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Barclays is closing in on a £650m deal to offload control of its UK payments business to the Canadian investment giant Brookfield Asset Management...

The owner of high-street pharmacy chain Boots is being bought by a private equity firm, and it will no longer be a public company...

Donald Trump has announced that most goods imported from Mexico and some from Canada are to be exempt from his trade tariff regime for...

Barclays is expected to pay millions in compensation for recent IT outages which prevented customers from banking. The lender said it expects to pay...

Donald Trump is to exclude carmakers across North America from the pain of US tariffs levelled against Mexico and Canada, following apparent pressure from...

Several billion pounds in spending cuts – including from the welfare budget – are expected in the spring statement later this month. The Treasury...

Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada have come into effect. The US president confirmed the tariffs in a speech at...

Around 1.3 million people on low wages are to secure guaranteed sick pay for the first time in a bid to boost health and...

Weapons companies’ share prices surged across Europe and the UK’s benchmark stock index reached a record high amid talk of increased defence spending. The...

TikTok, Reddit and Imgur are to be investigated by the UK’s data protection watchdog over how they use teenage users’ personal information. The Information...

CVC Capital Partners, the buyout giant, is serving up a $1bn (£790m) bid to buy a portfolio of tennis assets which includes two of...

Cryptocurrency prices have jumped after Donald Trump revealed he would like Bitcoin and other lesser-traded tokens to be in a new US strategic crypto...

The private equity backer of the technology company previously known as UKFast is exploring a sale that it hopes will fetch a £400m price...

A former chief executive of Aston Villa and Liverpool is a surprise contender to become the inaugural chairman of the government’s controversial football watchdog....

Microsoft has announced it will shut down Skype, once the dominant video call service, in May this year. At its peak, the service boasted...

The chairman of Kick It Out, the football anti-racism charity, has been shortlisted to become the first head of Britain’s proposed new Independent Football...

The banking sector is “investing heavily” in digital platforms, according to the body which represents the country’s lenders as many face a backlash over...

Donald Trump has opened the door to a possible US-UK trade deal without tariffs after a meeting with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. As...

The number of convictions linked to a second Post Office IT scandal being investigated for miscarriages of justice – has more than doubled, Sky...