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Dominic Chappell

Pension regulator to prosecute Dominic Chappell over BHS collapse

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By Gaurav Sharma

Chappell bought BHS for just £1 in 2015 from billionaire retailer Sir Philip Green.

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George Osborne wants Theresa May to revive his Northern Powerhouse plan

London Evening Standard editor urged the prime minister to commit to high speed rail in the north.

By Ian Silvera

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Sports Direct

Mike Ashley's Sports Direct increases stake in Debenhams to 21%

Business tycoon has been building up his stake in the department store since 2014.

9 hours ago

By Gaurav Sharma

Philip Hammond

UK government posts first July budget surplus since 2002

More money from tax receipts led to the first summer surplus in 15 years.

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By Gaurav Sharma

UK workers

Nearly a fifth of older people 'unhappy at work', shows new study

Under-appreciation, stress and poor work-life balance among reasons behind dissatisfaction in work place.

By Karthick Arvinth

BHP Billiton

BHP Billiton swings to annual profit and unveils plans to sell US shale business

Anglo-Australian giant was forced to book a $7.2bn writedown in shale operations last year.

By Dan Cancian

London shopper

UK supermarket sales dampened by cold weather

Sales increase 2.5% compared to a year earlier in August.

By Karthick Arvinth

Car scrappage scheme

Ford launches £2,000 car scrappage scheme

Drivers can get up to £7,000 off a Ford Transit when they trade in an old vehicle.

By Dan Cancian

McDonald's to close 169 restaurants in India over franchise dispute

The US fast food chain has ended its franchise agreement with a local partner, putting thousands of jobs at risk.

By Karthick Arvinth

Hans Rudolf Woehrl

German tycoon Hans Rudolf Wöhrl enters suitors queue for Air Berlin

Entrepreneur says he's interested in buying 'all' of the beleaguered airline and run it as an independent carrier.

By Gaurav Sharma

Johnson & Johnson

Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay Eva Echeverria $417m over ovarian cancer talc case

The award is the latest in expensive lawsuits for the company.

By Brendan Cole

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Flat White Coffee Millenials

Follow the myth of millennial marketing at your own peril

By Iqbal Wahhab

US dollar bills

Indebted USA: Taxpayers' debt per American family is worryingly close to $1m

By Iris Mack

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick

An Uber mess: Travis Kalanick vs Benchmark Capital tussle turning increasingly ugly

By Gaurav Sharma

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Andy Goode

Not your average default swap: Ex-England star Andy Goode on his switch from rugby to currency trading

By Dan Cancian

Sam Smith FinnCap

'AIM-ing' high: Why FinnCap CEO Sam Smith is upbeat on UK Plc

By Gaurav Sharma

Eduardo Leite

London's legal market will thrive after Brexit, says Baker McKenzie's Chairman Emeritus

By Gaurav Sharma

Bob Dudley BP

Era of $100 oil price was an aberration says BP's Bob Dudley

By Gaurav Sharma

FinTech

ibm

IBM enlists Walmart, Nestlé, Unilever, Dole for food safety blockchain

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By Ian Allison

Ripple Interview

'Big Tech', not fintech, causing greatest disruption to traditional finance

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By Gaurav Sharma

R3 and Synechron collaborate on phase 2 of corporate KYC

By Ian Allison

IG Markets trading floor

IG Group launches trading on cryptocurrency Ethereum

By Gaurav Sharma

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Boutique UK fintech firm Prodigy Finance raises $240m in funding

By Gaurav Sharma

flextrade

FlexTrade launches best execution platform with MiFID II in mind

By Ian Allison

Artificial intelligence DeepMind Google

Deep learning can read the tea leaves in market data

By Ian Allison

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