In the quest for influence in Donald Trump’s Washington, Brian Ballard is becoming a go-to figure, elbowing aside rivals as companies and organisations seek access to the famously transactional ...

Shareholders have already approved a pay increase for British American Tobacco chief executive Tadeu Marroco. He could receive up to $24.1mn if the company boosts its profitability and if its share ...

EDF owns seven advanced gas-cooled reactors (AGRs) plants in the UK, which were built between the 1960s and 1980s and differ ...

Countries including the US, South Korea and Nigeria offer hefty rewards to insiders who uncover wrongdoing. Could the UK ...

Not unpredictably, the dials are remarkable. One named Kaleidoscope is a mosaic of lapis lazuli, turquoise, tsavorite and ...

And it’s 12 points from us for the charming Swiss city that’s top of the scoreboard for carousing, cuisine and culture (not to mention fountain swimming) ...

Among other dangers, stripping these agencies of their independence drives investors in Treasury bonds away and even threatens to upend an agreement that allows European Economic Area residents and ...

Sir Keir Starmer and Ursula von der Leyen will on Thursday finalise plans for a new defence pact, US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent has accused the IMF and World Bank of “mission creep” and Boeing ...

Yana Peel, global head of arts and culture at the fashion brand, describes the initiative as the fund’s “most ambitious partnership in Europe” and a continuation of its aim to support “avant-garde and ...

Rocket launches are now a private sector race between billionaires who can write their own cheques. If Bezos wants to send celebrities into space he is free to do so — even if it fails to ignite ...

A court in Ivory Coast ’s commercial capital of Abidjan this week ruled Thiam — who returned to Ivorian politics in 2023 after leaving Credit Suisse following a corporate espionage scandal — should be ...

The MicroStrategy copycat is just the first in a series of Cantor Spacs. It has raised two other Spacs that are currently searching for deals with Brandon Lutnick as its chief executive. Cantor has ...