On Friday, the US FinCEN reported that Capital One Financial Corp admitted violation of anti-money laundering regulations, thus receiving a $390M penalty.
The US Treasury began of Friday distributing $15B in payroll assistance to air companies suffered from the pandemic restrictions.
General Motors Co together with Unifor labor unit announced on Friday that they would invest C$1B CAMI Assembly Plant to produce electric vans.
As reported by the US Commerce Department on Friday, the US retail sales declined for a third consecutive month in December.
Goldman Sachs Group will be the issuer for General Motors Co's credit card portfolio, both companies said in a statement on Friday.
Shares of France's retailer Carrefour declined by 4.5% on Friday after the French government vetoed a potential $20 billion takeover of Carrefour by the Canadian Alimentation Couche-Tard.
The United Kingdom economy declined by 2.6% in November, as the country went into a new COVID-19 lockdown, official data showed on Friday.
On Friday, the French oil and gas company Total said that it would not renew its 2021 membership with the US American Petroleum Institute over the lobby's climate policies.
On Friday, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the United States had imposed fresh sanctions against two Iranian individuals and seven entities.
On Friday, Wall Street's main indexes continued to decline. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 233.38 points at 10:40 a.m. ET, while the S&P 500 lost 28.29 points or 0.75%.
The Dutch government has resigned over a child welfare benefits scandal, Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced on Friday.
On Friday, Amazon Web Services opened the first office located in Greece, aiming to back the growing number of public sector agencies and firms using Amazon's cloud services.
US retail sales tumbled for the third consecutive month in December due to job losses and new restrictions introduced to lower the coronavirus spread in the country.
JPMorgan Chase posted a better-than-expected 42% surge in its Q4 profit on Friday, boosted by the reserves release the lender had built up for the coronavirus-related loan losses.
On Friday, Wells Fargo reported its quarterly profit topped Wall Street's outlook, as credit costs fell and offset the hurt from low-interest rates that were meant to uphold the devastating economy amid the coronavirus pandemic.
On Friday, Citigroup posted a 7% drop in its Q4 profit; however beating Wall Street expectations, as a rebounding economic outlook allowed the bank to release the cash previously deemed for bad loans.
On Friday, UK airline Virgin Atlantic stated it had finalised its leaseback and sale of two Boeing's 787 aircraft, as planemaker seeks to boost its balance sheet.
Alphabet's Google removed several lending apps from its Play Store in India to protect consumers, the company announced on Thursday.
On Thursday, Samsung Electronics revealed its new flagship Galaxy S smartphone, over a month earlier than the company's usual schedule for the annual phone release.
During Friday's European trading hours, crude oil price benchmarks declined, as a decrease in demand in China was expected.
Naturgy, the Spanish power company, is planning an investment of up to $1.8B in the US after its $57M acquisition of Hamel Renewables, the solar energy developer.
Goldman Sachs Group is exploring new acquisition deals to boost Marcus, its consumer banking unit, after lender slowed deposit and loan growth at the fledgeling business in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The Dutch delivery firm Just Eat Takeaway.com and the US company Chipotle Mexican Grill are expecting a return to nearly normal dining out levels by this year's spring or summer.
ThoughtWorks, the software consultancy company, stated it had raised as much as $720M from Siemens, GIC and other investors at the enterprise valuation of $4.6B.