UBS pushes back against investor call to leave Switzerland

Pressure grows on country’s largest bank amid political calls for tougher capital requirements

Posted on Thursday October 01, 2026

UK house prices fall as higher mortgage rates ‘subdue’ market

Prospect of interest rate rises weighs on demand for properties

Posted on Thursday October 01, 2026

King’s bank Coutts hit with new lawsuit after ‘debanking’

Shipping executive Philip Adkins sues lender over claims it kept dossier of inaccurate information that sparked US probe

Posted on Thursday October 01, 2026

UBS should make the positive case for staying Swiss

Too much doom-mongering may be bad for the bank’s business

Posted on Thursday October 01, 2026

EU questions Binance over continued operations despite wind-down order

Securities regulators looking at use of legal exemption by world’s biggest crypto exchange

Posted on Thursday October 01, 2026

Accenture shares surge as consultancy boosts sales

Firm reports full-year revenues of $74.2bn despite fears of hit to sector from AI

Posted on Thursday October 01, 2026

Burnham’s wake-up call to the right

Those who oppose big-state socialism have never been more in need of a strong Conservative Party and rarely further from having one

Posted on Thursday October 01, 2026

Global bond sell-off pushes 10-year Treasury yield to highest since 2002

Sovereign debt costs around world return to multiyear highs

Posted on Thursday October 01, 2026

An AI sovereign wealth fund isn’t progressive — it’s techno-imperialism

Accruing income at home from land and power abroad has an old name: empire

Posted on Thursday October 01, 2026

Flydubai scare revives Israel’s hijacking trauma

Air travel for Israelis has been shaped by a long and painful history of assaults on planes

Posted on Thursday October 01, 2026