Back to school: meet PE’s new headmasters
Top European private capital firms have fresh leadership
Posted on Wednesday September 02, 2026AI sounds the death knell for audit fee inflation
Companies’ audit bills increased less than 2% last year, broadly in line with inflation
Posted on Wednesday September 02, 2026Mbappé-backed health start-up expands to west Africa
Deal to buy Senegalese insurer Tanel comes months after fundraising valued France’s Alan at €5.5bn
Posted on Wednesday September 02, 2026Bond yields keep rising after the Fed chair’s Jackson Hole speech
Posted on Tuesday September 01, 2026Swiss finance minister hits out at move to water down UBS capital plans
Karin Keller-Sutter criticises lawmakers for compromise proposal ‘in favour of the bank and against taxpayers’
Posted on Tuesday September 01, 2026US launches further strikes on Iran as conflict flares up
Escalation pushes oil prices higher and sends Treasury yields to day’s highs as investors fret over new bout of inflation
Posted on Wednesday September 02, 2026The wheels are coming off the US world order
Trump believes in a world in which there are no allies, only satellites, and in which power is America’s alone to wield
Posted on Wednesday September 02, 2026‘Plan 2’ graduates earning less than £45,000 are unlikely to clear debts
Government data will add to calls for reform of tuition fee system in England
Posted on Wednesday September 02, 2026The prime minister’s style is clashing with Japan’s traditions — and the bond market
Posted on Wednesday September 02, 2026China derails consensus on communiqué after US-hosted G20
Beijing objects to language calling for elimination of ‘non-market’ policies to curb trade imbalances
Posted on Tuesday September 01, 2026