The British electricity grid has entered a fraught chapter as investigations unfold into claims that staff at the state backed operator concealed evidence of grid instability during a scorching June
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The latest chapter in London’s long-running saga about the resilience of its listed companies unfolds around Segro, the property group built on factories, warehouses and a growing portfolio of data
British American Tobacco and North Korea have in recent weeks become the focal point of a mounting inquiry into how multinational businesses handle sanctions, disclosure, and the complex terrain of
In the annals of modern European banking, Revolut’s latest appointment marks more than a routine leadership shuffle. It signals a deliberate strategy by a fintech group that began as a
The late stage results for Wainua, AstraZeneca’s cardiovascular hopeful, have unleashed a fresh wave of reassessment about the company’s strategy, its reliance on a few big bets, and the fragility
A quiet threshold has been crossed in Britain’s car market, one that tells its own story about price, policy and a shifting global balance of industrial power. In June, registrations
The government has decided that the old tools are no longer enough for a problem that has grown both larger and harder to see. From next year, the Insolvency Service
In the ritual theatre of the Nasdaq MarketSite, where founders pose for photographs beside the ticker and investors try to read a company’s future in the first minutes of trading,
When an asset manager the size of Aviva Investors decides to pick a public fight with a board, it is rarely about theatrics. It is about price. In the contest
PwC’s decision to base its next main London office in Canary Wharf is being read, with some justification, as another vote of confidence in a district that has spent the
There are moments in modern capitalism when a company’s most valuable product is not its code, its user base, or even its revenue prospects, but its positioning. In Silicon Valley,
When a company as large and historically secure as Volkswagen begins to contemplate cutting as many as 100,000 jobs worldwide, the tremor is felt far beyond its own payroll. This
Michael Platt is not a man given to casual complaint. The BlueCrest founder has spent more than two decades in a rarefied corner of finance where grievance is usually expressed
Brompton has spent half a century refining an idea that once looked almost eccentric: that a bicycle could be not merely a machine for leisure or sport, but a piece
Britain’s car industry has delivered an unusually blunt message to the new Labour government: the transition to electric motoring is in danger of being mishandled, and the price of getting
For thousands of British small businesses, the run-up to Christmas is not simply a busy quarter but the period on which the rest of the year quietly depends. Cash flow
