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‘International Manager’ programme closed to new recruits as CEO Georges Elhedery reshapes Europe’s largest lender

Joint venture would have brought together two of Europe’s biggest investment groups

Fund managers predict inflows to venture capital trusts could halve

Dutch payments group aims to create new European fintech

Lenders concerned they could be at significant risk of potential lawsuits from Moscow

Europe’s top banking watchdog says current regulation is too cumbersome and risks backfiring

If Reits want to stay independent, they can’t just wait around for markets to lift everybody

CPPIB chief John Graham says institutional investors should ‘know what you’re buying’

Nik Storonsky is demanding and disruptive but he is building a world-leading bank

Neobank wants to put its £12bn of deposits to more profitable use

One of the largest middlemen in car parts group’s debt raisings close to a deal with Marblegate Asset Management

Peter Rutland, who heads financial services buyouts for Amsterdam-listed firm, will take up position

Financial services bosses have been pressing governments over bloc’s slow progress in loosening rules on the sector

Nikhil Rathi says UK financial regulator will encourage more lending to small businesses

Regulators highlight concerns after listings boom in territory

Financial Reporting Council to examine two individuals and firm itself over ‘unauthorised’ auditors’ reports

Private equity wanted democratisation. The courts may deliver it.

Plus, the law firm that sued over Musk’s pay faces a revolt and a bank scandal sends shockwaves through Brazil’s finance sector

Conservatives returned funds in July from private German bank given ‘in good faith’

Most of our friends are doing it

Todd Combs rose from a Florida state university to Berkshire Hathaway before taking the helm of a new $10bn security fund

Wave of M&A fuels rally as big pharma groups hunt for blockbusters ahead of patent cliff

Banks and asset managers back government campaign to boost retirement pots and funnel money into economy

Companies linked to financier owe property moguls £130mn for mortgage on Leconfield House

Lending booms in developing economies even as US industry struggles following collapse of First Brands