Wall Street’s big private capital problem

Plus, Victory boosts bid for Janus, private capital’s financing wheeze and Giant hits Broadway

Posted on Monday March 23, 2026

The Shakespearean animus of Botín and Orcel

The Italian’s bid for Commerzbank may prove to be the final act in European banking’s rivalrous drama

Posted on Monday March 23, 2026

BNP Paribas surges up UK M&A rankings

French bank boosted by deals including £9.9bn Schroders takeover

Posted on Monday March 23, 2026

UK home insurers to lose money on underwriting in 2026, analysis predicts

Higher fuel and energy costs, along with wage and price pressures, will drive up claims costs, EY says

Posted on Monday March 23, 2026

The ghost bankers haunting the City

Unable to leave the financial district, some senior staff appear to be working long after handing in their pass

Posted on Monday March 23, 2026

London ambulances set on fire in suspected antisemitic incident

Police treating arson attack on vehicles belonging to charity organisation in north London as a hate crime

Posted on Monday March 23, 2026

Gilts: blame the hedge funds?

No one’s doing it like the Brits

Posted on Monday March 23, 2026

Qatar Airways parks long-haul jets in storage in Spain

Transfer of planes to Teruel airport signals airline is preparing for ongoing Gulf conflict

Posted on Monday March 23, 2026

Trump’s Iran playbook was written in the 1980s

From oil threats to ultimatums, the US president has a decades-old view of how to confront Tehran

Posted on Monday March 23, 2026

America keeps bailing out Trump

The country’s underlying strengths are absorbing his erratic choices, including the war on Iran

Posted on Monday March 23, 2026