Britain’s antitrust watchdog, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), has thwarted more deals than its European counterpart over the past five years, as antitrust screening tempers the pace of mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Average UK…
Star Wars Day is an opportunity to meditate on what businesses can learn from the Jedi about harnessing the power of new technology, says Nigel Vaz “Train yourself to let…
When Dublin’s Croke Park and Toulouse’s Le Stadium play hosts to this weekend’s Investec Champions Cup semi-finals, it’ll mark a bumper weekend of attendance figures for European rugby’s governing body…
REIGNING champion jockey Zac Purton, who has been champion on six previous occasions, could reach another milestone in Hong Kong on Sunday, when he has good prospects of reaching his…
SURFACE conditions will once again ride soft when racing gets underway with an 11-race programme, featuring the Group Three Queen Mother Memorial Cup (9.05am) over a mile-and-a-half, at Sha Tin…
HSBC shareholders have waved through the lender’s proposal to remove the current bonus cap and set a new one, paving the way for it to hand massive payouts to hundreds…
As the salary war in the legal market battles on, magic circle law firm Freshfields has just increased its newly qualified (NQ) lawyers’ salaries to £150,000. Last November every magic…
When the peloton departs Venaria Reale in Turin for the first stage of the Giro d’Italia, there’s more than just the pink jersey riding on it for Geraint Thomas and…
The Qatari prime minister sold his Mayfair mansion to a fellow member of the Gulf state’s royal family last year, in what was one of the most lucrative property deals…
HSBC dished out roughly $19bn (£15.1bn) to shareholders last year and expects hefty payouts to continue in 2024, its management has said, as Europe’s biggest bank looks to weather economic…