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Architas senior fund manager Dawn Kendall examines the current financial situation in Greece and considers the possible impact for the wider European community.

Spain has put in place a public sector borrowing cap in an effort to ease its debt burden.

Prudential's head of portfolio management group John Betteridge explains why recent market turbulence should not be compared with the crisis of three years ago.

The European Central Bank said last night it would "actively implement" its controversial bond-buying programme to fight the euro zone's debt crisis, signalling it will buy Spanish and Italian government bonds.

Although the second bailout of Greece may have calmed markets in the short-term, the recent volatility in Italian and Spanish bond markets signalled the beginning of a new and critical phase.

Investment Week and our sister title InvestmentEurope provide ongoing updates of the latest industry thoughts around today's crisis talks on the future of the euro.

Hector Sants, the current chief executive of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), and Bank of England governor Mervyn King have been named among the most influential people in the European capital markets.

The European Central Bank has hiked its benchmark interest rate to 1.5% as expected.

The European Central Bank has indicated it will raise interest rates for a second time in four months at next week's meeting.

The Bank of England has again held rates at 0.5% amid signs the economic recovery is failing to gather momentum.