Artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic is in early talks to more than double its valuation to more than $150bn in a new funding round, giving it additional firepower to keep pace with rivals ...

“All the banks were lying about their borrowing costs,” Hayes says, claiming they were doing so on the instruction of ...

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has said she will meet US President Donald Trump on Sunday, raising hopes ...

The UK’s financial watchdog has fined H2O Asset Management’s former deputy chief executive £1mn and banned him from the financial services industry for providing deliberately misleading information.

Since taking office last year Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government has been under pressure from Reform UK over its handling of immigration and asylum claims. This week, deputy prime minister Angela ...

That widespread recognition is increasingly important when you are dependent on the whims of Google for your place in search rankings, and if you are a portal connecting buyers with sellers, as Mony ...

Away from the cameras, Trump was more polite and respectful, according to people familiar with the matter. Fed officials were also reassured by remarks that he was not going to fire Powell over the ...

To compete, regional banks need to join forces. This week, Pinnacle Financial Partners and Synovus Financial, two sizeable players in the US south-east, became the latest to team up. Calculated on its ...

In parts of central and north-western India, continuous rainfall since June has also claimed an estimated 120 lives. Southern and western parts of China have been hit by mudslides, with urgent ...

The comedian’s ousting ahead of Paramount’s $8bn sale to Skydance raises concerns about political interest in US media ...

Sentiment is improving in areas of the European commercial property market, and certain director dealings reflect this. Step forward Ben Habib, chief executive of First Property, former deputy leader ...

Lossmaking Scottish golf resort is no closer to hosting the tournament 11 years after it was bought by the US president ...