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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Former employees of ICAP, Rabobank, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Deutsche Bank and UBS were among 22 names that the UK Serious Fraud Office included as alleged co-conspirators on a draft indictment ...

Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli, Stefano Sassi of Valentino, Gildo Zegna of Ermenegildo Zegna, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, Giorgio Armani and Remo Ruffini of Moncler made their way to a ...