Founded in 1977, it is the world's fourth biggest provider of offshore services.
Mossack Fonseca is the world's fourth biggest provider of offshore services.
Shares have fallen on the back of two years of heavy losses as the UK's second biggest provider of mortgages and savings faced up to costly one-off charges from its investments in corporate banking.
The scenes triggered a postmortem into how a major bank - the fifth biggest provider of mortgages in the country - could reach the brink of collapse without any apparent action to prevent it from going under.
It has a five-year $2bn investment plan and is the second biggest provider of networks after Ericsson, with a 25-30% market share, It also supplies telecom systems to companies, and has a substantial share of the market for devices such as data cards and phones, and a large research centre in Bengaluru (Bangalore).
China NetCom is a major player in the Chinese ISP market and is the second biggest provider in the country.
Last week we had another French here making headlines in the business and economics sections: Xavier Niel -- the boss of the French Iliad Communication group -- decided to scrap his plans to take over T-Mobile, the third biggest mobile provider in the country.
The largest cobalt deposits in the world are in Katanga - and the province is the second biggest African provider of copper.
The UK's second biggest broadband provider, Sky, has also announced plans to offer a mobile phone service, allowing it to offer its own rival "quad-play" bundle - including internet, landline phone, TV and mobile - but has not scheduled the launch until 2016.
Smith is the industry's biggest provider of drilling fluids, and the second-biggest provider of drill bits, according to a report issued last week by RBC Capital Markets.
Home & Overseas, the third-biggest provider of travel cover after CGNU and Axa, says foot and mouth does not qualify under its policies, though it looks at each case individually.
