sells GMAC

GM sells GMAC mortgage division

HSBC profile

ICAP buys EBS Group

Inter-broker services merger

Investment banking industry

John Hancock/Manulife

J.P. Morgan/ Bank One merger

Law firms expand

Law merger

Legg Mason swaps assets with Citigroup

MetLife becomes #1 in life

MGIC to buy Raidan

Munich Re buys Midland

Nasdaq buys OMX

New York Stock Exchange buys Euronext

North Fork Bancorp/GreenPoint Financial

Payday loan companies

Private-public equity

Scor/Converium reinsurance deal

Scor/Revios insurance deal

St. Paul/Travelers Casualty

State Street buys IFS

Temp staffing industry

UnitedHeath/Oxford

US insurance mergers ahead

Wachovia buys A.G. Edwards

Wal-mart banking battle

World bank competition