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Central bank plans to ease capital requirements in an effort to shift home lending back to banks, top official says

Former Melrose boss Simon Peckham wants to continue with the ‘buy, improve, sell’ model as company heads for FTSE 250

For rankings to really matter, they should improve the end-product

Thousands of investors in failed lender participating in legal challenge to its 2023 takeover

Lenders’ rising profits make international mergers more attractive despite regulatory hurdles

Some operators are taking more risk on their balance sheets and moving reserves between sites

Plus, UK wealth shares drop, fears of a credit bubble and Pulp at End of the Road

Entrepreneurs behind food delivery start-up sue Gulf sovereign wealth fund in London

Third Point and DE Shaw attack real estate data group’s multibillion-dollar bet on lossmaking listings site Homes.com

Sectors including wealth management and trucking have been hit with sudden share price declines

CEOs each earned more than $40mn as gap with median bank worker set to widen further

From luddite businesses to those that rely on workers who’ve lost their jobs, the new technology spares no one

Along with SG Warburg, the asset manager played a pivotal role in London’s financial growth

The UK bank has too often been seen to put all its eggs in one basket

If anyone should be ashamed of this crime, it’s the social media platforms

Head of Wall Street bank calls attorney a ‘tremendous’ person hours after she quit over links to Jeffrey Epstein

Some of the world’s most influential asset managers are upset about a dog-eat-dog culture they helped to create

Barclays chief collected £15mn last year, with Lloyds and NatWest leaders pocketing £7.4mn and £6.6mn respectively

Following a surge of building metamorphoses intended to help reduce the UK’s housing shortage, a complex web of issues, resentments and flaws in the system is stalling new energy

Central bank researchers suggest patchwork of national regulation risks ‘supervisory blind spots’

Zhang Xin was one of the few developers able to extricate her wealth from China and rebuild elsewhere

UK high street lender this week agreed to buy one of the country’s largest wealth managers, Evelyn Partners

BAT is the latest London-listed company where succession is an issue

Asset manager is ending its listed life with a whimper rather than a bang

The asset manager was among the last holdouts in the City of London to remain under UK ownership