• November 22 2025
  Media

  Daily Mail owner strikes £500mn deal for Telegraph

  Tie-up would create one of the most powerful right-leaning media groups in Britain

  
• November 22 2025
  Insurance

  Why are so many home insurance claims being rejected?

  Customers tell of complex claims processes. ‘They bank on people rolling over and giving up’

  
• November 22 2025
  Ocado Group PLC

  How Ocado’s American dream fell apart

  A partnership with Kroger was meant to prove Ocado’s business model — it may instead be the British group’s undoing

  
• November 22 2025
  UK energy

  UK start-up Fuse Energy nears new funding at $5bn valuation

  Company founded by former Revolut executives was valued at $1bn at a fundraise earlier this year

  
• November 21 2025
  BBC

  BBC board member resigns

  Shumeet Banerji said to be unhappy about Tim Davie’s exit and the board’s response to corporation’s latest crisis

  
• November 21 2025
  News in-depthUK banks

  British banks have bounced back, but are they now a tax target?

  UK lenders have hit post-crisis highs, which has generated anxiety over a potential tax raid

  
• November 21 2025
  Investments

  Directors’ Deals: Rose and Jansen back WPP’s turnaround plans 

  Under-pressure shares boosted by takeover speculation

  
• November 21 2025
  WH Smith PLC

  Watchdog weighs probe of PwC over WHSmith profit overstatement

  Revenue errors in retailer’s accounts prompt latest scrutiny of Big Four accounting firm’s audits

  
• November 21 2025
  UK public finances

  UK borrowing overshoots expectations and retail sales dive before Budget

  Slowdown in private sector activity adds to signs of fragility in economy before Reeves’ tax rises next week

  
• November 21 2025
  UK energy

  Levies push up energy price cap despite fall in wholesale costs

  Ofgem nudges up price cap after Labour election pledge to bring down household bills

  
• November 20 2025
  Blackstone Group LP

  Blackstone targets £1bn sale of Birmingham’s NEC

  Deal to sell events complex would mark latest exit by US private equity firm from UK leisure industry

  
• November 20 2025
  Champions League

  Paramount makes surprise knockout bid for UK Champions League rights

  US media group shocks sports rights market with European football push

  
• November 20 2025
  Accountancy

  Big Four partner promotions sink to five-year low in UK

  Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC bosses strive to protect profits amid slowing revenues

  
• November 20 2025
  InterviewTelecoms

  Vodafone chief bets on selling AI and cyber security to businesses

  Chief executive Margherita Della Valle says telecoms group is back on the front foot after selling European assets

  
• November 20 2025
  Asda Group

  Asda raises almost £600mn in supermarket sell-off

  Private equity-owned retailer plans to use proceeds from asset sale to help settle debt to previous owner Walmart

  
• November 19 2025
  Lloyd's of London

  Lloyd’s investigates promotion of female executive close to then-CEO

  Insurance marketplace calls in lawyers to probe potential failings days after collapse of John Neal’s appointment to AIG

  
• November 19 2025
  UK foreign policy

  UK offers 1% of Brussels’ €6.7bn demand to join EU defence fund

  Move raises doubts about whether deal can be done before November 30 deadline

  
• November 19 2025
  Retail sector

  WHSmith boss resigns after presiding over US accounting errors

  Carl Cowling steps down as retailer discloses worse than expected hit to profits from discrepancies in its US business

  
• November 19 2025
  UK equities

  UK seeks to revive dwindling stock market with single source of data

  FCA says ‘consolidated tape’ for equities will bring benefits worth £100mn over next decade

  
• November 19 2025
  Primary Health Properties PLC

  NHS landlord lines up bankers for £700mn sale

  Rothschild to advise Primary Health Properties on offloading portfolio of hospitals

  
• November 19 2025
  Brothers’ little helper: why are investors losing faith in Pharmanovia?

  Junked debt, management churn, botched accounting and family ties have spelt trouble for Basildon’s leading drugmaker

  
• November 19 2025
  Argentina

  Hedge funds’ bets on Argentina pay off after US bailout

  Emerging market and distressed debt specialists post big returns after Washington’s support and electoral win boost Buenos Aires

  
• November 19 2025
  British Steel Ltd

  UK government to line up bankers for British Steel sale

  Plan comes seven months after emergency legislation allowed for taxpayer-backed takeover

  
• November 19 2025
  UK defence spending

  No return to ‘hollowed out’ UK armed forces, defence secretary to say

  John Healey to defend government’s military spending priorities as report raises concerns about readiness

  
• November 18 2025
  Ocado Group PLC

  Ocado shares sink after key customer Kroger scales back partnership

  US grocer announces plans to close warehouses in blow to credibility of UK company’s tech licensing business