Charterhouse Capital Partners has highlighted private equity groups' increasing appetite for the education sector after agreeing to pay $2bn for SkillSoft, a US teaching software provider. The ...

Southeastern Asset Management, which worked with Carl Icahn on his tilt at Dell, has become the largest voting shareholder in News Corp after Rupert Murdoch, prompting questions about its intentions ...

Business groups have warned against a Scottish National party plan to raise the minimum wage at least in line with inflation, if Scotland votes for independence. Announced last year and included in ...

Cyber security provider Tanium has become one of the largest ever investments made by Andreessen Horowitz, as part of efforts to raise more money to expand outside the US. Tanium's technology has been ...

A Singapore trader fired by Royal Bank of Scotland for allegedly manipulating the London interbank lending rate has dropped his lawsuit for wrongful dismissal. RBS said on Wednesday that no payments ...

Saudi Arabia says suspected militants who attacked Shia worshippers earlier this month were linked to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, known as Isis, in the first acknowledgment of a domestic ...

James Healy-Pratt, head of the aviation department at the legal firm Stewarts Law in London, estimates that Allianz could eventually pay out as much as €300m.

The Bank of Japan has stepped up its efforts to boost the flow of cash around the world's third-largest economy, tweaking its loan-support programme in the hope of encouraging debt-wary companies and ...

Brian Hunter, the natural gas trader whose large bets helped precipitate the $6bn collapse of Amaranth, the hedge fund, has agreed to pay $750,000 to settle attempted market manipulation charges.

A push by BHP Billiton, the world's biggest resource company by market value, to have coking coal prices set by an index-based pricing system has encountered further resistance. BHP has been ...

Shanghai's stock market notched up its worst fall in more than six years on Monday as China's biggest securities brokerages were hit by a crackdown on margin lending, an engine of the frenzied rise in ...

The package of new powers promised to Scotland contains "enormous potential" to create grievance between London and Edinburgh, an influential UK parliamentary committee has warned. The cross-party ...