Business

A family-run industrial group is to change hands for £400m, giving a much-needed boost to a deals market slowing down amid growing economic anxiety....

Homeowners could soon be taking out 50-year mortgages to then be passed on to their children when they die, under new plans being considered...

The governor of the Bank of England is opposing plans drawn up by the Treasury that would allow ministers to overrule financial watchdogs on...

Tom Glick, a former executive at Manchester City FC’s parent company, is to take over the day-to-day running of Chelsea Football Club in the...

Klarna, the buy-now-pay-later credit provider, is trying to finalise a fresh capital injection likely to value it at less than $10bn – just 20%...

Aston Martin has said it is considering multiple funding options following reports that Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund was lining up a possible investment...

Talks between Network Rail and the RMT have resumed with the union warning it will announce more strike dates if the rail bosses press...

Thames Water is to tap shareholders for £1.5bn of new equity in an effort to accelerate its transformation plan, months after it was hit...

A two-year extension of tariffs on some foreign steel has been revealed by the government in a bid to protect domestic producers, despite pleas...

Kerry says she has £20,000 of debts and counting. She is one of an increasing number of people for whom the cost of living...

The international money-transfer service WorldRemit has become the latest fintech unicorn to take an axe to its workforce, as tumbling valuations force founders onto...

Four Seasons Health Care, one of Britain’s biggest care home operators, is putting the bulk of its operations up for sale three years after...

Petrol retailers have been accused of forcing “rocket and feather” pricing after unleaded hit a new, and unexpected, record average high over the weekend....

One of HSBC’s top UK executives is quitting in a surprise move to run the Skipton Building Society, one of Britain’s biggest financial mutuals....

The father-and-son duo who have built Matchroom Sport into a global sports promotion empire are plotting a deal that will cement their status among...

A cheap festival should not be an oxymoron but many people at Glastonbury this year are in a very different place financially to where...

The global chairman of KPMG has taken a swipe at the $80bn break-up being hatched by rival EY, implying that such a radical restructuring...

London Underground workers have voted to strike again, as they near the end of this week’s action which has seen tube services disrupted across...

Cath Kidston, the modern vintage brand, has been put up for sale just two years after collapsing into administration with the loss of nearly...